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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“What the hell are you talking about?” She nced 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 be hypnotized and make her stop me. “She’s going home with
me…”
As I walked away from mom, I felt someone heavily ce 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.
I’m bringing her to the hospital…”
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The strangeness of the situation was exemplified by Julio’s frozen smile and
the twitching of his lips where no one could see. “Of course… to the hospital it
1. is. She must have been delirious from the fever. Come, give her to me…”
“Don’t bother.” I stated it without changing my tone. “I’m going to—”
“Sebastian.” It didn’t ur to me that Brylee was already standing next to
1. me. “There are enough people in the Lauren family to handle this situation. It
is not necessary for you to do it for my sister. Are you going to leave our
engagement celebration, which has already been ruined because of her?”
I caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye that my mother moved closer
to me, revealed how her stare was filled with an infinite amount of disdain as
she looked at Celine. “Sebastian! Hand her over to Mr. Lauren!”
My mom’s voice didn’t budge me a bit. I stared at the unconscious woman in
my arms, my heart skipped a bit and I couldn’t help but feel sorry for her. I
can’t give her to her father. I witnessed him inflict both physical and
emotional pain onto her.
Hef But another deep sigh as I gazed up at the people in front of me, mainly
at julle who was walling for me to hand his daughter to him,
“Since my clothing is already soaked, please allow me to be the one to take
her to the hospital.” I spread the word. “That ought to spare the
Inconvenience for everyone else…”
Only then did everyone realize that because I had been holding the soaking
Celine, my clothes were also sodden. Everyone stepped aside and gave the
way to me as I walked out of the hall.
“Brylee…” Brylee’s voice was shaky and when I turned to look at her, she
fluttered her eyshes and she suddenly burst into tears.
“Don’t cry, Brylee…” mom whispered to her ear, loud enough for me to hear.
“Kindness has always been my son’s weakness…”
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Before I could finally exit the room, I saw dad hurried over to Brylee tofort
her since she was now a sobbing mess.
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CELINE’S POV
I opened my eyes into an unfamiliar room. There was a faint cigarette smell
wafting in the dark room, in which only amp in the nightstand was on.
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attempted to sit up but failed miserably because I had the impression that
the room around me was whirling. “Where am I?” I massaged my temple
with my fingers, the aftermath of the sickness still leaving trails of dizziness.
All I could recall was that I cried on my mom’s body in the hospital, and read
her letter for me.
In the room, there was a man smoking, but I couldn’t make out his face or
identify him. Most likely my father?
“You’re awake?” a maic voice suddenly rang out in the night making me
flinch. I had to use all of my willpower to get up, but once I did, I immediately
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leaned my back against the headboard and put my instinct for
self–preservation on high alert.
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The room was instantaneously lit with blinding lights the moment the switch
was flipped.
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I wasn’t in the best of health at the time, so I didn’t Instantly Identify his voice
when I heard it, and it wasn’t until then that I realized who else was in the
room with me.
Sebastian, who was dressed impably in a suit that entuated the
perfection of his figure, approached me with his hands stuffed into the
pockets of his pants as he stopped at the foot of the bed. He looked at me
with a serious expression on his face, and the air around him was tinged with
an icy chill.
“Where am I?” I asked, my voice was scratchy and hoarse. “What are you
going to do to me?” Deep lines creased my forehead as I stared at the man
who was standing ramrod–straight and shrouded in an indescribable chill.
Uneasiness gripped me.
I tore my gaze away from him and let my gaze roam around the room, but as
soon as I realized that this was the same ce where I had given myself to
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him, my heart leaped into my throat,
Did Sebastian bring me here? Why?
In a fit of anxiousness, I began to fiddle with the fabric of the sheets with my
fingers. I regarded him with suspicion as I went over in my thoughts the
possible reasons as to why he had brought me back to this ce,
“So… you don’t remember what you said to me, huh?” The man’s lips were
twisted into an indifferent arc, and his eyes were so iced cold that they
chilled the bones in my body.
What’s he talking about?
“I… I don’t understand…” I was a little uneasy about him. I squeezed my eyes
shut… trying to recall what happened, and my eyes widened in horror as I
opened them.
My hands clutched the sheets tightly to my chest with both fists, the reality of
my mother’s death hit me so hard. I was able to remember quite vividly how
Juha Tauren had pped me in front of the people who were inside the hall,
on well in how Bryles had arter, iming that she cared about me while in
reality she didn’t
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Everyone’s tul nces of me were like spikes that pinned me to the
ke and set me aze, and it felt like I was the target of a witch hunt.
The memory of the scene emerged once more in my thoughts.
Unconsciously, I bit my lower lip so hard that it bled. Sebastian gazed at my
eyes, which were bing more and more clouded by sadness, as well as
my shoulders, which were slightly shaking.
My eyes widened in surprise when he leaned down. I moved my head back
subconsciously, couldn’t figure out what he was ying at.
His eyes shed with a hint of obsecure dark light and before I could react, he
grasped my chin with his fingers and whispered in my ear… “So, you’re
ying a trick on me, huh?”
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