Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 699

Back then, when Dan passed away, Yvonne had completely lost it. She'd gone off the deep end-no doubt about it.

She switched therapists more times than most people switch their socks, and it was only with time that she finally started piecing herself back together.

So when she heard Dan was alive in Sands City, she dropped everything-her job, her friends, her whole life-just to find him.

But Dan? He had a fiancée now.

Aira. That woman from the Murray family, with all their tangled connections.

Ronald gave Xander a long, searching look. "What's got you asking about this all of a sudden?"

Xander shrugged, his expression cool. "Just curious."

The way he tossed those two words out-like the whole thing was barely worth his breath-was almost convincing. Almost. But who drives across town just to ask if Yvonne still has feelings for Dan, if they're just bored?

If Ronald was anything, it was sharp. He wasn't buying it for a second.

He chuckled, low and knowing. "You know, sometimes a man's gotta act like a man."

Xander's jaw clenched. "What's that supposed to mean?"

Ronald's eyes were unreadable, dark as midnight. He didn't answer right away, just leaned in a little. "At the end of the day, you gotta keep things straight. Business is business."

It was like Ronald could see right through

press. He just nodded to

inch of his cigarette burning

huh?" Can it really

over Dan? What if

never dated, never even looked at another man since Dan's "death." She'd built a wall around herself, and no one had ever gotten close. Everything pointed to one thing:

today today she'd beaten Dan

loving someone that much, to... this? Did that kind of love just disappear overnight? Or was

his eyes, rubbing the headache that

His phone buzzed-Kyle.

"Talk."

off guard by the coldness in Xander's voice. "Mr. Schultz, Ms. Quinn is at the Paddle

PaddleLux? The hotel?

got there. Made sense. After the chaos today-Dan and Aira both getting a beatdown-Yvonne wouldn't just go home and

the bridge of his nose. "What's she

"No clue, sir."

alone?" Xander asked, his voice

out with a full security detail earlier, but now... she's by

that. Not one

his car, hung up on Kyle, and sped straight

it

main drive when