For one suspended moment, they measured each other carefully.
Now face to face, she looked even younger than He Juan expected. Her hair was cropped short below her ear, just barely enough to frame her youthful features. She had a pair of thin and sharp eyebrows that matched her unyielding temperament and a lanky stature that would definitely continue to grow thanks to her secondary gender as an Alpha.
However, it was her eyes that drew He Juan's attention the most.
They were the eyes that had seen and endured too much. They were too cold, wary and worn out, as if she had expended all of her energy to fight against the whole world and was barely hanging on the last thread.
She simultaneously reminded him of the omegas he had rescued from the traffickers… and also the foreigner boy whose profile he had read through the confidential report Marius had shown him.
