Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 656

Living Room.

Only Silas and Susanna were left. Susanna broke the silence first. "I swear, I didn't mean to. I just..."

She trailed off, thinking of the things Barnaby had said earlier.

Truth was, everyone around Hull already looked at her with suspicion. And now,

after what had just happened, things couldn't be worse.

"How's his wound?" she asked instead, her voice soft.

There was nothing she could say to explain herself anymore. Even if she tried, no

one in Hull's circle would believe her.

Silas shrugged, rubbing his forehead. "Completely reopened. All of it."

Susanna's eyes went wide. "It's that bad?"

He shot her a look. "You did kind of slam your whole weight right on top of him. That's, what, over a hundred and thirty pounds, right?"

me!" Susanna squawked, indignant. "I weigh,

just raised

Why was she even arguing about this? Was her weight really the

few pounds since coming to Hull's place? She'd been eating

"Want me to grab a scale real

"No, no, that's really not necessary. So... he's

eggshells. Deep down, she really was scared she might've actually

more than she could ever

The doctor was really clear-he

Yeah. Of course," Susanna nodded

almost wickedly. "So,

I can't—” She started to

flashed back to all the warnings Stella had given her about not causing trouble. But every time she was around Hull, chaos seemed to follow. There was no way she could be

mouth whenever Hull was around, they seemed to have minds of

him. Don't you think

Susanna gaped. "What?!"

"Responsibility, Susanna."

of bricks. She glanced at Silas, mouth half-open, desperate to say no. But Silas was too good

it wasn't for you,

couldn't argue with that. It really was her mess

Finally, Silas left.