Chapter 110
Darling, are you good?
For the hundredth time, yes! Candy replied with a tone filled with resentment. The mental walls around her thoughts felt thin, vibrating with her mounting annoyance.
Candy grew irritated by Poseidon’s constant check-ins on her well-being. She appreciated his protective instinct, feeling the genuine fear behind his relentless questions, but he was beginning to treat her more like a child with every moment of this mission. His anxiety was a constant, nagging noise at the back of her mind, a distraction she couldn’t afford. She half-heartedly thought about putting up a mental barrier with him, keeping the connection to Mikey as the only clear link. It felt selfish, but her focus was all that stood between the mission’s success and failure.
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