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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situation was exemplified by Julio’s frozen smile

of his lips where no one could

  1. must have been delirious from the fever. Come, give

stated it without changing my

occur to me that Brylee was already standing next

  1. the Lauren family to handle

do it for

which has already been ruined because of

corner of

me, revealed how her stare was filled with an infinite

Celine. “Sebastian! Hand her over to

mom’s voice didn’t budge me a bit. I

I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her.

her father. I witnessed him inflict both

emotional pain onto her.

another deep sigh as I gazed up at the people

who was walling for me

is already soaked, please allow me

the hospital.” I spread the

Inconvenience for everyone else…”

that because I

also sodden. Everyone

me as I walked

was shaky and when I turned

she suddenly burst

Brylee…” mom whispered to her ear,

always been

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the room, I saw dad hurried over to Brylee to

she was now a

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CELINE’S POV

opened my eyes into an unfamiliar room. There was a faint cigarette

only a lamp in the nightstand

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to sit up but failed miserably because I

was whirling. “Where am I?” I massaged my

the aftermath of the sickness still

I could recall was that I cried on my mom’s body in the hospital,

her letter for me.

room, there was a man smoking, but I couldn’t make out

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voice suddenly rang out

had to use all of my willpower to get up, but once

headboard and put

self–preservation on high alert.

Mon,

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was instantaneously lit with blinding lights the

was flipped.

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at the time, so I didn’t

until then

room with me.

was dressed impeccably in

of his figure, approached me with his

pants as he stopped at the

a serious expression on his face, and the

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