Revenge of the Hideous Lady by Moonlight

Through the smoke in the air, Stanley slowly turned around and examined Xyla’s face with a deep look in his eyes.

“You don’t have to return anything to me for now,” he said calmly after exhaling a puff of smoke.

“Let me thank you by buying you a meal tonight,” said Xyla.

“Sure.”

“I’ll decide on the place and send you the location on WhatsApp,” said Xyla with a forced smile.

“Okay,” he replied with a gentle look on his face.

“Is there any particular restaurant you’d like to go to?”

“Anything is fine. Wherever you like.”

resist peeking at Stanley through the rearview mirror. Stanley’s gentle demeanor

had he never known about

driver had never heard Stanley saying the words ‘anything is fine’ in front

seemed weak. You only recovered

woke up, I realized my body was weak and I couldn’t even speak. I only recovered slowly after you walked through the door,”

her, the angrier she became. If Stanley had not fired at Tom and asked his men to beat him up, Xyla would have called the police. She wanted Tom to spend some time in prison. But now that Stanley had already taught Tom a lesson, the Sullivan family would make a huge fuss if she called the police. They would

whatever Xyla and Stanley had done today was

Xyla was happy to call it a draw. If she had chosen to be irrational, she would have asked Stanley to continue beating Tom

If he was not sent to the hospital soon, he might end up

he stopped talking and his face

***

the door for Xyla. Barely wearing anything, she immediately sneezed when a gust of cold wind blew

while her heart began to pound. “I’m capable