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Chapter 448 She had nothing.

When she was just a child, her mother ran off with someone else, leaving because her father was poor. She was left to live with her father, and they depended on each other for everything. Eventually, the only person who ever loved her and protected her, her father, was gone too.

Stella placed her hand over Tegan's cold one. "Don't say that. You've got Uriah."

Everyone saw how Uriah treated her. With him around, nobody dared mess with Tegan.

Tegan just nodded, not saying a word. Stella knew Mrs. Horner was always up to something, causing trouble, and that was probably why Tegan was feeling so down.

She was about to say something comforting, but Susanna's call interrupted.

Stella answered, "Susie."

"Star, when are you coming back? Oh my God..."

Just after saying one sentence, Susanna burst into tears on the other end of the line.

Stella's brow twitched. "What's wrong?"

steady, Susanna said, "I can't keep being around this man, it's going to kill me. I almost

so hard she

did Hull

Almost died?

the underworld, run-ins with

might frequently find herself in those

instead, I almost got killed! Star, come back soon. I'm really afraid I won't get

couldn't help it. She was on

like Hull, and now that she had, she was genuinely scared.

on the couch, a

brought some documents from the study. As he handed the file

when

a nearby

was just a quick file retrieval task,

at Barnaby, his

Barnaby, oblivious to the tension, added, "She doesn't trust

and

chill emanating from Hull. They hurriedly shot Barnaby warning looks but he seemed heedless like