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Chapter 132
As I walked toward the registration hall, I could still feel Olivia’s silver eyes following me.
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An hour later, after completing the extensive paperwork and preliminary skills assessment, I emerged from the institute’s main hall, mentally
exhausted but satisfied.
To my surprise, Olivia Sullivan was still in the grand lobby, seated elegantly on a bench near the fountain.
When she spotted me, she rose.
“Ms. Sullivan-Tori,” she called, approaching with a warm smile. “I hope your registration went well p>
“Yes, thank you,” I replied, genuinely surprised she had waited. “Everything is in order p>
“I know this might seem forward,” Olivia said, her voice softer now, more personal, “but I feel a strange connection with you. Would you do me the honor of visiting my home for tea? The Sullivan estate isn’t far from here p>
The invitation caught me off guard. Tea with the matriarch of one of the four founding packs? It seemed surreal, yet the genuine emotion in her eyes made it impossible to refuse.
“I’d be honored, Mrs. Sullivan,” I said with a slight bow of my head.
Her face brightened immediately. “Wonderful! My car is waiting outside p>
As Olivia walked ahead to speak with her driver, I quickly pulled out my phone to text Lucas.
Going to visit Olivia Sullivan’s home for tea. She invited me after my institute registration. Should be back by evening.
His response came almost immediately, making me wonder if he’d been waiting for my message:
Be careful. Call me if anything feels off.
No demand to avoid going. No controlling questions about why I’d accepted. Just simple concern for my safety. The trust implied in those fewe words made me smile as I slipped my phone back into my pocket and join Olivia in the cat.
The car stopped before an estate-the legendary Sullivan Manor.
The elegant Georgian mansion with its white columns and silver gray stor work exuded both history and refinement
‘Come, dear,’ Olivia said, taking my hand with surprising familiarity as we entered ‘Let me shows you around p>
She led me through the manor with pride. Unlike the more modern, sometimes cold aesthetic of the Grayson estate, the Sullivan home felt warm and lived in despite its grandeur.
After the tour, we settled in a sunlit living room where a tea service awaited
Olivia disappeared briefly, returning with a leather-bound photo album cliched to her chest.
“I hope you don’t mind indulging an old woman,” she said with a self-depecating smile as she sat beside me on the sofa. ‘It’s not often I have
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someone to chat with these days. Most people are too busy or too intimidated to simply sit and talk p>
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“I don’t mind at all,” I assured her, waving away her concerns. “It’s my honor to be here p>
Olivia’s eyes softened as she opened the album.
“This was my granddaughter, Luna,” she said, pointing to a photo of a smiling baby with startling silver eyes-eyes remarkably similar to my
own.
I suddenly understood Olivia’s intense reaction when she’d first seen me.
“She’s beautiful,” I said softly, studying the happy infant surrounded by love. “If she were still alive today, she must have led such a blessed life,
with a family that loved her so deeply p>
Olivia nodded, blinking back tears. She would have been about your age now. William adored her. We all did p>
When Olivia turned to the last page, my heart nearly stopped.
There, a beautiful young woman with delicate features and gentle eyes held a three-month-old infant, both smiling at the camera.
Something about her smile triggered a peculiar sensation in my chest-a bittersweet ache that expanded and filled my heart. I couldn’t explain why, but the image resonated within me on a level that felt almost… familiar.
“Who… who is that?” I struggled to ask, pointing at the woman.
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