845 Chapter 844


    Jodie wasn''t bound with ropes, nor were there shackles on her feet. She walked in wearing her favorite dress, surrounded by armed guards, her head held high without a trace of panic. She looked less like someone taken hostage and more like someone being escorted to safety.


    She had always been this way—calm andposed, even if the world crumbled around her.


    Keira''s gaze locked on her mother''s face.


    Her face was clean and her hair impably styled. If it weren''t for the paleness of her lips, she would look exactly as she had years ago in Oceanion, as if life had treated her well.


    But Keira, ever perceptive, caught the unsteadiness in her mother''s otherwise graceful steps. Beneath the fa?ade of poise was exhaustion and frailty.


    Keira''s mind shed to theshings her mother endured the night before. Jodie hadn''t cried or screamed, yet those around her had howled and wept as if they were the ones suffering.


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