Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 3

Stella has just left the office when she spotted Ursula stepping out of a car.

Yorick's assistant, Orion, was at the ready, holding the door open for her as she handed him a few shopping bags.-

"Distribute these among the secretaries, will you?"

Her demeanor screamed of a lady of the manor.

Orion, ever respectful, took the bags, "Thank you, Ms. Larkin."

Ursula offered a soft nod in acknowledgment and turned, her gaze meeting Stella's across the distance.

Stella's eyes narrowed slightly.

Ursula paused for a second before she approached Stella with a tone as soft as an elder sister's, "Star."

When the Larkins had brought her back, they mentioned Ursula was older by just an hour.

Her tender voice was for Orion's benefit. But her eyes, locked on Stella, were full of challenge.

As she drew closer, Ursula's voice dropped to a whisper, "You're his fiancée, yet he has me come to his company. What does that tell you about your place?"

can have any position within his family. But what about you? Aside from visiting him

with malice.

Ursula's reaction deeply

comfortable. As long as I'm around, your wedding to him will

lips curved into a smirk, her demeanor

the sea. I'm not fixated

a man that still harbored certain feelings for his first love seemed less of

at Stella in

with Yorick? Stella's indifference seemed like a facade,

it clear? Without Yorick, I can find someone else. But you? He's the only man willing to marry you, yet you can't

the sight of the warmth on Ursula's face falling. The latter's disrespect seemed to Stella that she must have forgotten how she was

to play the victim, suddenly reached out and gripped her wrist, "Star,

Stella snapped, "Let go."

away,

sounded like a toad fell to the ground

Yorick's furious voice soon echoed

another scene,

watched the "actress" Ursula as well as a fountain nearby, her lips

in

head was submerged into the icy water; suffocation invading in her, she struggled violently. However, Stella gripped her fiercely, reckoning since Ursula's acting was to wrong her, Stella might

witnessing the scene, Yorick, who was not far away, howled