Ditching Me for His 'Soulmate'? His Loss. Next Stop: My New Life novel Chapter 93

Chapter 6

The man’s voice cut through the boisterous laughter like a shard of ice, sharp and unyielding.

Suddenly, the entire hotel lobby fell into a heavy, suffocating silence.

With purposeful strides, he closed the distance between us in just a few steps. His dark, intense eyes scanned the crowd holding me captive, his tone freezing the air around him as he spoke with absolute authority.

“Let her go.”

The command was brief, but it brooked no argument.

Almost instantly, the hands gripping my arms loosened and released me, as though they had been seared by fire.

Sage’s confident smirk vanished in an instant, her face draining of color until it was nearly ghostly pale. She instinctively recoiled a half-step, her lips trembling with a fear she couldn’t hide.

The word “Brother…” caught in her throat, barely a whisper, thick with unmistakable dread.

A few of Sage’s followers, sensing the shift in power, couldn’t resist speaking up.

“Sage, with your brother here, what’s there to be afraid of? Tell your brother to toss this delivery girl out right now!”

“Why are you so nervous, Sage? Didn’t you say your brother spoils you rotten?”

“We’re just teaching this woman a lesson for causing trouble in the hotel!”

Sterling didn’t respond to their jeers. Instead, his gaze dropped to my coat, stained with wine and dotted with shards of glass. His jaw tightened, and his eyes flickered with a mix of pain and frustration.

“Fi-fiancée?!” Sage’s scream pierced the silence, her eyes wide with disbelief as she stared first at me, then at Sterling.

“That’s impossible! Sterling, she’s deceiving you! She’s just some broke delivery girl! Her name’s Willa Lynn, and she’s Reed’s girlfriend! How could she possibly be your fiancée?”

“She’s been delivering food here for two years—I’ve known her forever! There’s no way someone like her could be the Lynn family heiress!”

Reed’s shock was palpable. He looked from Sterling’s protective stance to the expensive jacket now shielding my disheveled form, stained though it was, and then into Sterling’s eyes—eyes filled with fierce concern and anger.

A strange, almost absurd thought crossed his mind, yet it felt undeniably real.

“Willa… you…”