Chapter 136 Pulled from the Depths.

To be frozen and drowned like this–Lily couldn’t accept it.

This can’t be how I die.

But no one

ne came to help her.

Her body felt stiff, too frozen to fight anymore.

The water gradually swallowed her nose and mouth. No matter how desperately she clung to life, she couldn’t fight death off.

Just as she thought darkness would completely consume her, she heard James’s voice.

“Lily”

He rushed toward her, bathed in moonlight and starlight.

The darkness and the cold were driven away by the light.

She was pulled into his arms–held tightly.

In that instant. Lily felt like a flower had bloomed in the midst of a bitter wind.

James wrapped one arm around her, braced the other against the edge of the fountain, and lifted her out of the water.

The wind blew past, and Lily couldn’t hold back a sneeze. Then came the painful coughing

She knew James didn’t care about her romantically. He had saved her purely out of principle, but even so, she was overwhelmed with gratitude.

had nothing to do with love. It

come out tonight with him. He was responsible

her phone had fallen on

knew it was a room James

was willing to divorce him, to set him free. So

hadn’t hesitated. He had Ashton

find Jonah pushing her into

are you

Jonah frowned.

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knew Lily could swim. He was sure falling into the

up for Mathilda. The last thing he wanted was James

thought about how James had cradled Lily as they came out of the water, Sean’s face turned

ice cold as it locked on James. “Lily pushed Mathilda into the fountain. She has to pay

a friend,

ties with both

roommates. He and Sean

left him comatose, they’d been

didn’t like meddling

And besides, two grown men ganging up on a woman–that was clearly out of line. The

shaking from the cold. Then he turned his eyes to the Ginger

noble features slowly took on a cold, mocking

either of you actually

“We.. we didn’t….”

Sean

it with

believed

James..”

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