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"It was not easy for Nicolas to lose the person on the motorcycle. He had been chasing them for almost half an hour. He did not know who he was, but he could see that his presence upset the girl. In the end, Nicolas realized that the best way to get the man away was to take the girl to his house. He lived in an exclusive complex, so the guy would be stuck trying to get in, which would give the girl time to stop seeing him and calm down.

After parking in front of his house, he touched the shoulder of the girl who was crying silently, but with such great pain that Nicolas' own heart ached. "Are you all right?" Nicolas touched the girl's arm. "We've already lost them."

Mia had been watching through the car's mirror the whole time, seeing how Esteban was chasing them and signaling them to stop. She hadn't been paying much attention to the road, so she didn't know where she was. When she realized that she had gotten into the car of a stranger, she was afraid of what could happen to her because of her carelessness. "Where are we?" Mia dared to ask after a while. "We're at my house. I didn't know where else to go."

Mia looked down at her cell phone and decided to send a message to Rebeca to pick her up. But at that moment, a call from Esteban's number came, followed by many messages. When she saw that the girl didn't answer, Esteban was quite worried to see how Mia left with a stranger. Not only did Esteban call, but Mia also had calls and messages from Rebeca and Sara, worried about her whereabouts. Although in the end, something in Mia told her to trust Nicolas. She felt comfortable and safe. "I'm fine, don't worry. Just tell my grandparents that I'm with you."

After that, Mia turned off her cell phone. She wanted to be calm at least for the rest of the night. Nicolas could only look at the girl with some intrigue, trying to decipher the complexity of the person in front of him. It was not what he thought. It seemed that she was always running away from something. "Do you want to come in?" Nicolas broke the silence in the car. "It's a little cold."

Mia didn't answer; she just gave him a sad smile in agreement and let the boy lead her inside the beautiful house. She wasn't aware of the path she was walking; she only knew that the boy's hands on her shoulders felt comforting.

"Stay in the living room. I'll go get a blanket," the boy said as he got up from the sofa. But before he could leave, he felt a small figure clinging to him. "It's okay. I'm not going anywhere," he reassured her.

"I can go with you. I just don't want to be alone," Mia whispered.

Nicolas took Mia's hand and led her to the room where there were blankets to take the chill off Mia's body. The girl had come out so quickly that she didn't think to protect herself from the cold of the night. Without realizing it, she was shivering, and her clothes were not the most suitable for the autumn night wind.

The boy approached the closet while Mia remained seated on the bed. In the end, neither of them returned to the sofa, but instead, they hugged each other on the bed. Mia refused to let Nicolas' strong arms leave her waist, and after a few minutes, the two of them fell asleep.

Nicolas' faint heartbeat completely calmed Mia. The girl who always needed medicine to sleep was so relaxed that her face stopped being sad and showed a tenderness that few knew. This put a smile on Nicolas' face. It had been so long since a girl had slept on his chest that his heart was on fire.