Chapter 1298:
Freya and Ellis walked in just as Nina stomped off. “What's going on?” Freya asked, puzzled.
“Jesse’s makingthink about my actions before a wall!” Nina pouted, but she stood by the wall anyway.
Both Freya and Ellis were confused.
Ellis frowned, looking between them. “Chere and tellwhat happened.”
Nina peeked at Jesse, then stayed put, facing the wall quietly.
For the first time, Jesse’s word outweighed Ellis’s.
Freya turned to Jesse. “What did she do?”
Jesse shrugged. “She said she wanted to reflect.”
Freya glanced at Nina, who nodded sadly. “Yeah, | wanted to.”
That only confused Freya and Ellis more.
Freya tried to call Nina over, but the little girl checked Jesse's face and stayed put.
In that moment, Freya saw it clearly: Jesse held sway over Nina like no one else.
Since neither kid would spill the beans, Freya and Ellis let it go. But they knew Nina must have done something
wrong, and Jesse was punishing her. After all, if Nina hadn't messed up, not even Jesse could have made her
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As his parents sat nearby, Jesse thought of something. “Mom?”
“Yes, honey?” Freya answered softly.
Jesse glanced at his dad, then asked, “How did you and Dad meet?”
Freya paused, her eyes meeting Ellis’s.
In that moment, her mind wandered back to a warm summer day long ago.
It was the sweltering peak of August.
Freya, alongside her friends, had thrown herself into the organization's rigorous selection trials. She had only just
turned seventeen.
Deep in the dense thicket of the assessment zone, Freya sprinted like a panther on the prowl, her body slicing
through the jungle heat.
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A gunshot shattered the air.
A blank round hissed past Freya. She carried no weapon—none of them were allowed to—so all she could rely on
was her raw agility.
Hidden among the trees, an observer
named Michael Miller arched 4 brow
and mrs beside him,
Fhd ir 's got smoves. Didn't
think she'd dodge that so cleanly.”
The man next to him, his face completely obscured by camouflage paint, remained silent. He was Ellis. At
twenty-three, he was one of the assessment’s commanding figures.
“Keep your eyes on the stragglers,”
Ellis instructed, his gaze logked en
Freya ag she toe Biedd His deep
vBice carried the lilt of youth, edged
with control. “I'll handle her.” The
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