NA'S
oset. "Thank you for your 'gifts' over the past three ye
ways wore on his wrist. My tone turned mockingly sinc
ed upstairs to pack the only things that truly belonged to me
ere my mother's diaries and her jewelry design drafts from her youth. Her
sketches I had shelved long ago because they were dee
ssion a mix of duty and pity. "Luna... I mean, Ms. Hayes. The Alpha Kin
nothing in this box that Corbin Montgomery paid for. If
the watchful eyes of the est
ress-the place where Mar
y. Ever since Emmett was diagnosed with his immune system deficiency, a rare condition for a human
s kept a space for me. A tiny, south-facing independent b
ed, kept spotless by Martha. Above the bed hung a landscape paint
el the sensation of a brush dancing across my fingertips. That
my right hand three years ago, I hadn
ine and cheap soap filled my nose. It was the smell of home-
Perhaps, from the moment I agreed to my scumbag father's dema
y phone and di
when I thought it would disc
eaker: "Davina! Holy goddess! You finally remember to contact me?! If I didn't hear from you s
d at his roar, and a sliver
e sketches these new pups in my team produced are so garbage even an AI would reject them! The final design draft f
urve slowly formed on my lips, and the
address. I'
the computer screen-vivid, soulful, yet highly commercial-and
king like a man who had just cheated death. "I tell those pups to draw a butterfly, and they give me a muta
ed off the cap, and took a sip. The exhaustion be
ed jewelry designer in our class. Because of a toxic
to pick them up
ssing up," I laughe
treating you
st down-to-earth street-side food stall near his company. As n
ed over our respective struggles over the past three years, but Ca
it against mine, saying with genuine sinceri
Just seeing him makes my legs go weak; his aura is like the Grim Reaper himself. And you actually dared t
us tycoon 'M' in your stream who instantly bought out all your limited-edition stuff?
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