When Leia spotted Avery, she subconsciously tried to escape, but Avery had already noticed her.

"Begonia."

The word drifted toward Leia in the night breeze.

The woman's voice on the other end of the line sounded a little panicky. "Did someone approach you?

Who are you with right now?"

"I'll contact you later." Leia hung up and quickly ran away. She was given mechanical legs, so she ran

faster than a normal human.

Avery wasn't feeling well, so he only ran after Leia for a little while before slumping onto the floor,

panting.

Unexpectedly, Leia turned back and ran back to him. She looked at him anxiously. "Are you okay?"

She had noticed him leaning against the flowerbed, so she thought that something happened to him.

Avery gripped her wrist. "Got you, Begonia."

Begonia was Leia's alias in Peace's Embrace.

Avery's voice was as gentle as always, and Leia had mixed feelings about that.

No one knew this, but Avery was the only salvation she had in her life.

Back then, when she ran away from the poor and desolate village, she encountered Avery.

He was the one who brought her back to Peace's Embrace for proper education.

had allowed her to undergo surgery to recover, and he had

on, she followed Toxic Hive as it broke away from Peace's Embrace, but she had

him.

had given her a new life when she

exactly are you

was gasping for breath, but the smile remained on his face.

She couldn't reject him.

got up, but

with him as he

the streetlights, Leia

instant, a blush tinted her cheeks, and her

was holding

her hand and also the first time she entered his personal

was simple and brightly lit, and it resembled

the door to make sure that Leia wouldn't run away, Avery let

he asked Leia to take a seat. "Do you still drink strawberry

face turned redder. When he took her in back then, she had

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

carton of strawberry yogurt from the fridge,

yogurt do?"

with both hands, and she felt

to the

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