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.

allowed her to undergo surgery to recover, and

it broke away from Peace's Embrace, but

him.

given her a new life when

you trying to

for breath, but the smile remained on

She couldn't reject him.

the flowerbed for support as he got up, but

him as he walked toward his

the streetlights, Leia looked down at their linked

an instant, a blush tinted her cheeks, and

was holding Avery's

held her hand and also the first time

brightly lit, and it

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

to take a seat. "Do you still drink

When he took her in back then, she had insisted on

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

took a carton of strawberry yogurt from the fridge, shaking it. "I don't have milk with

yogurt do?"

she felt her heart turning

to the strawberry flavor

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