“Are you okay?”

A figure walked through the dissipating remnants of gunpowder toward Sabrina’s car. He then kicked open the car door and popped his head into the vehicle to check if she was all right.

Sabrina stared at the man wordlessly.

Her mind blanked for several seconds as she took in his appearance. Finally, she nodded groggily at the bespectacled man.

It was Solomon.

As Sabrina crawled out of the car, she stammered, “I-I’m fine.” She looked disheveled, and her tone had lost its usual impudence.

Solomon merely glanced at her coldly.

The city of Clear shared the same climate as Chanaea. Though they were approaching the cold season, it was far from being the sort of weather that warranted thick winterwear.

Thus, Sabrina could not help but notice how out-of-place Sebastian seemed in his wool turtleneck and black tweed trench coat.

More perplexing was the discovery that his appearance seemed much too immaculate for a person who had purportedly gone through a gunfight.

Looking at the man standing before her with effortless elegance, Sabrina frowned in incomprehension.

“Good. Get into my car.”

unaffected by

after, Solomon turned and headed straight

allowed herself one last glance at Solomon before turning to her

drag a trapped

us deal with this. You

approached her before she could re-enter her car, volunteering their services

spun on her heels and awkwardly trudged to

night air reeked of gunpowder and

foot in Solomon’s car. She reveled in the warm temperature of the vehicle and the pleasant aroma of lemons, which did wonders in eliminating the

this was the first time

drove in the direction of the city while

you know that

did you come here?” came

not answering my

taken aback by the curveball he had thrown and explained, “I received an anonymous text telling me that you were here. When I came out of the airport earlier, the rental car driver told me that Willow had sent

and said, “Willow would never do such

“Why not?”

tell Nancy, why would she reach out to you?” He threw this last

Sabrina was dumbfounded.

leak the information to me? Was this all an elaborate front to get me killed? Oh God,

a sobering and

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