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

yank her wrist free, but Chris held

in the stomach–right as a loud thud echoed from the

out a muffled grunt and instantly loosened his grip on Stephanie’s wrist.

hands in his pockets, eyes ice–cold as they

Chris looked up, face

pain.

It came from both

felt like his guts were

at her, gasping for air.

ignored him and turned to Sebastian. “What are you doing

your fighting skills get

took off his coat and wrapped it

and she dressed like this?‘

scent clinging to his coat mixed with a faint warmth that Stephanie couldn’t help but lean

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face turned even darker at the

kind of woman fights like

she was raised

“I handled it fine.

casting one last icy glance at

hard, sweat pouring down his forehead from the pain, glaring at Stephanie. “You owe

her and strode

instinctively stepped back but couldn’t move fast enough-