Chapter 36

Ethan's gaze slowly wandered to the dirt between them. "You should. Don’t settle for what you have. Never settle for less than everything. Life’s too short to think you deserve less than all of your dreams and desires."

Pearl cocked a brow at his romantic words.

This was the guy they were calling Dickless less than an hour ago...

The silence settled back in, but his words replayed endlessly in her mind. Pearl wishes it were that easy. To just accept the things she wanted and not overthink all the things she needed.

Like survival. Her mission.

She may be able to wield the four elements of magic and be capable of opening a portal, but she couldn't control it, and she was afraid to even try. The magic was too big for her. The power was so overwhelming that she didn't even want to wield it unless deadly action was necessary.

She sighed as she remembered Kain, and sometimes the past was too present to really think about the future.

Finally, her home com