Chapter 26

Leia's POV

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Did Ivory want to direct her hint in this way?

Of course, Aleena was not a kid who could easily come under someone's influence, but then, ‘A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.’

But the question was, ‘why the hell was she giving all these ideas to Aleena?’

That day nothing interesting happened in my life except for watching the same episode of my human drama throughout the day.

“Are you ready?” I asked immediately after he closed the door behind me.

“Sorry, Leia! I don’t think I can run with you tonight. Stephen has a lot of pending words which he has to finish, and I doubt we will get a chance to spend time together for the next couple of days.”, he apologized.

“It’s okay! I can understand.”, I said in an understanding tone.

“Won’t you ask me what is that work which is keeping me this busy?” he asked when he saw that I wasn’t going to question him about his work.

“No. I think your work part should be kept as a secret because yo