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?”

dragging my boyfriend into this? Who do

free,

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

and instantly loosened his grip on Stephanie’s

pockets, eyes ice–cold as

Chris looked up, face

pain.

It came from both

felt like his guts were

you…” Chris glared at her, gasping for air.

and turned to Sebastian. “What

skills get

his coat and wrapped it

and she dressed

mixed with a faint warmth that

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darker at the comment

kind of woman fights like this?

fought like she was raised in a war

pouted. “I handled it fine. You just showed up

hand, casting one last icy glance at Chris, who was

was breathing hard, sweat pouring down his forehead from the pain,

react, Sebastian let go of her and strode toward Chris, every

instinctively stepped back but couldn’t move