Chapter 149

• The moment I reached out to him, arms open and vulnerable, I caught the faintest flicker of something deeper in Damien’s icy eyes a crack in that frozen world he kept so carefully guarded.
• “AHHH! They’re coming! Damien, hurry!” I barely managed to throw myself against him in a messy, desperate motion.
• And just like that, the robots hesitated, reluctant to touch me once I was wrapped around him. It felt like magic his presence was a shield.