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"Doing what?" he asked as he turned to look at her.

"Tapping your feet in the floor of the carriage" he had been doing that for a while and she was generally curious and it was disturbing the peace of the carriage and it was disturbing the peace of the carriage. He grinned and looked at her chest.

"It's the beating of your heart when your flustered and when you're not, it beats so fast when you're flustered but so slow on normal occasions " she bit her lower lip to avoid the smile forming on her lips and only replied with a small 'o' on her lips.

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"What are we doing here?" the carriage had stopped at the center of the town, Cunningham.

"Come with me I'll tell you" he held her hand and led her through the small crowds of people. The population had already reduced since the faucet was over. They arrived at a bar and he led her to upper floor where very few people were.

"I need you to show me the faces that you saw that night and most especially the person who caused that red mark on your cheek" he sat her on the small but comfy chairs while she looked down to see some of the men from that night laughing loudly after spanking some girl in the ass.

Immediate fear filled her body such that she grew weak and her hold on Klaus tightened. Tears fought to fill her eyes but she fought harder and kept staring at them.

"Hey don't worry, am here" he assured and squatted in front of her.

"Is this your place?" her voice was small and almost unrecognizable.

"It's my brothers, now show me"

"You have a brother?"

"One brother and a sister" after she drank a glass of water ,she relaxed. She was with Klaus , nothing would happen to her she was safe.

She pointed first at Douglas ,he had bullied her more than once and he was the one who found her and she was pretty sure he was the one who led the people ,then at the other one who had slapped her. The effects of the slap still lingered.

"Was Douglas the one who slapped you or the other one?"

"Other one" she could see the silent fury in his eyes.

"Am sure there were more" he suggested placing his elbows on his wide spread knees after leaving from his squatting position. Then she lost focus and started admiring him, especially his sitting posture which made him look like some sort of king.

Currently the king to her heart.

"Focus Aella" she blushed when he turned to look at her.

"The rest just abused and called me names but didn't hurt me before you arrived"

"Yes, I want all of them" the hard look he wore made her point to them all with no hesitation.

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She fell for the nth time that morning. Her elbows already hurt from falling on the cold hard floor. She could feel the looks of people from around the training ground but when she turned to look at them they all looked away. Was there a problem with how she had put on her pants.

"Go treat your wounds" even her knees had marks. Her trainer, Ozark was fed up and tired of her yet he was good easy on her at the time. She couldn't even remember the last time she had trained or even tried out her combat skills.

She walked to the small dispensary and met a few others. She hadn't even talked to most of the other students mostly because most of them gave her pitiful looks and others some nasty glares.

What was the pity for? or it's because she was too young.

Her dreams or nightmares had been become more violent now that her father had died. The wolves would now be in large numbers as they chased her but after looking back she found herself in the red lake with blood stained hands.

"Aren't you scared?" she heard a voice ask.

"Huh?"

"You're not scared of them wolves?" her brows furrowed in confusion, "in this place, even after they lied to you ,you still came back?" the girl who was almost her age asked again leaning on the wall from where she sat.

"Who lied?"

"They didn't tell you did they?" she asked again and she shook her head.

"Tell me what?" what in the world was she talking about.

"Sorry, it's not my in place to tell you" the girl who she recognized as Bethany walked away leaving her confusion. She walked back to the training ,the trainees had increased.

All the eyes that turned to look at her made her feel uncomfortable. Ozark gestured for them to continue. She threw her first punch at him and he missed it but he got the second one but she also received a blow that made her fall down.

She looked around and found all eyes looking at her , something was definitely out of place.

"Ozark tell me why they're staring at me like that" she asked as she looked carefully at Ozark's facial expressions.

"Just let them be and focus" he was avoiding it , clearly. Bethany's words came back at her and she looked at her through the side eye.

What hadn't she been told?

"Tell me Ozark" she ordered and now all the attention was at her.

"I can't" he looked down and dropped his hands to the side , even the rest of them looked down except Bethany.

There was something about Bethany that was different but she would deal with it later after figuring out what they were hiding.

She stood and walked to go to her Aunt's place.

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