The sudden attack caught me completely off guard. I instinctively tried to break free, but she was gripping me tightly, showing no mercy at all. Before I could even steady myself, a sharp scream suddenly came from beside us. “Ah—psycho!” It was Maxwell. Seeing the look he had painstakingly created for me ruined, he reacted as if his tail had been stepped on. “Let go of her—now!” Before the words had even finished leaving his mouth, he had already rushed forward, grabbed Evangeline by the hair, and yanked hard without the slightest courtesy. Evangeline cried out in pain and instinctively loosened her grip on me. At that very moment, a low, cold male voice suddenly rang out— “What are you doing?” Maxwell and I both looked up at the same time. At the end of the corridor, Sebastian

