Sylvia (ManorStories) - 21 All's Well What Ends...No Wait By MissKitty2K

Of course!

You can count on us, we'll pick you up and drive you there.

Try to get some rest for now, you must be exhausted.

I was wrong about you, Valerie. I hope you can forgive me.

It's okay, Aliyah. Please pull all of this behind you. You're safe and with friends now.

Thank you, both of you.

Back home, Valerie stayed a moment at the banquet, silently looking at the sky.

Val, is everything okay?

I can't shake this strange feeling.

Maybe it's just the rush of adrenaline finally going down.

When you told me about the accusations against Claude,

I got really worried about what we were walking into.

But you... you jumped into action, so determined and fierce.

You looked as if nothing could stand against you.

I might have gotten a bit carried away.

And I did let him speak.

You can't argue with the results.

True.

I did it as much for you as for myself.

It felt right.

I admit that I was jealous of your colleagues,

but a dangerous situation like this helped me see past that.

All the promises I made to my father and all my training would have been

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