When They Beg, I Rise!

Lemira caught sight of Lucian and Alaric making their entrance, but her reaction was nothing out of the ordinary.

She calmly addressed Michel, "Let's schedule another time then."

Michel nodded and turned to face Alaric, "Come on, if I had a sister with talent like hers, I'd be treating her like gold, waiting on her hand and foot. And here you are, fussing over a newbie 'sister' while neglecting the real deal with actual talent. It's like missing the forest for the trees."

Alaric's face turned a shade of steel blue, "Shut up! You know nothing!"

He wasn't sidelining Lemira!

He wanted nothing more than for Lemira to stay with SkyBlaze and compete in the finals!

It's just a small tiff between him and his sister.

After Michel left, other eager coaches approached Lemira, handing out their business cards.

Alaric was left on the sidelines, silently watching Lemira being treated like a star.

He thought to himself: If Lemira ignores these people and doesn't join the Reapers.

He would swallow his pride and not hold it against her for playing him.

Lemira collected a stack of business cards, more than

after the crowd had dispersed,

noticed that Lemira had changed a

at Lucian,

you still haven't answered my question. Why keep it

noticing the unease

was Alaric

tell you after the last exam, but do you remember what you said in my room

but it struck Alaric like a sharp

that day and was immediately

his words were then, the

reddened, "Then why didn't you

had no

you

stepped in front of Lemira, "I'm your brother. I thought the conflicts

could have just corrected me. Why

had spoken up that day, none of this

have gone to