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CHAPTER 40 RAINA’S POV My body only got weaker and my eyes grew tired. My nostrils were fed up with the almond smell of the stacks of paper. I couldn’t count how many times I had yawned or sighed or just stared at the heap without doing anything. Somehow, I knew that this was the simplest punishment Declan could have possibly given me and yet it was so herculean. Declan wanted me to fail and the moment I did, he was going to impose more punishments on me. I was determined not to flop in this particular task. The desperation to make him shocked and disappointed was like an adrenaline that fueled me to carry on. I worked through the papers like an automaton for about two hours until my stomach growled. I realized that I had had nothing to eat ever since we left the pack house and it was