Chapter 40

Cloudia sighed, glancing toward the hospital room, "Okay, enough. Don't you have Beckett Patel's birthday bash to attend tonight? Better hurry up, don't want to be late."

"What about Stella?"

Jaxon was worried about Ursula.

Cloudia said, "Once we locate her, I'll go talk to her."

It had become clear to her that intimidation wouldn't work on Stella.

So, sweet-talking it was.

For now, getting Tegan back was the priority.

...

Stella got into the car, and realized there was someone else in the passenger seat.

"Finley?"

Especially in surgery, he had never failed,

"You little rascal, quite the hide-and-seek champion. Your brother had a hell of a time looking for you. If you were still no news, I suspected he might start digging to

phone, causing Stella's

Ronald said, "No talking."

scrolling through her contacts, messages, Twitter, and

he was snooping on

feeling conflicted, snatched her phone back, "What are you doing? I've been

school, but

out a low chuckle, and with

protested, "Hey, Finley's

said that, the partition between the car

Wriggling in Ronald's embrace, trying to get down,

So are you looking to date

twitched. Dating was the last thing on her

continued, "Or perhaps, you're taking your

just

I hadn't shown up, were you really planning

clearly detected a hint of danger in

"No."

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