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By the time Lily and Axel arrived at the estate, Lily was already feeling better—a little calmer. Still she couldn’t shake off the feeling of fear that had settled at the base of her spine. The estate was quiet—the kind of silence that provided peace.There were less people around, because while Axel held Lily’s trembling form in the car, he quickly realized that she was repulsed by the presence of too many people.He realized that what she had gone through had shattered her trust in having too many people around her. So he secretly messaged his people, telling them to make themselves unavailable—present but unavailable until they’re requested for.“Where is everyone?” Lily asked as she moved into the living room.“They’re probably busy with other things,” Axel responded, scratching the back of his head.Lily looked at him once, the corner of her mouth almost twitching into a smile. But she tamed it just as quickly as it came.She sat curled up on the sofa in the living room, knees dr

“Dad,” Austin breathed a giggle, “why do you want to keep lying to her? Why don’t you go ahead and tell her that it was your son who was behind the attack?”The words were like a punch to Lily’s gut. She froze, her heart stuttering in her chest. “What?” she whispered, her voice thin, fragile.“It was me,” Austin said, his tone drenched in smug satisfaction, his lips curving into a smirk.“Shut your mouth!” Axel growled in warning, stepping toward him, his fists trembling at his sides.Austin didn’t stop. He in fact wanted to taunt Axel further. “I was the one with the mask and the hoodie,” he said, licking the blood from his lip. “The man whose shadow has been taunting you for days. . .”“Shut your fucking mouth, Austin!” Axel roared, his voice shaking the walls, but it only fueled his son’s twisted grin.“And your. . .your supposed man,” Austin sneered, his bloodied face turning toward Lily, “he’s going to let me off the hook for what I did to you because I am his son. You see, Lily,

It was barely a few hours after their conversation that the estate began buzzing with visitors. Sophisticated men and elegant women dressed formally filed into the manor and were led into Axel’s office.And then soon, Austin and Alice arrived. Lily watched the visitors through her window, and she couldn’t help but notice that Alice brought her own formally dressed men and women.Lawyers.She tiptoed out of her room and made her way down the stairs, following the long hallway until she was in front of Axel’s office. She pressed her ear near the door, ready to listen in on their conversation.Inside the office, Axel sat at the head of the table, his fingers clasped tightly together, jaw locked. The tension in the room was thick, almost suffocating. His lawyers sat to his left, their legal pads and laptops open, ready to defend him. And to his right, Alice, Austin and their legal team sat. Alice sat with perfect posture, her face a mask of cold detachment. Beside her, Austin leaned back

By the time Lily was out in the driveway, her father’s car was already there to pick her up.A little backtracking here: while Axel and his legal team were busy negotiating terms with Alice’s team, Lily had quietly reached out to her father, asking him to come for her. Now. . .She opened the back door and slid into the backseat. The moment she closed the door behind her, Lily scooted closer to her father and leaned against him. Mr. Daniels’s face contorted with displeasure, his face lined with concern. He wasted no time wrapping his arms around her. His embrace was warm and it felt like. . . a safety net she desperately needed.“Shh, it’s okay,” he murmured, his large hand stroking her back gently. “It’s going to be okay, my princess.”Lily buried her face deeper into her father’s shoulder, her tears soaking into his shirt. “I’m fine, Dad,” she said, even when her voice betrayed her with a tremble. “I just. . .I just need a moment.”Mr. Daniels leaned back slightly, tipping her chi

When Axel walked into his home in the dead of night, the aroma of something delicious—of his favorite meal wafted through his nose. He stopped dead in his tracks, his brows pulling into furrows as he remembered instructing his chef not to make dinner.He began approaching the kitchen but then he stopped at the dinning. The dining is perfectly set up. With soft candles burning, rose petals scattered across the silk cloth covering the dining table, and elegant dinnerwares sprawled out.Do I have a visitor? He wondered.But he didn’t dwell too long in his thought when Lily walked out of the kitchen with a serving spoon.She quickly noticed Axel’s presence and that made her stop in her tracks, a gasp falling free from her throat.Both their eyes locked and they stared intensely for seconds that could pass for hours.In Axel’s heart, he was confused and happy all at once, but he couldn’t bring himself to show her his excitement even if he wanted to and he didn’t know why.“Hey,” Lily final