Maeve was finding the situation more and more intriguing.
"Let's break this down from the beginning," she said.
"At the airport in South Africa, Natalia intentionally created a situation to meet you. Do you remember what she was after?"
"There was an explosion, people got hurt," Andres replied. "She tried to use traditional medicine to catch my attention."
Andres had gone to South Africa for several reasons.
One of them was to track down The Shadow Healer.
He hadn't understood why Natalia was there until he found out she was connected to Landon Hart. That explained how news of his trip had leaked.
Landon had spent enough time mingling in Aethelburg to build up his own network.
Even if Andres tried to keep a low profile, Landon could still track his movements if he put in the effort.
Maeve nodded. "So that was your first encounter. Her initial attempt to get close to you failed, which led to round two."
Round two was when Andres and Maeve were at the mall, and Natalia put on that whole staged performance with a group of paid actors.
Despite all the dramatics, her second attempt bombed as well.
Then came round three, where Anya Morales directly introduced Natalia to Andres under the guise of being The Shadow Healer.
Across all three meetings, Natalia had played the role of the innocent, clumsy romantic lead.
She acted naive and foolish, doing everything she could to make Andres drop his guard.
It wasn't until she moved into Azure Bay and Andres overheard her bizarre conversation with Anya that he realized the whole 'sweet and clueless' routine was completely manufactured.
Natalia had claimed she hated Andres.
But Maeve had also heard the undeniable affection in her voice.
She hated him, yet she loved him.
There was no way Maeve was buying that they didn't have history.
"When exactly did you go to Hex Hollow?"
Andres thought back.

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