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people were right. He was a monster and coul

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to face, not with the young man who had left, but with the superior

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calm down

hite and red triangular flags had been hung on strings around the town square. The women scurried about in their white gowns and the men in their white shirts and breeches. Uninteresting boo

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let eyes. The men had finally left her but she was stil

h she was being swayed by the light breeze. He noticed a large bump on the side of her

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u doing here, in a white gown? You can't possibly be ge

unity." Leila sighed as she sat beside him. "And he recr

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e was blotchy and his corneas shone b

eard the news

that I could be in his good books. How dare he just

hed. "And

vered and tears r

she would have to accept

each other. Why would the said gods want

entions with Iliana. Hopefully, one of them would be the ones to do the pairing. But if they choo

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u are. Do you know how many times people have told me that I cou

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nt you the woman

nd leaned on the