2
The System’s endless warnings were not an exaggeration.
The moment I arrived, I tried everything I could just to get a glimpse of Reik
Rek was dressed head–to–toe in black, a heavy coat draped over his shoulders.
He never once glanced in my direction.
from a distance. But the hulking bodyguards trailing him spotted me instantly.
standing outside the school gates, waiting for his son.
I stared at the sharp, cold lines of his profile, and a strange, uncontrollable emotion bloomed in my chest. It was a sorrow so profound it brought tears to my eyes.
I stood there, frozen by this inexplicable wave of grief, not even noticing his bodyguards closing in.
A sharp, searing pain shot through my body as I was thrown hard against a brick wall.
One of the guards, his face a mask of brutal indifference, tossed a threat at me before leaving. “Don’t look at things you’re not supposed to see.”
He gave my pathetic, crumpled form on the ground a final, cold sweep,
“Next time, it won’t be this simple.
