Love at the Next Stop

Chapter 83 Separated by Mountains

The property agent said that the buyer was keen on the international school nearby the villa, which was why he bought it.

That reminded Stella that there was such an international school near the villa, but the school fees were rather expensive. Hence, regular people wouldn’t consider this villa because it wasn’t exactly a property in a schooling area. With no children of her own, Stella didn’t pay any attention to such matters.

The one who showed up for the purchase procedure was coming on behalf of the buyer. In other words, it was another agent, so Stella never saw how the buyer looked like even until she received the payment.

If a million was a big amount, then more so for twelve million. Feeling jittery, Stella went to look for Miles in a hurry to return him the money. Instead of meeting him at his company for fear that it would be awkward when she met her ex-colleagues, she asked him out in a coffee shop outside.

Carefully, she calculated all the money she and Zane owed to him and wrote down the exact figure on the check.

With a cup of coffee in her hand, she waited patiently for Miles to show up. Previously when she asked him out, she hadn’t told him the reason why she wanted to meet him.

After Miles arrived, she hurriedly pushed the check to him as though she was afraid that it would fly away from her hands. “President Grant, I’ve sold the villa and included the money which Zane and I owed you.”

Lowering his head, Miles took a glance at the check worth more than six million which Stella had carefully written, afraid that she might write the number incorrectly.

While he was looking at the check, Stella hung her head and let out a long sigh of relief; the feeling of being debt-free made her feel as though a heavy burden had been lifted off her. Even the sun seemed especially warm, and she felt incredibly light-hearted.

This is simply amazing! she thought.

When he lifted his gaze, he saw her hanging her head. “Why are you sighing?”

Not expecting that he would hear it, she replied with a giggle, “Of course I’m happy because I’ve paid off all my debts. I can leave with no attachments this time.”

“No attachments?” he repeated, saying each word clearly.

“Yeah,” she answered rather happily.

“How did you know Gabriella?” Miles asked out of the blue, clearly uninterested to continue with the topic and popped up with a question which had boggled him this whole time.

“It’s your—” Before she could even start her sentence, her cell phone rang in a hurried tone. Feeling rather odd, she excused herself, “I’m sorry. I’m taking a call.”

It was her shop employee, Emma, who called saying that a drunkard had broken the glass door of the shop with a stone in the middle of the night. As the glass door was made from plexiglass, a rather expensive material, Emma didn’t know how to deal with the situation and had called to tell her about it.

that she was speechless. Although her shop had been open for a few months, she had never encountered such a situation, and Zane was usually the one who dealt with such situations in Hollowcrest. Thus, she didn’t

herself; this wasn’t a problem that could wait for her return. What if someone steals the clothes when the door is broken? she thought anxiously.

was stolen,” she replied. “That guy was so drunk that he passed out, and I saw what happened from the CCTV footage this morning. He was full of brute force and passed out exactly in front of the hole after breaking

and wondered, How should I get the door

he saw that she seemed anxious

a sudden, Stella remembered that he was her landlord and

he said and extended

are you going to do?” Feeling a little hesitant, she was worried that she wouldn’t be able to handle the consequences of his ideas.

of it,”

still hesitating, he had grabbed her phone and told Emma to leave one person in the shop today to take care of it

paid, and they always work so slowly. If they

was worried that if the door couldn’t be

deep voice. “I’ll give the management

the new glass door and change it today.

waited for the reply anxiously. After he hung up the call, she

“Yeah.”

thought as she patted her chest. If anything has been stolen,

returning to Murdough?” Miles

better,” she replied

out of the coffee shop

torn into pieces in that second. After staying a night at Miles’

ending. Since they already slept together, then they must have sorted things out as well. Even though Gabriella disappeared the first time and made Miles really upset, she probably wouldn’t do the same the second time; Miles usually kept a tight

was what Matthew told her, and if that was the case, then Stella had nothing to

cafe, she was welcomed by the good summer weather which carried with it a humid air, and she

my heart as cold and

mountains tomorrow. How uncertain was life? Perhaps,

Hollowcrest and Murdough was actually not that far, and it would only take an hour of flight to travel between the two cities. If they didn’t keep in contact, it would

separate both of them

flight for the evening, Stella returned to Murdough. On the plane, however, she suddenly remembered she hadn’t told Miles how she knew Gabriella. Thinking to send him a text to

Murdough, and she was surprised that the management had already fixed the door a long time ago. There were no signs that it was

for her at the door, asking that she had

she thought. Why do