Grace Martinez
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As soon as Claudius left, Evie headed over to Queen Beatrice's room. Her guard, Alvion, bowed when he saw her and naturally allowed her to enter into the room. The three noble ladies that were part of the entourage and who accompanied Queen Beatrice were also there, watching her closely. Evie now realized just how protected Queen Beatrice was. As she looked at her beautiful sleeping face, Evie smiled. She looked so peaceful and even more youthful in her sleep. No wonder King Belial loved her so. No…-
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Claudius scratched his head as he laughed a little sheepishly. "Of course not, Queen. I just thought that it wasn't quite the right time for me to show up and introduce myself to you at that time." His smile widened. "After all, you needed to meet with Queen Beatrice first, right? How could I jump the queue?" "And you think that this is now the right time for you to finally show up?" "Yes, since I saw you looking quite a bit troubled. May I know what's causing you to be so vexed, Young Queen?"…
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When Gideon just returned her stare at her with his own placid and perfectly blank face, Evie rose, never averting her firm gaze from him. She was resolute on wanting to wrestle whatever details she could get from this dearest brother-in-law of hers. "Tell me…" Evie hesitated for a moment but then she lifted her chin and held his gaze with an even firmer intensity. She was giving him the full force of the eyes of a queen who did not know how to give up. "Is the plan you are talking about the one where…
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Evie swallowed then she straightened and took another deep sigh. When she felt a little calmer, she looked at Gideon again. "I saw something like a huge well," she started. "Hundreds… no… thousands of monsters I have never seen before were coming out of it. Then I…" her voice faltered a little. "I saw destruction. An immense destruction such as none have ever seen before… great wars… deaths… and then they – those monsters… they also reached the surface." Her voice choked and broke off at…
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Vera felt the atmosphere inside the room became extremely heavy, so heavy that it was becoming hard to breath. She could see there was something dark which seemed to be leaking out of his body and his eyes dilating. What was wrong with him? What had provoked him to behave this way? Did what she said incited something dangerous to blow up within him? She held her breath, waiting for what he would say next, never averting her gaze from those beautiful vibrant blue but coldly dangerous eyes. A thought just…
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"Leah… Leah…" he continued calling that name while his body shook like a leaf in the wind and his deep voice sounded as though it was drenched in so much sorrow that Vera could feel her own heart break without knowing why. Vera felt like she was breaking down as well since the moment he called that name out with his broken voice. And as he continued calling that name out, her heart kept on breaking like glass being hammered on again and again. She stayed very still, letting him hug her so tight as…
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When Gideon could not respond and just regarded her with an unblinking stare, the corner of Vera's lips lifted up ever so slightly. "You are… aren't you?" she said, looking at him in wonder, "I know you are." Her eyes twinkled, glimmering so breathtakingly like millions of tiny pale blue crystals. Her hand slowly reached out and she reverently ran her fingers down his face, the slight smile widening into a full blown one when he did not grab at her hand to stop her from establishing more physical…
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The shock was too much that Vera had a hard time believing it. Was this truly happening? Why would he be angry? No, that could not be… It was not like he… no, it must be because he was just disappointed that he thought someone else had… "And what… what are you going to do if I tell you?" Vera asked in a soft voice, her gaze scrutinizing him. Her heart was flip flopping between wanting to hope for more and shooting herself down to not expect too much. His jaws worked once again and for a long…
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Gideon could not seem to react after hearing her statement. He could not believe what he had just heard. Did she even understand what he had been trying to say? This girl. How could she… how could she still smile like this at him? It was clear as crystal to him that she was someone broken to the extreme. In fact, right now, she was still bleeding and in pain, filled with cuts and bruises on the inside. Yet she could still smile so dazzlingly and why… why was she looking at him like he was her…
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The first to snap out of it was Gideon. He was about to rise when Vera suddenly lunged forward and clung onto him. Her large eyes twinkled as they were still moistened from her earlier thoughts. But that look in her eyes only made Gideon freeze for a moment. He placed his palm over her forehead and when he felt that her temperature was no longer burning like the previous day, he sighed in relief. Somehow, he could not believe it. He was certain that his sly little sister-in-law was making a fool out of…
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