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?"

expression turned ice cold. She scoffed, "As long as I wish, I can have any position within his family. But what about you? Aside from visiting him here, can you even step

on Stella, suddenly dripped with malice. Obviously, she couldn't; those old coots

Ursula's reaction

get too comfortable. As long as I'm

curved into a smirk, her demeanor

fish in the sea. I'm not

breaking off the wedding as soon as possible with a man that still harbored certain feelings for

at Stella in

indifference seemed like a facade,

Without Yorick, I can find someone else. But you? He's the only man willing to marry you, yet you can't even have a proper wedding." Ursula, already pale, turned livid at Stella's

on Ursula's face falling. The latter's disrespect seemed to Stella that

to waste any time with Ursula, she turned to leave, when Ursula, attempting to play the victim, suddenly reached out and gripped her

Stella snapped, "Let go."

by Ursula's touch, she attempted to pull away, but then

toad fell to the ground from high

could react, Yorick's furious voice soon echoed from not far,

staging another scene, and

her lips curling into

screeched in

gripped her fiercely, reckoning since Ursula's acting was to wrong her, Stella might as well satisfy her.

far away, howled furiously as he rushed

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