Merve felt a pair of hands wrapping around her, and it took her a moment to realize that it was Corey.
"I am so proud of you!", Corey said, unable to conceal his excitement.
Merve looked at Corey with a complex expression, fearing that he will think of her as savage, but the only things she saw in his hazel eyes were love and acceptance.
Corey Smith, the boy who gave her his jacket three and a half years ago while they watched fireworks, who came to the Cliffside Villa to train and to study and to ask her for tips on throwing knives and survival skills, the boy who supported her without asking for anything in return, the boy who knows about her dirty past and accepts her the way she is, and he took her to his prom and went to Eastern Europe with her… her boyfriend.
