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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the situation was exemplified by Julio’s

his lips where no one

  1. She must have been delirious from the fever.

I stated it without

didn’t occur to me that Brylee was already

  1. are enough people in the Lauren family

for you to do it for my sister. Are you going

has already

the corner

was filled with an

“Sebastian! Hand her

didn’t budge me a bit.

bit and I couldn’t

her father. I witnessed him

emotional pain onto her.

But another deep sigh as I gazed up at the

who was walling for me to hand his daughter

soaked, please allow

the word. “That ought to

Inconvenience for everyone else…”

realize that because I had been holding the

sodden.

I walked

was shaky and when I turned to

she suddenly

cry, Brylee…” mom whispered to her ear, loud enough for

been my

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could finally exit the room, I saw dad

since she was now

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CELINE’S POV

eyes into an unfamiliar room. There

the dark room, in which only a lamp in the nightstand was

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failed miserably because I had the

room around me was whirling. “Where am

the aftermath of the sickness still leaving

I cried on my mom’s body in

her letter for me.

there was a man smoking, but I couldn’t

Most likely my

a magnetic voice suddenly rang out in the night

willpower to get up, but

the headboard and put my instinct

self–preservation on high alert.

Mon,

Raying

instantaneously lit with blinding lights the

was flipped.

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health at the time,

it wasn’t until then that I

room with me.

impeccably in a suit

approached me with his hands stuffed into

at the foot of the bed.

expression on his face, and the air

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