Chapter 39

Mia POV

I blinked twice to be certain it wasn’t a dream. If it was, I didn’t want to wake up from it.

I descended further and went to stand before her. She took my hand in hers and flashed a smile that could warm up the cold.

She was real! I wasn’t dreaming.

“Is it really you?”

She nodded and pulled me into her arms.

“How….how could this happen? You were dead”

“I wasn’t. I had to make people believe it to protect us”

“What people?”

“I’ll explain everything later, child”

I nodded and realized she wasn’t alone.

A muscular man who was thrice my size stood tall behind her, his face blank as he stared at me. He had curly shoulder-length curly, dark brown hair and a pair of hazel eyes that added to his charms. He was handsome to say the least. I tilted my head.

Was he a bodyguard? But why did he look a lot like me?

I eyed him warily then I smelled his scent.

Cinnamon and sandalwood.

I came to