Zoe Pierce looked up at Aaron Xavier again.
Hmm...
'Thinking about it, it doesn't seem so strange that he'd be the one to say that.'
Aaron Xavier's thoughts were harder to guess than a woman's; you could never figure out what he was truly thinking.
One second he'd be all smiles, and the next, his expression would turn cold.
What Aaron Xavier was thinking was indeed different from what Zoe Pierce imagined.
This was completely different from watching her run drills on the training grounds. That was a controlled environment. Besides, Zoe Pierce's stamina was poor to begin with; they were just having her exercise so she wouldn't look so frail and delicate.
The weather in the forest was completely unpredictable. Zoe Pierce could have made a better choice, yet she chose a path no one would have expected or taken.
She had stubbornly shouldered it all by herself, and even now, she hadn't shown a single trace of fragility.
