Chapter 48. The Almost Kiss

Madeline’s POV

As I was on the porch, I glanced at the sun setting behind the trees. It was so beautiful that I had a long glance before I focused on my sketch again. When my throat craved the black coffee I was having, I grabbed its mug and sipped on it.

“What a beautiful sketch,” I heard Uriel’s voice approaching, making me look at where he was. “I did not know you have another talent other than raising your eyebrows and being mean to everyone at all times.”

I rolled my eyes as I glared at him. “I am not mean,” I defended and watched him sit beside me. “I am just not nice to people who are not nice to me.”

“I see,” he said and observed my drawing. “What is that, though?”

“The ball of crystal,” I said and did not stop sketching the borders. “I have once held this in my current world.”

“Really? Was it heavy?”

“No,” I said and shook my head. “But I have read from the book that the magic crystal cannot be lifted comfortably by