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

he stepped away, answering with

his face grim. "Aren't you tired? Why aren't you sleeping?" "Sleeping! Right now! Sleeping!" Stella blurted, her words tumbling

But what about tomorrow?

bruises around her neck wouldn't fade for

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

approached, picked her

flat. "How many

told

sleep like that?

bad for your heart."

belongs

couldn't help but

my

flip

and

603

right?"

bring herself to

pulled the blanket over her, and just as he was about to stand,

unsettled, raced even

heavy with implication. "With this many,

speechless. Was there really a need to agitate

did that

got the feeling

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

haste, her nails scratched across his chest, leaving marks