Although she told herself that she wouldn't take it to heart, deep down inside she was secretly a little hurt.
It was never easy to be looked at like a monster, especially when you believed you had left those stares behind. Raelia thought she had escaped that kind of attention, but the more she tried to ignore the feeling, the more suffocating it beca.
She had hoped to leave those piercing, judgntal gazes in her past, but sohow, they had followed her even here.
"What if..."
Raelia didn't want to look. She was afraid of confirming her worst fears, but her head turned anyway, almost against her will. Slowly, her gaze rose toward the stands, and her eyes locked onto a young man with glowing amber eyes and tousled blonde hair.
But instead of the disgust and fear that hung on the faces of the other trainees, his face held sothing entirely different—an excited and radiant smile.
It was t he kind of smile that made her breath catch, so brilliant that even the sun seed to pale in comparison.
"What did I expect from soone like him?" she thought, half-smiling despite herself.
There was no trace of fear or hesitation in his eyes, only a wide-eyed curiosity. It wasn't the cold, cautious interest of others, but sothing warr, sothing—more genuine.
He looked at her as if he saw sothing fascinating, sothing magnificent, It was as if the idea of her being a monster had never even crossed his mind.
For Raelia, in that mont, Aiden's presence was light, one bright and warm that could chase away any darkness just by being near it.
For a mont, even Raelia herself was caught off guard. But it only lasted for a short while before a beautiful smile finally blood on her face.
As Raelia had this feeling a bright golden light fell front the arena and wrapped around her body
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