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Sharon tried to push past the reporters, but their encirclement felt like a wall of steel.

“Sharon, please answer my question!”

“Sharon-”

“Sharon-”

The voices buzzed around her like a swarm of wasps, piercing her ears.

And then, someone shoved her–hard.

Caught off guard, Sharon hit the ground with a painful thud.

She struggled to rise, palms stinging, knees burning, when a sudden cry pierced through the noise.

“She hit someone! Mrs. Biggs just hit someone!”

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It was impossible to tell who shouted it, but the reaction was instant. Every flashbulb turned on her, bathing her in a storm of strobing lights.

The noise, the strangers‘ faces crowding in with hungry eyes, felt like masked demons closing in. She couldn’t breathe. Her lungs burned with the weight of it all.

from outside the chaos–low and cold,

All

man stood at the edge of

Sharon’s pupils contracted.

Xavier.

He crossed over to her, noticed her

to the hospital,” he

surged again, like bees drawn to a bloom. But something about him–his presence, the cold force of

with Sharon? Are you aware

reporter–the same one who had been hurling

cold and fathomless. His voice dropped, sharp enough to pierce

“Are you questioning me?”

in her throat. She

and the weight of his silence. Under his

looked down at Sharon’s ankle. “It’s sprained. I’ll take you to the hospital now.” Before she could reply, he

a voice–equally low but tinged with frost–broke the

“Oh? What a crowd.”

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was clear and cool, like water trickling through a

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