18 Floors Above the Apocalypse

Chapter 395

Stella held the walkie-talkie tight, her sharp, icy stare fixed on Julia and her daughter. "Yeah, we've got a situation here." Daniel was in a good mood. "Go on, I'm listening."

"Your precious Julia paid a homeless guy to kill me. Thought I wouldn't make it, didn't she? Well, surprise, I'm still here. I've got all the proof I need. You better get down here now, or I can't promise your wife and daughter will still be in one piece when you arrive." Daniel was stunned but quickly gathered himself. "Stella, if this is true, I'll make sure justice is done. Don't do anything crazy."

"I'm not interested in justice. I want payback."

Stella switched off the walkie-talkie and marched straight towards Julia.

Julia, realizing she was trapped, grabbed Lillian's hand to make a run for it, but a snarling dog blocked their way.

""Ah!" Julia screamed in terror.

She tripped and nearly fell, but Stella yanked her by the hair and slammed her face into the glass door!

This place used to be a glass factory, and the mall was stocked with valuable goods, so all the glass was shatterproof and bulletproof.

The glass was fine, but Julia's face wasn't. Blood poured from a gash on her head.

Two of her teeth were knocked out, and blood gushed from her nose.

Stella didn't let up, smashing Julia's head into the glass three more times, leaving her face bloodied and her body slumped on the ground like a broken doll, twitching helplessly, unable to even cry for help. Lillian screamed and lunged at Stella.

Stella didn't hold back, slapping her hard across the face.

The force sent Lillian crashing into the glass, seeing stars.

Holding her numb, throbbing cheek, Lillian looked at Stella in shock. "Stella, how could you hit me?"

to get me, and you did nothing, even encouraged her. For

willing to do anything to survive. Stella didn't believe for a second that Lillian was unaware of Julia's malice; she was all

mercy, but by her own grit and

rage. "We don't even

know me?" Stella laughed. "Yet you screamed

was a slip in the heat of the moment that Stella wouldn't let go, but Lillian was quick to retort. "Do you realize

marry you? Does he acknowledge your child with another man as his own? If so, he's dishonoring his uniform by having an affair; if not, you're the one smearing a soldier's name." Lillian didn't expect Stella to be so tough, ready to

to bet it all, but Lillian was

trap laid by Stella, and Lillian

and besides, Daniel was a high-ranking officer. Escalating the situation would do her and her daughter

quickly. There was no point in

having it, and he lunged at them

in the work center, but by the time they arrived, the scene was already crowded with

to disperse the crowd and marched

still reeling from the beating, now

that her attempt at murder was exposed. Even if Stella

in

Stella was his biological daughter, Julia's fate

never should have impulsively sought out thugs to deal with her. Thinking of Daniel's sharp and indifferent gaze

couldn't give Daniel the chance to

to die,

charged at the patrolling soldiers. "Murderer! That crazy woman is killing

her face to look more pitiful and reached for the soldier's

she could just kill Stella, the truth would never come out. Even if Daniel investigated later, it would look like

her daughter to be so reckless, but she knew the first to act has the advantage. Stella showed no mercy, so why should she care for a daughter she never