CHAPTER 78

  Elizabeth's Point Of View

  "I want you to be mine."

  I pull away from him and stumble back. I'm shocked, I'm petrified, I'm frozen in time by the wrongness of this hour, this moment.

  "That's not possible," I find my voice, a mere whisper.

  "Why?" Sebastian closes the distance between us, his eyes searching my own.

  "Tell me the reason, the problem and I will fix it..."

  My face crumples. "This is against the law, against nature."

  I close my eyes and turn away from him. I want to shut him out, shut my heart out, shut my mind out, shut out everything in this whole universe. Be numb, simply exist and be teleported to a time when everything's back to the way it should be.

  Two familiar arms wrap around me from behind and pull me to a warm chest, holding me in an embrace that should not comfort me, but it does, it does and I hate it with every fiber of my being.