Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

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?"

Yoder, a renowned cardiologist from Ferrowland. Especially in surgery,

mischievous grin, "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

Stella's brows twitching violently, "What

Ronald said, "No talking."

watching Ronald scrolling through her contacts, messages, Twitter, and

was

back, "What are you doing? I've been out of

then, dating was off-limits in school, but she wasn't in school

looked at her, let out a low chuckle, and with a scoop, pulled her onto his

"Hey, Finley's still

said that, the partition between the

trying to get

So are

Stella's lips twitched. Dating

silent, Ronald continued, "Or perhaps, you're taking your engagement

just days away,

shown up, were you really planning to

clearly detected a hint of

"No."