The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 136

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.

her had nothing to do with

tonight with him. He was responsible for bringing her

noticed her phone had fallen on the floor. Something felt off. They checked the security footage and saw John forcibly

a room James had reserved and called him

willing to divorce him, to set him free. So of course,

hesitated. He had Ashton drive him

to find Jonah pushing her into a fountain–nearly

you doing

Jonah frowned.

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Pulled from the

knew Lily could swim. He was sure falling into the fountain wouldn’t kill

hadn’t stood up for Mathilda. The

James had cradled Lily as

gaze turned ice cold as it locked on James. “Lily pushed Mathilda into the

me a friend,

close ties with

Jonah had been college roommates. He and Sean were high school

that left him comatose, they’d

like meddling in

had told him to treat Lily like a sister and look after her. And besides, two grown men ganging up on a woman–that was clearly out of line. The values he’d been raised with wouldn’t allow

Lily, still shaking from the cold. Then he turned his

slowly took on a cold,

either

“We.. we didn’t….”

and Sean exchanged a

had seen it with

they believed Mathilda

James..”

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