Chapter 827 Tides We Can't Turn Back

• Just those words, and Nadia felt like someone had pulled the plug on her brain. No clever comeback, no witty remark—just... nothing.
• Haran gave her shoulder a solid, reassuring pat. "Nadia, people come and go. If the stars line up, we'll bump into each other again."
• The clock had run out. The visiting group began filing into the speedboats, engines rumbling, ready to ferry them to the deep-sea dock.