Chapter 2

I left Noah’s arms and looked around in panic. Where was he?

My body reacted faster than my brain, and I moved away from Noah.

I wanted to open the car door, only to find it locked.

I broke down and slapped the car window, shouting, “I want to get out!”

Noah frowned slightly, confused. “Avery, what’s wrong?”

The driver unlocked the doors, and after I got out, that icy gaze disappeared, and I gasped for air.

“Did you hear his voice?”

“No, Avery, are you too tired and having hallucinations?”

Noah walked toward me with concern.

I wiped the sweat from my forehead, my heart pounding wildly, and told myself that the dead could not come back to life.

I was too tired and had hallucinated.

I got back into the car and looked at my phone’s lock screen, which he had strongly demanded I change.

Because he wanted to appear by my side at all times.

On the lock screen, he wore a white coat and smiled at me through the camera, like an iceberg melting.

Those black eyes seemed to be studying me through the phone, and the phone fell to the floor.

The screen faced upward, and the corners of his mouth lifted as his gaze locked tightly on me, his stubbornness and triumph showing fully in his eyes.

He would not let me go, and I could not escape!

I turned off the screen, not daring to look again.

After the car gradually moved away from the cemetery, I calmed down.

Noah moved closer and closer to me, shoulder touching shoulder, and I swallowed, hesitating over whether I should get out of the car.

Maybe I really was just too tired.

Julian’s warning echoed beside my ear, and I could not forget it, so when I shifted inward, my back pressed against the car window and I had nowhere left to retreat.

“Avery, you have dark circles under your eyes, and your lips are pale without any color. Should we stop by the hospital and get you checked?”

Noah placed his hand on my shoulder with concern, as if he wanted to pull me into his arms, and the concern in his eyes did not seem fake.

“I’m fine. I probably just didn’t rest well.”

He leaned his head over and held my cheek, forcing his forehead to touch mine.

I saw his clear eyes, felt his warm breath, and because we were too close, I could see every tremble of his curled lashes.

Noah frowned and asked, “Be good, Avery. Let’s go to the hospital, okay?”

In an instant, Julian’s sinister voice sounded beside my ear again, as if he were lying on my shoulder and speaking into my ear.

“Avery, you’re getting less and less obedient. You even dare to disobey my orders! How could I ever bully you? You’re the one I love most.”

“No, no, no, Avery. There’s a man beside you, so I have to punish you!”

His two sentences made my body tremble. It was Julian!

He was a madman.

There was a slight cold sensation on my neck, and a pair of sharp teeth pierced my artery. My vision dimmed, and I felt my blood slowly draining away.

Paleness and weakness swept through my whole body, and in the next second, a cold tongue stimulated my senses.