Chapter 21: Assimilating with the skill.
[Seles’s POV]
Within the meeting room of Rael’s personal floor, a beautiful girl sat in silence.
Brown hair framed her delicate face but her green eyes were far from calm. They shifted between the door and the floor.
Her hands trembled with fear and slight excitement. In her lap rested a small, sealed briefcase. Inside it was The Crimson’s Tears.
One of her grandfather’s most precious treasures. Something he’d been saving for nearly a year.
And she had stolen it.
No.
She had just borrowed it for a day.
Her grandfather kept it locked away in a locker inside his private office. But Seles knew the code. She’d watched him enter it once, years ago.
She never forgot it.
She was sure he wouldn’t notice. He was away, deep in a dungeon expedition.
Still, her fingers trembled. Not just from fear of being caught. But because, deep down... she was hoping.