Chapter 632

Yorick: "..."

He sucked in a breath, sharp and heavy.

Right now, Yorick was standing in his townhouse in Ferrowland. The whole way here, he'd been meaning to reach out to Stella. But now that he was actually here? Nerves had him by the throat.

He'd seen all the headlines about her wedding in Ferrowland-not from Ronald, but through Lottie.

Lottie, the woman who raised Stella. Honestly, calling her "Mom" wouldn't have been a stretch.

The way things played out between them? No one back in Portis City would've accepted it, not in a million years.

But Lottie... she'd posted it everywhere: "The daughter-in-law I raised is finally all grown up."

Not daughter-daughter-in-law.

Apparently, the Lugar family had always treated Stella as their own future daughter-in-law. Yorick never could've guessed she held that kind of place with

them.

had thought that relationship-growing up side by side-was a line they'd never cross, not without consequences. He'd figured Ferrowland would eat her

too high to climb. If the Lugar family ever cast her out,

But he'd been wrong.

impossible were falling into place

my wedding?"—stabbed

It actually hurt

really going to marry Ronald?" Yorick

kind of hollow ache before-not even when Ursula had left Portis

realize he remembered

a short, sardonic laugh. "You think I'd joke about this? Didn't you see all the

wedding with Ronald. The plans had

through the mud, Stella? Aside from the Lugar family and the Quinn family, no one's

Stella went quiet.

and Ronald-people don't accept this, not anywhere. Doesn't matter if the big families are

you care, Yorick?" The words knocked the wind out of him all

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