My Great Escape Led Me to You novel Chapter 219

She hadn’t even managed to clear the chaos from her mind when a voice exploded beside her ear.

“Emily Blair! How dare you treat Isabella like that!”

Emily blinked furiously, fighting to force the mist from her eyes. She pressed her palm to her chest, wracked by a violent fit of coughing.

She’d only just been pulled from the water—her nose and mouth still burning from the amount she’d swallowed. She couldn’t stop coughing, as if her lungs might be wrenched out with every hack. Soaked through and shivering, her whole body felt raw and miserable.

She finally managed a breath, ready to speak, when suddenly a hand shot out, grabbing her by the collar and yanking her upright.

She struggled to focus on the face in front of her.

Andrew Lane.

His expression was sharp, his anger palpable, every line of his face drawn tight with hostility. His dark, narrow eyes glittered with a cold, merciless light, as if she were standing before some unfeeling judge from the depths of hell—scrutinizing her every flinch, every flicker of emotion, like she was something rotten he couldn’t bear to touch.

The veins on the back of Andrew’s hand bulged as he gripped her collar with punishing force. For a moment, Emily thought he wanted to crush her throat, not just hold her still.

Andrew’s voice was rough and low, rasping from deep in his chest. “Emily Blair, what the hell is wrong with you?”

Emily winced, struggling to force out a reply, but another wave of coughing rose up and strangled her words.

Andrew was so close—close enough that she could see every individual hair of his eyebrows.

She forced herself to swallow the cough, lowering her voice. “I—”

Andrew pressed closer, his tone even heavier. “Are you really so oblivious? Isabella is pregnant.”

His glare darkened, full of loathing. “Are you trying to kill her?”

Maybe it was the cold, her drenched clothes clinging to her skin, or the wind slicing through the gaps, but a tremor ran through Emily’s whole body, burrowing all the way to her bones.

She tried to speak. “I—”

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