Night Carved Paths Into Silence by Zyrel Ash 82
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But as soon as she got back, she changed her clothes and
rushed down to the basement.
Fine. Dance practice was more important than him.
Roderick felt a little annoyed. Wasn’t she just jealous of him
and Rebecca a moment ago?
Did she get over it that quickly?
He narrowed his eyes, and then remembered the basement
didn’t just have a dance studio–it had a gym, too.
A smirk touched his lips. He deliberately changed into workout
clothes that hugged his muscles and headed over.
The jealousy trick didn’t work?
Time for some seduction.
For the past eighteen years, dancing was etched into
Madeleine’s very bones.
She didn’t know why she’d had a fit and stopped dancing after
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she turned 18, but now that she had the chance, she had to get
it back.
Never giving up, never surrendering–that wasn’t just Roderick’s
nature, it was Madeleine’s too.
Back then, just because she heard her teachers say that girls‘
math skills fall behind boys‘ in high school, Madeleine was
angry for a long time.
She started grinding through practice problems day and night,
acing every single math test and proving her teachers wrong.
Her body was stiff from not dancing for a few years?
She’d just have to loosen it up.
Her movements weren’t standard or precise?
She’d just have to drill the fundamentals relentlessly.
That was just how Madeleine was; she never wasted energy on
self–doubt, only turned it into action.
She firmly believed that with this kind of perseverance, she could succeed at anything.
After practicing hard for over forty minutes, Madeleine was
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drenched in sweat, sitting on the barre and drinking water.
As she drank her water, she heard a loud thud from above her.
“An earthquake!
?”
Madeleine jumped off the barre in fright, ready to run outside.
But she had pushed herself too hard while dancing, and now
her legs felt a bit like jelly, so she couldn’t run fast.
She took two steps and stopped.
“Doesn’t seem like an earthquake…”
Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, there was another thud
from above, like something heavy had hit the floor.
Madeleine looked up at the ceiling.
Her dance studio was on the second basement level, and there
was another basement level above it that Madeleine had never
been to.
Unable to contain her curiosity, Madeleine took her water bottle
and got into the elevator.
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The elevator doors opened, and Madeleine’s eyes lit up.
A gym?
The first basement level was actually a gym!
She looked around excitedly. A cable machine, a Smith
machine, barbells and dumbbells of all sizes, and even cardio
equipment like a treadmill, an elliptical, and a ski machine…
It had everything, comparable to a professional commercial
gym.
Madeleine couldn’t help but touch this and that, completely
unaware that a resentful gaze was fixed on her from a short
distance away.
Roderick, his face dark, slammed the barbell in his hands down
again.
The thud made Madeleine jump.
“Ricki?
So you’re here.”
Madeleine was startled again, and after saying that, she felt her
throat tighten as her gaze unconsciously fell on Roderick.
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He was wearing a tight black tank top, and with less clothing
on, the perfect lines of his broad shoulders and narrow waist
were revealed.
Having just finished a few sets of heavy lifting, his arm muscles
were taut, veins slightly bulging, and his breathing was a little
ragged.
Sweat trickled down his neck, pausing briefly at his collarbone
before disappearing into his collar.
“Nothing wrong with your eyes, huh? You’re just seeing me now,
right?”
Roderick said faintly, his voice low and husky with a post-
workout languor. For some reason, Madeleine felt a little guilty
hearing it.
Her attention really had wandered just now.
“I didn’t notice before. You were too far away.”
Roderick raised an eyebrow and walked toward her step by step, his presence so intimidating that Madeleine couldn’t help
but back away.
“What are you doing…”
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“Didn’t you say I was too far away?”
Madeleine was speechless and swallowed hard.
Roderick noticed her small movement, the corners of his mouth
lifting as his gaze shifted down to the water bottle Madeleine
was holding.
“I’m thirsty.”
After saying that, he casually snatched the cup from
Madeleine’s hand, turned his body 45 degrees to show off his
best profile, and tilted his head back to drink.
“Hiss…”
Madeleine couldn’t help but suck in a sharp breath.
Ricki like this… why is he giving off… so much sexual tension!
?
It was just a simple act of drinking water, but she found herself blushing unconsciously, her heart starting to race along with it.
Why is this so seductive?
?
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?
“Why did you snatch my water? It’s mine.”
Only after he finished drinking did Madeleine snap out of it and
quickly snatched the cup back.
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