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Eugene’s footsteps halted as he looked up to give Theodore a casual glance. Theodore was taken aback. “Why are you looking at me like that?”

“Go back to your ward,” Eugene advised blankly. He looked away after saying that and slowly focused on Melanie. Eyes flickering slightly, he asked, “Did you arrive today?”

Melanie tightened the grip on her bag at the question. “I arrived last night.”

Eugene scoffed. “In quite a hurry, aren’t you?”

Melanie lowered her gaze. Steadying her voice, she asked him, “Why are you in Hearth City?”

She looked like she got herself together on the outside, but on the inside, she was a mess. Melanie did

not expect to meet Eugene in Hearth City and certainly had not anticipated him overhearing her conversation with Dylan.

She felt like she had been completely exposed and was very resistant about it.

Melanie had only ever introduced Eugene to her grandfather, and she rarely mentioned her parents.

back then, the most common excuse she used was that Melanie

up in an environment like that, she would not have turned out that

already sensed that something was amiss, he

“She’s an

shoulder bag, Melanie persisted, “Don’t you have

to begin with. She did not wear

lacked their usual color.

Theodore who replied to

be frightened

her heartbeat quicken as the

her throat.

has a big bump on her head.

and when she heard Dylan’s loud voice ringing in her

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several times in a row. Melanie felt her head spinning and swayed to

lip, she barely stabilized herself before managing to say to Dylan in a hoarse voice, “I just

saying, “That was

at her, feeling that suffocating

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