Everyone, I know these are wrong chapters, please put up with them for two more days. Returning home due to severe sickness has gotten the better of me, I'll go back starting from 25 October, and i'll start updating all the stories regularly from there on.
She didn't answer.
It took every ounce of his willpower not to pull her into his arms and cancel the entire operation.
"I know you are... displeased," Kaelus continued, swallowing hard, the lie burning like acid on his tongue. "But your education cannot be neglected. The tutors I have provided are insufficient. The Academy will offer you the rigorous academic structure you require to cultivate your intellect."
'Liar,' Seraphina's inner child wept, her lower lip trembling violently. 'You're lying. You're sending me away because of the bad men. You promised you wouldn't leave me in the dark.'
But her adult mind forced the facade to hold. She had to be angry. If she showed him she understood, he would break.
