Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 16

Early next morning, Tegan flew off for a medical conference abroad.

As Stella got a ring from Susanna, she said on the phone, "Looks like your cousin's gonna pack on pounds for a bit longer. Tegan's out of the country, mentioned something about being away for a month." "How'd you know? Tegan rang you up?"

Stella replied, "Yeah, got a call around one in the morning."

"One in the morning? To share travel plans? Has she lost her marbles?"

It wasn't like everyone could just flip their sleep schedules upside down because Tegan decided to.

Stella sighed, "It was about Ursula."

"Ursula? What about her?"

Stella said, "Ursula ended up in the hospital last night, hit with a bunch of illnesses."

"A bunch? How many? Like what?"

Susanna was shocked at the news.

Just yesterday, spotting Ursula with Yorick near the maternity ward had them betting on a baby bump, not a bout of illnesses.

Stella shared, "Uterine cancer, heart disease, and seemingly liver cancer too."

The news made Susanna gasp, "All, all that? And she has uterine cancer?"

knowledge, their reaction to the uterine cancer

as Susanna heard the uterine cancer, her

I know? Tegan said she's not one to spread rumors. She won't gossip, let's not add to

Ursula and Yorick's future in a bind. Which family would accept someone with such health issues as their first

Quarry elders already frowned upon Ursula's background as a maid's daughter. Her illnesses only added

need to tread carefully. With Ursula's condition, the Quarry elders will push for you and Yorick to tie the knot

late to find someone else, so they would hold onto Stella at all cost, especially given her Larkin family ties. This

Susanna's remind was right.

keeping a close eye on Ursula; her being in the hospital last night had already been noticed by them. Besides, they'd learned of Ursula's illnesses; among them, what they couldn't accept

...

at her design studio, received a call from Yorick's mother, "Star, come to the manor this noon, will you?

have some things to attend

really was tied up. The project StarRiver offered this time was

signed, "You don't want

Stella was speechless.

"Or I

I'll swing by

insisted on meeting her, thinking it was better to clear things up in person. After all, people's attitude was palpable when talking face to

She picked up, "Hello."

"It's me."

from

fact, Yorick was also irked by calling her, because each time she got Yorick's

in the list. Right now this number was unknown, yet unexpectedly, she'd block-list the number few moments

pick you up. Did you say you'll come to