Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

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Chapter 38

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Stephanie had planned to take Sebastian to the hotel, but instead, he had her pinned against his side. She couldn’t figure out how to tell Elliot where to drive.

By the time Sebastian finally let go of her, they were already pulling into the parking garage at Cloudridge Valley.

She was caught off guard. “You know 1 live here?” she asked, glancing at him.

She’d used his card yesterday, which must’ve given away her details, and now here he was.

Stephanie figured he’d probably done some digging into her life over the last three years.

Elliot, still behind the wheel, spoke up. “It’s easy for him to find out anything. It’s just that you’ve kept it so well hidden all this time. We never knew you’d move to another country.”

Stephanie’s nerves flared, and she didn’t know how to respond.

Elliot added, “You even found your real family… Well… anyway, he’s really pissed!”

The last part, “really pissed,” made her stomach drop.

She quickly glanced at Sebastian, who was already standing outside the car. Without wasting a second, she jumped out.

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The elevator ride was silent, tension thick in the air. They headed straight for her place.

As she was about to grab slippers for Sebastian, she opened the shoe cabinet. There, among her own slippers, was a pair of men’s slippers that clearly had been worn.

A cold shiver ran down her spine. She hurriedly grabbed a brand–new pair she hadn’t worn yet, offering them to Sebastian.

“Why don’t you wear these for now?” she said, holding out a pair of pink slippers with little rabbit designs.

his cold energy

others?” he teased, his voice dark.

froze,

straight and gave him a pitiful look.

softly, slipping the slippers on. They were too

the apartment and looked around,

family is pretty well–known in Long Harbor. This is where they’ve put you?“–

made Stephanie tense

Hart family,”

stared at

admitted, “I bought it with your money.”

twitched. Things were

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“with your money, something in his key

towed his cost over

the room. Then he asked, “Why didn’t you buy something

square feet, Enough for me she

him, it was tiny. Back in Fiorenza, even her smallest house had

family, their manor was so big she couldn’t finish walking around it in an

his eyes

sharp edge to

meter away from him, careful not to

her into his embrace, just like he had in the car.

she gasped, her voice

low, almost a growl, as he spoke from above her

flashing in her eyes. Her heart

minutes. She knew exactly what that

she had walked out without a word, right in the

saying circulating in Fiorenza’s high society: An adopted daughter’s never truly of

was Stephanie they were talking about.

had it that when everything fell apart for Mr. Giovanni, and Sebastian

the question back on him. “The Casalini family, how

past three years, she had kept a close watch on everything happening

family had once held her

for the last year, there hadn’t been