Love at the Next Stop

Chapter 38

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.

spot, which made his bed look a few sizes larger than hers. Judging

observing the room with her head tilted to the side. However, she didn’t notice 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 open the

while before Stella noticed that Miles was gazing at her. “Are you addicted

was something that happened quite

else’s bed, of course,”

back to doing measurements with Kevin. She wasn’t sure why Miles was back, as it was an odd time to come back home. 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

on the sofa beside them. Seeing that Yulia was better than her in all aspects other than her looks, she figured that the only reason Miles turned Yulia down was because he didn’t want to be responsible for another

own thoughts, Miles

Stella snapped back to

“What about poker?”

“Nope.”

“UNO?”

“Nope.”

scanned her surroundings, only to see that Kevin had already left the room to answer a call. He seemed to have been at

you were such a model student. Was studying all you did back then?” Miles held between his fingers a black chess piece while wondering where to

from a player like you,” Stella bit back, being the only one aware of the underlying meaning

at her sharp words, oblivious to the fact that she 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

was thinking of having Miss Johansson take your place if you took any longer.” Miles moved

Johansson? Why the sudden honorific?

such a predicament. Will Miss North be back

“Yeah.”

suppress all of her fantasies, burying them deep down within her in order to pretend

He told her that Miles’ girlfriend was Yvonne North. She was a surgeon in Hollowcrest City Medical School who was sent to America for a three month training program. 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 if

he doted on Yvonne, Stella wondered what kind of woman she was. Unlike herself, Zane already knew of her affair with Miles,

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