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 the

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the situation was

of his lips where no one could

  1. She must have been delirious from the fever.

stated it without

occur to me that

  1. are enough people in the Lauren family to handle

for my sister. Are you going to leave

has already been ruined

the corner

was filled with an infinite

at Celine. “Sebastian! Hand her over to

didn’t budge me a bit. I stared

arms, my heart skipped a bit and I couldn’t help but feel

to her father. I witnessed

emotional pain onto her.

I gazed up at

who was walling for me to hand his daughter to

clothing is already soaked, please allow me to be the one

the hospital.” I spread the word. “That ought to

Inconvenience for everyone else…”

that because I

clothes were also sodden.

to me as I walked

voice was shaky and when I turned to look

and she suddenly burst

her ear, loud enough for me

been

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could finally exit the room, I saw dad hurried over to Brylee to

since she was

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CELINE’S POV

into an unfamiliar room. There was

in which only a

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to sit up but failed miserably because I had

“Where am I?”

the

I cried on my mom’s body in the hospital,

her letter for me.

a man smoking, but I couldn’t make out

Most likely my

magnetic voice suddenly rang out in

all of my willpower to get up, but once I

back against the headboard

self–preservation on high alert.

Mon,

Raying

was instantaneously lit with blinding lights the

was flipped.

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wasn’t in the best of health at the time, so I

I heard it, and it wasn’t until then that I

room with me.

impeccably in a suit

approached me with his

pants as he stopped at the foot of the

his face, and the

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