Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 409

Over in Mist Bay, Stella was chatting away with Susanna when suddenly the line went dead. She tried calling back, but there was no answer. Twice more she tried, and twice more she got nothing.

Ronald stepped up, smoothly taking the phone from her hand and popping a pill into her mouth. "This is your pre-meal medication."

"Ugh!"

It was bitter. Seriously, where did Ronald find these doctors who prescribed the most god-awful tasting pills?

Stella's face scrunched up in protest.

Ronald handed her a glass of water, and she hurried to swallow the pill. No sooner had she done so than he pressed a piece of candy into her mouth. The sweet burst of orange filled her senses, offering some relief.

"Better?"

"Yeah, sweet."

Ronald tousled her hair. "Spreading rumors about Hull, huh? You've got guts."

Stella's cheeks flushed. "We were just speculating."

Yvonne had mentioned it before, and Stella couldn't help but think it was a bit odd - why did Hull always look at them and never make a move?

"You and who?"

"Yvonne."

Ronald was left speechless.

If Hull caught wind of this, she and

a coat and helped her to wear it; he remarked,

fair! Finley would say things to your face and behind your back. She only gossiped behind

from snow, but a fierce

with a respectful

a kilometer from the

their presence is going to upset you, maybe

slightly. "Who is

"It's Mrs. Larkin."

of course.

out of commission due to his injury. And if

Cloudia, Stella's

intention of meeting. Cloudia was only here for

giving a subtle nod that said more

he meant just from

leaving the butler

gate, Cloudia, who got stopped, was a

have no right to stop me! I'm just here to see my daughter. Doesn't a mother have

an immovable barrier between her and the

demand didn't reciprocate.