Last night, Lilia had drifted between sleep and wakefulness, trapped in a roaring inferno. The flames pressed around her, choking her with smoke. She struggled to escape, but her limbs refused to obey her commands.At last, she collapsed to the ground, the fire inching ever closer. She knew she was about to be consumed. In that moment, she felt nothing but despair. She truly believed she would die there. But just when she had accepted her fate, someone burst through the flames and swept her into his arms.The blaze surged toward them, but he wrapped his tall, solid frame around her, shielding her from every danger the flames could bring. She tried to lift her head to see the face of her rescuer, but the smoke blurred everything into darkness. She could only curl against him, listening to the steady, powerful rhythm of his heart.She knew then that it was Sebastian.The very man she had once tormented and even injured, yet he had always treated her with gentle courtesy. Not out of r
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