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Chapter 29

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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.

a voice from outside the chaos–low and cold, cutting through the clamor like

aside. All

crowd turned in unison. A tall man stood at the edge of the group, posture straight, eyes sharp.

Sharon’s pupils contracted.

Xavier.

daze gave him just enough time. He crossed over to her, noticed her

you to the hospital,” he said, lifting her gently from the

reporters surged again, like bees drawn to a bloom.

with Sharon?

reporter–the same one who had been hurling insults at

cold and fathomless. His voice dropped, sharp enough

“Are you questioning me?”

Her breath caught in her throat.

weight of his silence. Under his gaze, her heart nearly

down at Sharon’s ankle. “It’s sprained. I’ll take you to the hospital now.”

a voice–equally low but

“Oh? What a crowd.”

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clear and cool, like water trickling through

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