Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 28

Ronald raised an eyebrow. But Stella threw her arms around his neck, sobbing so hard she could barely catch her breath, as if the world had wronged her deeply. Her instinctual action shattered the anger in Ronald's eyes. His hands, hanging in mid-air, finally wrapped around her slender waist as Stella cried hysterically. Stella clung to Ronald's neck tighter, "Is Mom okay?"

Ronald held her, "You still remember she's your mom?"

He had thought that after she went back to the Larkins, she had completely forgotten everything about Ferrowland!

Stella hugged him even tighter, her sobs growing more pitiful.

...

Two hours later.

Stella had recounted the reasons for leaving Ferrowland three years ago, through intermittent sobs and tears.

In her three years in Portis City, she hadn't cried once. Not even when the Larkins treated her poorly, but mentioning everything about Ferrowland made her break down.

The Quinns had always been her rock, and Ronald, her emotional support. Losing everything overnight was like being in purgatory, something she dared not revisit over the past three years.

As people said, her departure came when the Quinn family faced its toughest storms. If possible, she wished to have stayed by Ronald's side.

joined forces with her brother Xander Schultz during the tumult

threatened to kill her mother; in that case, Stella had no choice but to agree. Leaving the Quinns meant no

no match for the Schultzes. Ronald and Xander

her departure could grant the Quinns a moment of peace, she was willing to fight for that

Ronald heard, the colder his expression became, "They

choice. They used Mom's life

slightly, "And you just cut all ties

"I didn't dare!"

year after leaving the Quinns, Regina kept threatening her! This was also a major reason

over the past three years, taking over Ferrowland's underworld, she still

had laid it all out, and yet Ronald's sternness only made her feel more aggrieved. Her eyes reddened as she gave Ronald

"What about Regina?"

woman, she wished she could

answered, "Crippled.

put her

his familiar gaze showing his anger hadn't

at his shirt, looking up at him silently, her eyes full

"Useless, getting bullied and still playing the victim? What have I

taught me everything except how to be

could ever hurt her, just like with the