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.

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

what was happening, but this man looked just like Max. There had

Max's whereabouts were

room and tried calling Max,

was late, and I

the mysterious man in, the door was ajar. I distinctly

empty. Even the bed was neatly made, as if nothing

all a figment

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

much had happened. Was Lily

who was the

my reflection, my eyes

but I was

been

swnch.

me standing by the window. She rushed

"Did you not sleep at

I nodded silently.

"Princess Harriet's maid contacted

join her for breakfast. She also knows we took the Goodwin sisters and demands a ransom. Otherwise,

I frowned slightly.

Lily, we must hand over the Goodwin sisters." Lily was

me at