Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath

Chapter 773

After Yvonne's phone call, Stella felt like someone had pulled the plug on her. She just couldn't believe things had turned out this way. In her mind, Yvonne had always been rock solid-someone you could count on no matter what.

But now? Everything was falling apart.

Ronald, who'd hung up right after Yvonne, was right there beside her, trying to calm her down.

"Hey, don't overthink it. It's not as bad as it seems," he said, pulling her gently onto his lap. Stella looked up at him, her eyes wide and worried, but she couldn't find the words to say anything.

"Star," Ronald murmured.

She finally whispered, "I just wanted to help Susie."

Now Susie's whole world had been flipped upside down. It was like dropping her into a pack of wolves. If Susie didn't have some survival skills, she'd never make it back to Black Gate. And with Lacey's enemies piling up, half of Black Gate was out for blood-Derek, Dan, the whole lot.

With Susie's mom tangled up in all of this, there was no way Susie could keep her head down and stay out of trouble. Stella had just wanted to teach her how to protect herself. How could things go so wrong?

hand, his voice steady and sure. "Do you really think Dan would dare hurt her

at him,

own. Ronald wasn't there, so she'd learned to make decisions and keep her cool, no matter what. But nobody else had ever managed to make her feel so messy and out of sorts-except

pinched her nose playfully when she didn't answer. "Lacey didn't go back to Black Gate on her own. Dan's people dragged her back-kicking and

Yeah. Dragged her back.

Black Gate ever again. She'd made that

to us

everything-his money, his power, his legacy-for her kid. He never made a move against Dan because Finch wasn't ready-he wasn't strong enough yet? And with

in the day-taking all the hits

finally settling down, and Derek wanted to snatch all the power back from Dan, hand it over to Finch. After all the work

Not a chance.

Dan hauled Lacey

These Black Gate family ties