"Thank you…", She accepted the gift and started following after Ilya who had already exited the salon.
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Their car pulled up to the castle's back entrance. Adele gathered her small purse, preparing to say goodbye to Ilya, but when she looked back, she saw him opening the trunk and pulling out multiple shopping bags... all the clothes and accessories from Mikhail's boutique.
She was remembering her promise to her mother, that she would never surrender just like that and that she would fight her way out of this hell until the end. She swallowed hard and nodded.
(i will live a good life)
"Then make your footing strong." He said while walking to her desk and handing her a document. "Read this. It's all the information you will require for tonight about the Gala and the lady hosting it. Today, I don't expect anything from you except observation."
