Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 256

"I tripped."

That excuse was far from believable.

But given Stella's current state of mind, she was completely out of the mental bandwidth to concoct any other excuse.

Please don't ask anymore. If he kept pressing, she truly might crack and spill everything. Then what? Would they even be able to stay siblings? No, she couldn't bear the thought. She couldn't take that risk!

Ronald frowned. "Tripped? Star, do you really think that excuse holds any water?"

Stella froze.

He's still asking?

Oh, come on! Could someone just arrest her already?

"Star."

His voice, low and magnetic, drilled into her frayed nerves like a persistent drumbeat.

Stella couldn't take it anymore.

Fine, forget being siblings. Maybe it was time to throw caution to the wind and pursue him instead.

Stella steeled herself, heart pounding, ready to take the plunge.

But just as she opened her mouth to speak, Ronald's phone buzzed sharply, cutting through the tension and halting their conversation.

Stella, already stiff with tension, latched onto the ringing phone like it was a lifeline. "Your phone's ringing."

moment before he finally relented, turning to pick it up.

as he stepped away, answering with a

to race as she watched him retreat to the balcony. Her instinct screamed that this wasn't over. Barely a minute passed before Ronald returned, his face grim. "Aren't you tired? Why aren't you sleeping?" "Sleeping! Right now! Sleeping!" Stella blurted,

But what about tomorrow?

around her neck wouldn't fade for

the small blanket, Ronald, who had a frosty expression, now showed

picked

flat. "How many times

told

not to sleep like that?

bad for your heart."

belongs

help

now my head in

flip

leave, and

603

right?"

bring herself to

over her, and just as he was about

unsettled, raced

this many, these won't

left speechless. Was there really a need

what did

got the feeling that

a panic,

scratched across his chest, leaving marks that mirrored the ones already