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Upon hearing the question, Ashley quickly turned to the café counter and asked for a pen and spaper. Once
they handed it over, she sat back down and started sketching in front of Freya.
Even after all the tshe’d spent with him, not once had she taken a photo—she never had the courage to. The
thought alone had felt too risky.
But his face was etched into her memory, like a mark she could never erase.
After ten tense minutes, a rough but recognizable sketch began to take shape beneath Ashley's pencil.
Freya's eyes narrowed, a shadow crossing her expression as she stared at the all-too-familiar face on the paper.
Her expression turned icy. Lifting a finger, she tapped the sketch right between the man’s brows. “Does he have
a scar here? About three centimeters long?”
Ashley’s hand stalled midair, the pencil hovering just above the paper. Her eyes widened in shock, pupils
shrinking. “How—how could you possibly know that?”
Freya's expression shifted in an instant—cool and serious, like a switch had flipped.
Without a word, she unlocked her phone, swiped through a few screens, and brought up a hidden photo. She
turned the screen toward Ashley. “Is this him?”
Ashley’s breath caught in her throat. Her eyes locked onto the image—his face, so familiar it could haunt her in
dreams. Her lips parted slightly. “Yes.”
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Nothing about this made sense.
Before Ashley could speak again, Freya cut in with a question that cout of nowhere. “Do you want a normal
life?”
Ashley blinked, still struggling to process everything. “What?” she muttered, completely thrown.
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“Return to him. Tell him you can’t get close to Kristian, and suggest that | should take your place.” Freya's words
landed like a cold slap, jolting Ashley from her daze. The air around her seemed to shift, charged with a new,
unsettling energy.
“Do you... do you grasp the weight of your words?” Ashley stammered, her voice trembling with a mix of fear
and disbelief.
“I do.”
“He may be captivating, but he’s nothing like Kristian,” Ashley pressed on, a desperate edge to her voice as she
played on Freya's known weakness for charming men. “You...”
“Don’t you yearn to live in peace with your grandmother and younger brother?” Freya's eyes were piercing, her
gaze laser-focused, cutting deep into Ashley's soul.
Of course Ashley did. How could she not long for that kind of life? She clung to that thought, repeating it like a
silent prayer in her head. Yet, desiring peace and...
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A wry smile twisted her lips. The irony was not lost on her—how laughable it was that someone like her even had
a conscience.
Freya's words from their last unsettling encounter echoed in Ashley's mind:
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