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Jian
Bo wouldn’t talk to him. After Jian and Luca waited for him outside the study, their hands on their daos ready to charge back into the room, Bo walked right past them, stopping in front of one of the guards.
“Hua Minglan is to be taken to a comfortable room,” he’d said. “Wake some servants to attend her.”
For a few brief moments, Jian wondered if Hua had come back to them, but the look in her eyes spoke true. The Nagi still had control and had struck an accord with the emperor.
When Bo walked away, Jian and Luca tried to follow him, but two guards stood in their way, instructed by the emperor to not let anyone pass.
Jian knew where he went, where he always went to still the turmoil inside him. But the temple would provide none of the answers he wanted.
And now, after a few h
