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?"

knew Julia was out to get me,

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

was alive, not because of their mercy, but by her own grit and

quivered with rage. "We don't even know

laughed. "Yet you screamed my name in

wouldn't let go, but Lillian was quick to retort. "Do

family?" Stella almost burst out laughing. "Did Daniel 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

willing to bet it all, but Lillian was

laid by Stella, and

officer. Escalating the

point in a brawl

Cooper, the dog, wasn't having it, and he

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

soldiers shouted to disperse the crowd and marched into the mall

beating, now

murder was exposed. Even if Stella had no evidence, any inquiry

in the face of an actual

was his biological daughter, Julia's fate would be

was truly frightened. She never should have impulsively sought out thugs to deal with

couldn't give Daniel the chance

to

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

the blood all over her face to look more pitiful and

Stella, the truth would never come out. Even

has the advantage. Stella showed no mercy, so why should