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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.

eyes narrowed slightly, his cold energy ensifying.

others?”

was taken aback. She froze, bitterness suddenly filling

and gave him a pitiful look. “You already know?”

softly, slipping the slippers on. They were too small for

and looked around, his gaze growing darker

back to her. “The Hart family is pretty

the Hart family made Stephanie tense up. She pouted, avoiding

from the Hart family,” she

and stared at her.

shrugged, then admitted, “I bought it

expression twitched. Things were worse

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something in his key demeanor seemed to soften–post

towed his cost over the back.

the room. Then

enough it’s 1,500 square feet, Enough for me

it was tiny. Back in Fiorenza,

manor was so big she couldn’t finish walking around it in an hour.

eyes

sharp edge to it.

hesitated, but she stepped forward, stopping about a meter

pulled her

her voice

growl, as he spoke from above her head. “You’ve got five minutes.

flashing in her eyes. Her heart skipped a beat.

She knew exactly

she had walked out without a word, right in the middle of the chaos within the

physically left, there was a saying circulating in Fiorenza’s

they were talking

Giovanni, and Sebastian was at his lowest, she had

Stephanie turned the question back on him. “The Casalini family,

the past three years, she had kept a close

had once held her fate

last year, there hadn’t been a

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