He frowned. “I said, go back to your seats!”
They stumbled off, muttering. “What’s up with him? Since when does Preston care about r
rules?”
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Prestoni glanced at the empty seat beside him, cleared his stuff off the desk, and stacked his books neatly.
He hated it when someone sat next to him because he didn’t want to hear someone else’s breathing
Bu… since Regina wanted to blend in, he should give her a chance.
I wasn’t because he cared about her.
He just simply thought she didn’t deserve to be left embarrassed
He looked at the door expectantly, wondering when Regina would show up.
Regina stood in the chairman’s office, calmly accepting the gaze of the man sitting across from her.
He had slicked–back hair, deep features, and a healthy tan.
His beefy body was almost tearing through his sharp suit, and he scanned every part of her face, seemingly pondering something.
Dead silence filled the room. suffocating.
Yet Regina felt nothing about it: she stood still obediently.
The man squinted slightly and scanned her profile.
I stated her Humanity in the first test was one, and it was ten in the second test.
She was
he was actually a level ten.
Liam Hayes,
Quirman of the
Board, looked at the door to the lounge.
The lounge door was open by a slit
The long–haired man was observing Regina through the crack.
Has gaze shifted from her head, her hands, to her legs.
He looked over and over every part of her body many times and had no intention of stopping.
Frowning, Liam continued to observe Regina.
She had great figure, sure, but no matter how he sized her up, she just seemed like a regular girl.
Mitchell the new transfer student who has just transferred to our
The principal, a bald man wiped his sweat awkwardly. “Mr. Hayes, this is Regina Mi school”
Liam nodded coldly. “I know”
The principal nodded awkwardly. “Yes, of course”
Yet at the same time, he was roaring deep down, thinking, “You know! Like hell you do! You’ve been staring at her for ten minutes straight without saying a word! What is she, à museum exhibit? Why are you eyeballing her like that? What’s she supposed to think?”
Yet in fact, Regina really didn’t notice that she had been here for several minutes already
She was
was too busy lost in her own head
She just realized she had lost her sense of human emotion, but she was at her sharpest when she was a little gul
From the way her foster parents acted, she could always tell if they were in a good mood, if they were about to snap and hit her, how long they’d keep at it, and what they’d use.
She could read their thoughts through their eyes and judge how they would react in different situations.
With this skill, she could observe the emotions of all the adults around her so as to protect herself.
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She had always been smooth.
However, after Lily’s death, she seemed to be blind; she could only distinguish the others‘ emotions but not their real intentions
She couldn’t even tell if Preston’s ears were red because he was nervous or shy, or because he was lying.
Would this stand in her way of making money?-That was the question running in her head now.
Seeing her in a dare, Liam said, “Let me walk you through the rules of Blackthorn Academy,”
Snapping back to reality, she met Liam’s eyes,
Her blank stare threw him off for a second, but he kept it cool and went on. This place isn’t some free–for–all school. You’re in the undergrad program, but we still run it like a high school for safety. Morning classes are required class, afternoon ones are elective ones, and we’re done at live sharp.
“You can’t leave campus or sneak anyone in while you’re here, and you’ve got to wear the uniform. That’s how we know you’re one of us.
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