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?"

within his family. But what about you? Aside from visiting him here, can you even step foot in any

with malice. Obviously, she couldn't; those old coots

found Ursula's reaction

back venomously, "Don't get too comfortable. As long as I'm around,

a

fish in the sea. I'm

the wedding as soon as possible with a man that still harbored certain feelings for his first love seemed less of a loss and more of a relief. Ursula stiffened, "What do

at Stella in

Yorick? Stella's indifference seemed like a

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

utterly pleased at 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

any time with Ursula, she turned to leave, when Ursula, attempting to play the victim, suddenly reached out and gripped her wrist, "Star, I just came back for a check-up. I don't want to ruin things between you and Yorick.

Stella snapped, "Let go."

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

toad fell to the ground from high above, seemingly quite

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

Ursula was staging another scene, and

nearby, her lips curling into a smile. Stepping forward, she grabbed

screeched in

to wrong her, Stella

not far away, howled