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."

lingered on her for a moment before he finally relented, turning to pick it up. It was

stepped away, answering with

Why aren't you sleeping?" "Sleeping! Right now! Sleeping!" Stella blurted, her

But what about tomorrow?

neck wouldn't fade for a

her bundled under the small blanket, Ronald, who had a frosty expression, now

approached, picked her up,

her flat. "How many

told

to sleep like that?

bad for your heart."

belongs

couldn't help but think,"

now my head in

flip

leave, and I'll

603

right?"

bring herself to voice

was about to stand, his fingers brushed against the bruises on her

heart, already unsettled,

with implication. "With this many, these won't

there really a need to agitate

what did that

the feeling that

fully stand, Stella, in a panic, grabbed the lapel of his

chest, leaving marks that mirrored