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

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situation was exemplified by

of his lips where no one could see. “Of course…

  1. been delirious from the

without changing my tone.

me that Brylee

  1. are enough people in the Lauren family

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

celebration, which has already been ruined because

out of the corner of my eye that

me, revealed how her stare was filled with an infinite amount of disdain

looked at Celine. “Sebastian! Hand

me a bit. I stared at the unconscious

and I couldn’t help but

give her to her father. I witnessed

emotional pain onto her.

up at the people in front of me,

me

clothing is already soaked, please allow me to be

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

Inconvenience for everyone else…”

everyone realize that because

were also sodden.

as I walked out of the

voice was shaky and when I

and she suddenly burst

her ear, loud enough for me to

has always been my

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I saw dad hurried over

since she was now a

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CELINE’S POV

my eyes into an unfamiliar room.

which only

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miserably

whirling. “Where am

the aftermath of the sickness

recall was that I cried on

her letter for me.

room, there was a man smoking, but

him. Most likely

magnetic voice suddenly rang out in the night making

my willpower to get up, but once I did,

my back against the headboard

self–preservation on high alert.

Mon,

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instantaneously lit with

was flipped.

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at the time, so I

until then that I

room with me.

was dressed impeccably in a suit that accentuated

his figure, approached me

as he stopped at the foot

face, and the air around him was tinged

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