Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

hapter 45

Chapter 45

When Chris walked out of Cloudridge Valley, his head was buzzing, his mind in turmoil.

Kevin had been waiting downstairs. The moment he saw Chris‘ dark, stormy expression, and the bruises on his face, he couldn’t help but gasp.

“So, Miss Giovanni still refused, huh?” he asked.

Refusing to marry was one thing, but hitting someone? Kevin shuddered, thinking about Stephanie’s fiery temper.

Chris shot him a sharp, icy glance. Kevin instantly knew–another failure.

With a sigh, Kevin muttered, “You can’t just force these things. Women need to be coaxed.”

“Coaxed?” Chris sneered. The word dripped with sarcasm.

Kevin fell silent. Honestly, with Stephanie’s stubbornness, no amount of coaxing would work. People saw her as fiery–small in ability, big in attitude.

“Kevin,” Chris didn’t continue the topic. His eyes narrowed dangerously and spoke up. “Find out who that man she’s been spending time with is.”

Kevin blinked. “What? Another man?”

He stared at Chris in disbelief. “Miss Giovanni with another man? Impossible! She is always by herself. Even if someone is with her, it’s Miss Turner.”

In Kevin’s eyes, Stephanie was someone who wouldn’t even bother leaving the house.

She was definitely a couch potato, living off others, too proud to step outside. How could she possibly have another man around?

If it were

for the Hart family, she probably wouldn’t even have Chris, the only man around her.

Kevin’s disbelief, Chris‘ gaze grew colder and chimed in, “I ran

“You… ran into

and that face, which felt strangely familiar but he couldn’t

there was the gun… That guy was just insane.

underworld

determined to find out who this person was–someone like that even existed in Long Harbor. Whoever

he thought to himself. ‘With Miss Giovanni’s temper, how could she mix with someone

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had completely shattered

especially with Sebastian

his lap now, feeling the tension rise in

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love holding her close, as if in his mind, she was still the little girl he used to spoil. But she wasn’t a little

that gentle affection. Instead, his every move

you just ask whatever it is you

it all on Chris. She’d already explained everything, and now this idiot

an eyebrow. “You were protecting him just

head. “No, I just didn’t want my home, the place I’ve lived for two years,

the deadly seriousness in his presence. He was someone who could kill without a second thought.

back when he shot without hesitation during the kidnapping incident of her years ago. That

she was certain he would’ve done the same thing.

Long Harbor,” she said

giving me a lecture,

just saying, the reason I even agreed to marry Chris… Just, don’t go hurt

thing, but murder was something else. She could never stomach the idea