Rebirth Into My Second Chance

Chapter 283

I bit down hard on the man's arm that was holding me captive. He jolted awake, staring at me in the moonlight, and I shrank back, startled by his reaction.

It didn't take long for him to regain his senses. His eyes, filled with a fierce

intensity, locked onto mine. Suddenly, he grabbed my chin, and I struggled to breathe as pain shot through me. With his free hand, he traced a small freckle on the bridge of my nose. "Beautiful," he murmured.

I tried to cry out for help, but only muffled sounds escaped my lips.

"Trying to leave?" His voice was cold, yet weak.

"I won't kill you. Just tell me, who are you?"

I could only manage a few more muffled sounds.

"Can't speak?" He looked at me skeptically, and I nodded, too scared to utter a word.

"Then you better not tell anyone I'm here."

I nodded obediently, and only then did he seem satisfied.

"Go on. Leave."

His grip loosened, and he slumped back, exhausted.

curled up again, shivering as if he were in an icebox. I opened the door to leave but paused to glance back at him. I couldn't just abandon him like that. I tucked a blanket around him, turned the air conditioning to heat, and shut the window

didn't understand what was happening, but this man looked

when Max's whereabouts

to my room and tried calling

late, and

the mysterious man in, the

the bed was neatly

a figment of

of the room, unnerved, and returned to my own as the first

Was Lily okay? Where

was the man in

at my reflection, my

I was no lopol

been through

swnch.

early, finding me standing by

not sleep at all last

I nodded silently.

"Princess Harriet's maid contacted

us to join her for breakfast. She also knows we took the

I frowned slightly.

if we want to see Lily, we must hand over the

washed over me at