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She turned to run the other way.
But the second she turned around, she felt a harsh chill wash over her-Jonah had already grabbed her and thrown her into the fountain.
Her fever had been recurring the past few days,
Even earlier in John’s room, she’d felt lightheaded. She knew the fever was back.
Now, submerged in icy water, her entire body seized up. It felt like she was trapped in a winter storm.
Even worse-her calf cramped up.
The pain overwhelmed her, and even though she could swim, she couldn’t get herself to the surface. “Lily, you really deserve to die!”
Sean held Mathilda carefully and protectively.
His tenderness was only for Mathilda. When his eyes fell on Lily, they were cold and merciless.
“The Ginger family raised you for years. Mathilda is my real sister. How dare you hurt her again? You really are a thankless stray!”
Jonah stood at the edge of the fountain, towering above Lily, his face full of contempt. “You bully Mathilda over and over again. You deserve to die. Apologize to her! If she won’t forgive you, I swear I won’t let you off tonight!”
Lily would never apologize to Mathilda.
She wanted to scream that she’d done nothing wrong-that they were the blind ones. That Mathilda was shameless, always using vile tricks to hurt her.
But her calf cramped harder. She couldn’t breathe through the water, couldn’t even form a full sentence.
Her head was growing heavier. Her body colder by the second.
And in that haze, Lily felt like she was back in that winter long ago-drenched in hopelessness.
Back then too, Mathilda had falsely accused her of pushing her into the water.
And the Ginger soms she’d called “brother”, convinced she had tried in harm their preciou over a decade didn’t believe a word she said. They were
So they threw her into a rushing river.
She swam desperately for the shore.
Every time she got close, they kicked her back in the freezing water
Again and again, until she couldn’t fight anymore and passed on
Now, the fountain water was just as cold as that men
And her body, wrapped in that icy flow, felt like in cold call in anymore.
And the two brothers she had once cared for so deeply-were still standing above her, condemning her like they couldn’t wait to see her dead.
To be frozen and drowned like this-Lily couldn’t accept it.
This can’t be how I die.
But no one ne came to help her.
Her body felt stiff, too frozen to fight anymore.
The water gradually swallowed her nose and mouth. No matter how desperately she clung to life, she couldn’t fight death off.
Just as she thought darkness would completely consume her, she heard James’s voice.
“Lily”
He rushed toward her, bathed in moonlight and starlight.
The darkness and the cold were driven away by the light.
She was pulled into his arms-held tightly.
In that instant. Lily felt like a flower had bloomed in the midst of a bitter wind.
James wrapped one arm around her, braced the other against the edge of the fountain, and lifted her out of the water.
The wind blew past, and Lily couldn’t hold back a sneeze. Then came the painful coughing
She knew James didn’t care about her romantically. He had saved her purely out of principle, but even so, she was overwhelmed with gratitude.
And she was right-James saving her had nothing to do with love. It came from his sense of justice.
She had come out tonight with him. He was responsible for bringing her back safely
When staff at Gold Towers came to clean the private booth, they noticed her phone had fallen on the floor. Something felt off. They checked the security footage and saw John forcibly taking her away.
They knew it was a room James had reserved and called him right away.
She was willing to divorce him, to set him free. So of course, before the divorce was finalized, he would protect her.
He hadn’t hesitated. He had Ashton drive him here immediately.
He never expected to find Jonah pushing her into a fountain-nearly killing her.
“What are you doing here?”
Jonah frowned.
He knew Lily could swim. He was sure falling into the fountain wouldn’t kill her.
They hadn’t even properly punished her yet, hadn’t stood up for Mathilda. The last thing he wanted was James interfering.
And when he thought about how James had cradled Lily as they came out of the water, Sean’s face turned ugly.
His gaze turned ice cold as it locked on James. “Lily pushed Mathilda into the fountain. She has to pay for that”
“If you still consider me a friend, stay out of Ginger family business tonight.”
James had close ties with both Jonal and Sean.
He and Jonah had been college roommates. He and Sean were high school classmates.
Before the accident that left him comatose, they’d been tight.
Normally, James didn’t like meddling in others’ affairs.
But his grandmother had told him to treat Lily like a sister and look after her. And besides, two grown men ganging up on a woman-that was clearly out of line. The values he’d been raised with wouldn’t allow him to stand by.
He glanced at Lily, still shaking from the cold. Then he turned his eyes to the Ginger brothers.
His refined, noble features slowly took on a cold, mocking edge.
“You say Lily pushed Mathilda… Did either of you actually see it happen?”
“We.. we didn’t….”
Jonah and Sean exchanged a glance.
Neither had seen it with their own eyes.
But they believed Mathilda wouldn’t lie.
James..”
Mathilda desperately wanted James to believe Lily was nasty and manipulative, to hate her completely. She looked at him tearfully.
“They didn’t see her push me, but I’m not lying. She rushed over and shoved me into the fountain! I don’t know what I did to deserve this-why she keeps bullying and hurting me. If reconnecting with our parents made her upset… I can leave. I really can.”
She tilted her face up, eyes brinuming with tears, gazing at James like the picture of innocence.
Hoping he’d see Lily’s evil for what it was and take her side, protect her.
The moment she said she would leave the Ginger family, Jonah and Sean’s hearts clenched with pain and panic,
But James has always been sharp
Mathilda’s little act wasn’t going to fool him.
He curled his lips slightly, mockery flickering at the comers. “People who actually want to leave… don’t talk alsout it every day.”
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