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,

broke away from

him.

given her a new life

exactly are you trying to

breath, but the smile remained on his face. "Can

She couldn't reject him.

the flowerbed for support as he got up, but he never let

with him as he walked toward

glow of the streetlights, Leia looked down

blush tinted her cheeks, and her heart

was holding Avery's

time Avery had held her hand and also the first

brightly lit, and it

wouldn't run

Leia to take a

face turned redder. When he took her in back then, she had insisted on drinking strawberry

every day.

"You remembered."

"Yes."

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

yogurt do?"

and she felt her heart turning warm. "Thank

used to the

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