Chapter 29
“Ms. Summed
The reporters buzzed around Estelle, their voices chattering incessantly in her ears.
Someone lost control and shoved her, sending her crashing to the ground.
just as she struggled to get up, a sudden cry tang out. “Someone has been hitl Mrs. Grant just hit someone!”
As soon as that person shouted, every camera turned toward Estelle, flashes going off in a frenzy.
The overwhelming noise and the sea of unfamiliar faces–each one like a masked specter–drowned her in a suffocating darkness, making it hard to breathe.
Then, a low and chilling voice cut through the chaos from outside the crowd, “Move.”
Everyone fumed around in a daze, only to see a tall, imposing man standing behind them.
Estelle’s pupils contracted.
While the reporters were momentarily stunned, he strode over to her. His gaze landed on her injured ankle, his dark eyes narrowing slightly.
“I’m taking you to the hospital,” he said.
With that, be helped her up.
Recognizing Michael, the reporters instantly perked up and swarmed forward like bees to flowers.
But the Imposing air he exuded kept them from acting as recklessly as they had with Estelle.
sir, what is your relationship with Ms. Summer? Are you aware that she’s been involved with multiple men?”
Michael’s piercing gaze locked onto the female reporter who had spoken. A cold, sharp glint thickened through his eyes. “Are you interrogating me?”
The reporter, who had been the most aggressive toward Estelle, had come with an agenda–to throw out the most vicious accusations possible.
utter another word. But now, under Michael’s stars, her breath hitched, and she found herself unable to
The sheer pressure he exuded was suffocating. It was as if ber heart had stopped beating under his gaze.
Michael lowered his eyes briefly, glancing of Estelle’s injured ankle. Then, he said, “You sprained your ankle. I’m taking you to the hospital.
He lifted her into his arms without giving her a chance to object.
At that moment, another deep, cold voice rang our clearly in the quiet of the night. “What’s going on? That’s quite the spectacle.”
The man’s voice was cool and sharp.
Everyone tuned toward the sound.
bathed in the moon’s pale glow, the man’s sharply defined features seemed enated in a thin layer of frost
He stood there quietly, his gaze deep and chilling Itis finely shaped lips curved into digint, iisdifferent smile, carrying an unspoken lunt of mockery and disdam
The reporters trope in place. “julian?“.
The woman standing beside him spoke softly. “The cundis online are completely baseless. Please yon’t make things difficult toi Ms. Summer…”
Only then did the crowd notice Susan at las side.
She was at the very center of the scandal Reporters had beentrying to get a statement from her for days, but the security at her hospital was airtight–impossible
Yet just asthey were about to swarm her, Julian’s icy gaze sliced through the air like a blade
The excitement ontle reporters! Laces froze in an instant
His expression was cold and unyielding. That’s mungli for today”
