At Aaron Doom's place, it was no secret that Iris Dukes was pursuing Jude Marsh.
Iris Dukes tried every means possible to "woo" Jude Marsh, and that wasn't a secret either.
As for the Captain's idle wife who doubled as the women's team captain—Flossie Wright, the pregnant woman secretly matchmaking them, that was definitely not a secret either.
Yet somehow, the two main characters living under this "common knowledge" hadn't pierced that layer of their relationship.
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September, the beginning of autumn, the weather turned cooler.
Two in the morning.
Iris Dukes was tossing and turning in bed.
Couldn't sleep no matter what.
"What are you doing?!" Devina Millet, who slept in the lower bunk, was woken up and kicked the wooden slats of the upper bunk, snapping, "We have training tomorrow!"
Iris Dukes, clutching her blanket, poked her head out from the upper bunk.
Devina Millet opened her groggy eyes, almost got frightened by the head that popped out.
