ra

e ans

of the snowy peaks ech

ng up the volume. "Elara, are

atching his sharply defined f

him I wasn't th

windpipe completely pierced by a br

e princess attitude strikes again. She's probably sitting

r. Today is Serena's birthday, why

othly at a heavily guarded luxu

ago. Tents, a roaring bonfire, fresh flowers, and e

ng. The pilot collected the rest of his hush money

Dante pulled out his phone. He op

giving me a ten-minute ultima

minutes, we're leaving you r

is sleeve. "Dante, is Elara really mad at me? Ac

hand in return, his expre

ed her softly. "She's just using th

ely devoid of any ripples. I wasn't shocked, nor was

ring those words would have kep

unreasonable. I would have explained to him over and

genuinely

ambushed by a rival cartel high i

of gunfire exploded

d Serena, using their own bodies t

without a single backward glance, leaving

hattered the roc

d tumbled backward o

onto a thick, rough tree roo

as a pitch-black,

-air, screaming unt

am finally found me. By the time I was pulled up, my fingers we

only Julian was in the room, frantically

eren't there at all; th

eveloped a mild fever, they stayed up the en

an complained. "You just had to fall off a cliff

ped severe acrophobia and Post-

balcony would make my whole body tr

believed it was

trick-a pathetic act I put on to gain sy

mp, the bonfir

rate fondant cake with the n

, make

closed her eyes, the candlelight ref

ith a strawberry, and handed the cream-fil