When the Family 210

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…

didn’t have a word for it.

Maybe-

A feeling that soothed the unrest

Family…

his sister,

His blood–related sister.

Jean, meanwhile, was calm.

to heart. Instead, she moved quickly to wash up, climbed into bed,

falling asleep, she sifted through her thoughts in the quiet of

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

wonder the organization had delivered their warning with such

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Choir had been noticed by the Secret Service–and at such an early, undeveloped

It sounded almost unreal.

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

Abyssal Choir survived this early threat? How

Something must have happened…

through the

had anyone else from

She doubted it.

would’ve made them all face interrogation together–forced them to

on her alone, that could

was the sole unlucky

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