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.”

through the rearview mirror. Stanley’s gentle demeanor was giving him

never known

the words ‘anything is fine’ in front of him or anyone else. This

I walked through the door earlier. Your body seemed weak. You only recovered after I held you in my arms. Why was that? Did he drug you?” asked

drug at me when I wasn’t paying attention. I immediately passed out when it happened. When I woke up, I realized my body was weak and I couldn’t even speak. I only recovered slowly

more she thought about what happened to 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

done today was enough. Besides,

Stanley had shot Tom in the wrist and even asked his subordinates to beat him up. Xyla was happy to call it a draw. If she had chosen to be irrational, she would have asked Stanley to continue

been torn from the gunshot. If he was not

Xyla said, he stopped talking and his

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Barely wearing anything, she immediately sneezed when a gust of cold wind blew into the

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