"The Church had always been Kalypso's safe haven. After her father died, the church took her in and following her late father's will turned her over to the Valentine Duchy." — Chapter Two, The Lovable Villainess.
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Eden had a very soft touch. His fingers touched the expanse of my back, "Does it hurt?"
Everyone had started to ask me that question. It didn't. Nothing really hurt. I wondered if this hollowness trailed inside me in the book, The Lovabless Villainess. I wondered if there was desperation inside of my heart that pounded so furiously that I felt as though I would be asphyxiated.
"It doesn't," I explained softly, "It doesn't at all."
