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.

her to

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strangeness of the situation was exemplified by Julio’s frozen

where no one could

  1. delirious from the fever. Come, give her to

stated it without changing

me that Brylee was already

  1. the Lauren

not necessary for you to do it for my sister. Are you going

has already been ruined because of

of the corner of my eye that my mother moved

revealed how her stare was filled with an

looked at Celine. “Sebastian! Hand her over to

didn’t budge me a bit. I

heart skipped a bit and I couldn’t

her to her father. I

emotional pain onto her.

deep sigh as I gazed up

walling for me to hand his daughter

allow me to

the word. “That ought to spare

Inconvenience for everyone else…”

then did everyone realize that because I had been

were also sodden. Everyone stepped

to me as I

Brylee’s voice was shaky and when I turned to look

her eyelashes and she suddenly burst into

mom whispered to her ear, loud enough for me to

always been my

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could finally exit the room, I saw

was now

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CELINE’S POV

unfamiliar room.

in which only

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miserably

around me was whirling. “Where am

the aftermath of the sickness

cried on my mom’s body in

her letter for me.

the room, there was a man smoking, but I couldn’t make out his

Most likely

voice suddenly rang out in the night making

of my willpower to get up, but once I

the headboard

self–preservation on high alert.

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Raying

instantaneously lit with blinding lights the moment the

was flipped.

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best of health at the time,

then that I realized

room with me.

was dressed impeccably in a suit that accentuated

his figure, approached me with his hands stuffed into

stopped at the foot of the bed.

face, and

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