Chapter 450

Valeria was pale and soft, and whenever she spoke, her eyes crinkled when she smiled. She was like an angel out of a storybook. Lucas never forgot how she offered to sit with him. "Jane, I can get you out of here. I have money. I can give you the same kind of life you had with the Grants—wealth, comfort, and one without worries. We can leave the country, disappear somewhere nobody knows us, and start over. "Gabriella told me you're Wendy's daughter. She and Gabriella had planned this whole abduction. If it weren't for me, you'd already be dead." He was the one who had set the place on fire. The flames had started on the first floor, but the second floor was also on fire. It indicated that time was running out. "It's either you die," Lucas offered, "or you come with me. Decide for yourself." Then, he added, "At least I loved you long before Sebastian ever did." Valeria never imagined that Lucas was the same scruffy kid from elementary school. "I remember you had a different l