Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

Chapter 178

Stephanie couldn’t be bothered to deal with him and turned to leave.

But Chris grabbed her wrist again, his head still throbbing from her earlier smack. She didn’t hold back at all–his brain felt like it was rattling around in his skull.

Stephanie glanced at him, raising a brow. “Seriously?”

Right then, Chris’s eyes caught the redness and swelling on her lip…

And the faint glimpse of bruises along the edge of her scarf.

His mind went blank for a second before exploding.

Without thinking, he yanked off her scarf, and there they were–several hickeys, right there for him to see.

His breathing turned ragged. “You and those guys–”

He couldn’t even finish the sentence. He didn’t need to. As a grown man, he knew exactly what those marks meant.

No one knew how badly these past few days had eaten at him. Every time he pictured her with someone else, it felt like he was losing his mind.

He kept telling himself she was just acting out, trying to piss him off.

But now? There was no talking himself out of this.

Stephanie gave him a look like he was a total idiot. “What the hell’s wrong with you?”

about Olivia, and now you’re dragging my boyfriend into

her wrist free, but Chris held on

Stephanie lifted her leg and kicked him hard in the stomach–right as a loud

and instantly loosened his grip on Stephanie’s wrist.

stood there, hands in his pockets, eyes ice–cold as they locked

his stomach, Chris looked up,

pain.

came from

felt like his guts were

you…” Chris glared at her, gasping for

him and turned to Sebastian. “What are you doing

your fighting skills

coat and wrapped

freezing, and she

clinging to his coat mixed with a

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face turned even darker at the

woman fights like

fought like she was raised in a

“I handled it fine.

icy glance at Chris, who was still doubled

was breathing hard, sweat pouring down his forehead from the pain, glaring at Stephanie. “You owe me a damn

of her and strode toward Chris,

stepped back but couldn’t move