Chapter 21

SEBASTIAN’S POV

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I was fast enough to catch Celine’s body before she fell to the ground, lifted

her up, and carried her bridal style. Just I was about to walk out of the room, I

felt someone’s fingers wrapped around my arm.

“S–Seb..” Hearing Brylee’s voice prevented me from moving. “Where are you

taking her?”

I heaved a deep sigh before shaking off her hand and continuing to walk, but

another woman pranced over and she looked like she was on the verge of

blowing a fuse.

My mother cast a suspicious look in my direction before interrogating me

with the question, “What in the world are you doing, Sebastian?”

“Her temperature is rising…” I said, oblivious to the eyes that were

surrounding me and anticipating my next move. “I can’t just leave her here

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like this.”

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“What the hell are you talking about?” She glanced at me with eyes filled with

disbelief and astonishment.

“I’m taking her with me, mom…” I don’t want to meet her gaze because I’m

afraid I’ll become hypnotized and make her stop me. “She’s going home with

me…”

As I walked away from mom, I felt someone heavily place their hand on my

shoulder. I didn’t look around to see who it was because I could tell by the

way he was pressing his hand on my shoulder that he was angry with me.

“Julio… what is it that you want?”

“She’s my daughter, I’m the one who will take her home, Sebastian…” he was

now in front of me and wearing a fake smile, his voice sounding ingratiating.

And as he was talking, he extended his arm to take Celine from my me, but I

retreated a step in the opposite direction. “She’s not going home with you.

bringing her to

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was

lips where no one could see.

  1. have been delirious from the fever. Come, give

it without changing my

It didn’t occur to me that Brylee was

  1. people in the Lauren family to handle this situation.

necessary for you to do it for

already been ruined because

of the corner of my

revealed how her stare was filled with an

Celine. “Sebastian! Hand her over

didn’t budge me a bit.

my heart skipped a bit and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her.

give her to her father. I witnessed him

emotional pain onto her.

sigh as I gazed up at the people in front of

was walling for me

please allow

hospital.” I spread the

Inconvenience for everyone else…”

that because

also sodden. Everyone stepped aside and gave

to me as I

was shaky and when I turned

eyelashes and she

mom whispered to her ear, loud

always been

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the room, I saw

was now

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CELINE’S POV

unfamiliar room. There

only

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miserably because I had the

around me was whirling. “Where am

my fingers, the aftermath of the sickness still leaving trails

was that I cried on my mom’s body

her letter for me.

a man smoking, but I couldn’t make out his

Most

rang out in the

use all of my willpower to get up, but once

the headboard

self–preservation on high alert.

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instantaneously lit with blinding lights the

was flipped.

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the best of health at the time, so I didn’t Instantly

it, and it wasn’t until then that I realized who else was in

room with me.

dressed impeccably in a suit

his figure, approached me with

his pants as he stopped at the foot of the bed. He

his face, and the air around him

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