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Chapter 210 A Strange Feeling

Carl walked swiftly down the corridor.”

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The crisp night air filtered in through the ornate, vintage windows, brushing across his face and helping to cool the strange heat still lingering in his blood.

His steps came to a halt.

He looked up instinctively, catching sight of the full moon bathed in silvery frost.

He’d thought–long ago–that he was beyond the reach of emotions like this.

He should have been.

Years of ruthless self–discipline had honed him into something cold, distant, precise. A machine, void of sentiment.

And yet… something had slipped. A cog in the machine had turned the wrong way, and emotions had begun spinning wildly, out of his control.

Jean had eyes like clear glass, like a mirror. As if she could see right into him.

When he looked into her eyes, it felt like someone was quietly brushing the dust from his soul.

That strange feeling had taken root from that moment on–spreading from his chest like fire over dry grass.

And it was difficult to describe, this sensation…

for it. He

Maybe-

with warmth and sincerity by family. A feeling that soothed the unrest in his heart and gave rise to something almost

Family…

was his sister, after

His blood–related sister.

Jean, meanwhile, was calm.

didn’t take Carl’s cold words to heart. Instead, she moved quickly to wash up,

her thoughts in

the “external threat” discussed at today’s Abyssal Choir meeting… would

wonder the organization had delivered

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by the Secret

It sounded almost unreal.

powerhouse. But right now, they were a fledgling group. If the Secret Service truly wanted to, they

threat? How had it grown into

Something must have happened…

through the

to think of it, had anyone else from the Abyssal Choir been caught

She doubted it.

interrogation together–forced them to turn on one another. That

attention had been fixed on her alone, that could only

the sole unlucky