Love at the Next Stop

Chapter 38 Are You Addicted to This?

Kevin and Stella were standing on the wooden steps at the back door. Although the ringing of the phone wasn’t that loud, it was audible from outside. When Stella turned to check on it, Kevin fished out a bunch of keys from his pocket. “Open the door and go pick up the call.”

Frowning, she asked, “Why do you have the house keys?”

“This is President Grant’s house. He gave them to me.”

Stella’s eyes went wide in astonishment. Ah, I’m such a fool for not realizing sooner. She never saw Kevin in such a good mood while working on any of his past projects. Besides, the lavish mansion had made it apparent that the owner was a wealthy person, and there weren’t a lot of people with as much wealth in all of Hollowcrest City.

In the meantime, Kevin picked out the key for the glass door from the bunch of keys. “Here you go. He has so many doors in the house, so there are a lot of keys, too.”

With that, Stella jogged into the house after agreeing to his request. A woman’s voice came through when she picked up the call. “Miles?”

Startled, Stella answered, “Um, I’m not President Grant. Who might you be?”

“I’m his girlfriend. Who are you?” A lively voice came through with a pointed question.

All at once, Stella was baffled. Who is she? She deemed herself as someone who was easily moved. From the looks of it, Miles latched himself to her because of her status as a married woman. It was safer to have an affair with a married woman, as a married woman wouldn’t need him to provide for her financially, nor would she want to marry him. The realization stunned Stella for a few moments.

“Hello—” The woman on the other end of the line pressed for a reply.

“Oh, I’m a staff member in charge of designing the yard in his house. He isn’t in at the moment,” Stella replied.

“He’s not in the house? How disappointing! He didn’t pick up either when I called his cell phone!” The women cried coquettishly, sounding like a happy-go-lucky woman who was both stubborn yet naive.

After that, Stella placed the handset down slowly, her heart swelling up with negative emotions. She had to pass by a room when she went back out through the back door. Since the door was open, she couldn’t help but take a peek into it, only to see that it was a bedroom. People who lived in mansions would normally have their bedrooms on the upper floors, so she didn’t expect Miles to have a bedroom on the ground floor.

spanned roughly 220 centimeters in length, while Stella’s own bed was only 180. The 40 centimeter difference was easy to spot, which made his bed look a few sizes larger

that Miles had walked up to her before turning to check on the direction that she was looking at. Since Kevin had taken his keys, he had no keys to

that Miles was gazing

which she noticed was something that happened quite frequently. “Addicted

someone else’s bed, of

The call from that other woman was also distracting her from her job. After taking the measurements of the yard and drawing some sketches, Kevin went to Miles’ room to play chess with him. Although Stella was planning to leave alone, she couldn’t possibly leave Miles’ mansion on foot. Therefore, she could only wait when Kevin

was better than her in all

she was engrossed in her own thoughts, Miles asked,

Stella snapped back

“What about poker?”

“Nope.”

“UNO?”

“Nope.”

answer a call. He seemed to have been at it for quite some time, which was why an impatient Miles tried to get

did back then?”

back, being the only one aware of the underlying meaning in her

just got a call from that woman. After some time, Kevin told Miles when he was finally back, “I’m sorry, President Grant. That forty-minute call was my wife doing a spot check since she knew I won’t be in the office

husband might cheat on them. I was thinking of having Miss Johansson take your place if you

Why the

you’ll also soon be faced with such a predicament.

“Yeah.”

on the sofa, Stella bit on her bottom lip so hard that she nearly drew blood. She wanted to suppress all of her fantasies, burying them deep down within

He informed her, “Only a few people in the company know that the president has a girlfriend. He figured that Miss North wouldn’t be harassed

help but let out a chuckle. Seeing how considerate Miles was toward Yvonne, she was almost tempted to meet her. Judging from how he doted on Yvonne, Stella wondered what kind of woman she was. Unlike herself, Zane already knew of her affair