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Cassia stared at Kwon Oh-Jin with her jaw dropped. She didn’t say it out loud, but the look she was giving him said, “You’re the last person who has the right to say that.”
“Why would you go so far for someone like me?” she asked.
She wasn’t oblivious enough to not know that his excuse about her “not liking his face” wasn’t the real reason.
Cassia clutched her chest, tightening with guilt so heavy it felt like her insides were burning. A clear tear slid down her snow-pale cheek. The feeling of being protected by someone else felt so foreign and strange that it triggered her to her core.
Ridiculous as it was, her heart pounded wildly even in this dire moment, and she flushed hot. If she had to name what was welling up in her chest in one word… it would be happiness.
How pathetic.
She cursed at herself.
There was no worse shame than to feel happiness while being protected by the very man she had betrayed. The disgust at herself nearly made her retch.
“Why… are you protecting someone...
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