Chapter 1197:
Ellis chuckled. “What?”
“Wantto make it happen now?” he asked, blatantly teasing her.
Freya paused, suddenly uncertain. What was that supposed to mean?
“How about a full day at the base tomorrow, as a reward?” Ellis’s tone shifted into that familiar drawl—the one
he used when he was scheming. “Everything you've been imagining—we'll do it all.”
“No!” Freya dropped the act, alarm flashing in her eyes.
Ellis looked at her, his eyes gleaming with mischief.
Freya pressed her lips tightly together. “Keep this up and you'll lose me.”
“Don’t want to go back to the base?” he teased.
“If you and my mom team up to kickout again, I'll throw you right back into training,” Ellis threatened, for
the first tsounding completely serious. “And after the drills, I'll continue to wear you out in bed.”
Freya froze. She stared at him, wide-eyed, completely thrown by what had just cout of his mouth.
Ellis, fully aware of her reaction, yanked the blanket up and pulled her into his arms. “Staring won't help. Sleep.”
Freya lay there silently, too spooked to move. It was painfully obvious that Ellis was in a dangerously tempting
mood. But with Kendra just one room away, Freya wasn’t about to take any chances.
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Ellis held himself back, never crossing the line. He simply held her.
“Ellis.”
“Good night.”
“Good night.”
They fell asleep together, side by side.
Over the next few days, Kendra spent hours chatting with Freya, soaking in the stories of her life—from childhood
until now. By the end of it, she was genuinely impressed. She saw Freya as a truly remarkable young woman.
Freya had a range of talents—music, chess, calligraphy, painting—and yet, in everyday life, she was as laid-back
as they come.
“If I had your skills when | was younger, I'd have taken over every social scene | stepped into,” Kendra teased.
“people like you, who keep a low profile, are rare.”
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“Actually, it's laziness,” Freya replied.
She just didn't have the energy to
compete with others. She didn’t care
enough to wiry x Ip3e Ghe‘orty got
irEoRadking because it looked cool.
Everything else, she picked up
because she figured one day, if her
company ever tanked, she'd need
something to fall back on—at least
she could live off her skills. The
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Kendra smiled indulgently and tucked
a loose strand of hair behind Frey's
ear. “From now an, Yolire: cO
F2Pnily Sofi gold. And in the
Lamberts, we look out for our own.
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“Thanks,” Freya said, her smile soft but sincere.
The hardest relationship to navigate
was often between a mother-in-law
and daug hter-in-lawy Ffeyaas Tlky.
Eyer mensber & Ellis's family she'd
met had been genuinely kind. Their
warmth made her instinctively want
to stay close and feel cherished. The
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