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."

phrase-business is business—sent a jolt through Xander. It was like Ronald could see right through him, see every half-baked thought

didn't press. He just nodded to Idris to

at nothing, the last inch of his

business, huh?" Can

Yvonne still wasn't over Dan? What if all this time, she'd been holding onto

another man since Dan's "death." She'd built a wall around herself, and no one had ever gotten close. Everything pointed to

she'd beaten Dan

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

his eyes, rubbing the headache that was threatening to split his

His phone buzzed-Kyle.

"Talk."

Xander's

PaddleLux? The hotel?

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

sighed, pinching the bridge of his

"No clue, sir."

asked, his

She went out with a full security detail earlier, but now...

didn't like that. Not

in his car, hung up on Kyle, and sped

barely made it

drive