The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 449

The air in the room froze in an instant.

Rachel was the first to crack. She let out a piercing scream.

"Ah! He's been stabbed!"

Jasper jolted back to reality, his nerves shot. Instinctively, he moved toward Haynes to check on him.

But Rachel clung to his arm in terror. "Jasper, I'm scared..."

Stella, standing there with the bloody knife, looked utterly terrifying-like a cold- blooded killer.

Seeing this, Jasper stopped dead in his tracks. For a second, he genuinely feared Stella might snap and turn on Rachel next.

Haynes had been caught off guard; that's the only reason she'd gotten the better of him. If he'd been ready, Stella would never have stood a chance.

Haynes stared at the knife buried in his abdomen, his pupils contracting in shock. Disbelief and hurt flickered across his face. "...Why? Stella, do you really want me dead?"

Stella's long lashes trembled like the wings of a moth. Her face was almost ghostly-pale and bloodless. The hand gripping the knife shook ever so slightly; after all, this was the first time she'd ever done something like this.

Yet her eyes were steady, not a trace of fear in them.

once promise me a chance to get even? Well, I'm cashing in that promise now.

a faint, bitter smile. His voice was hoarse. "Stella, if you hate me so much, why

a murderer, wouldn't I? Don't worry-no matter how much I hate you,

the commotion, but

taking in the

"Star, are you alright?!"

the moment. "Foreman, restrain

arrived over forty minutes earlier than he and Stella had agreed. Clearly,

to intervene, but Haynes spoke up, his voice weak but

is between me and Stella. Stay

gaze locked warily on Haynes, as if expecting him to do something

full well that she'd only succeeded because she'd caught Haynes off guard. If she tried for a

slowly let go of

no move for

quietly, relief passing

...

was rushed to the hospital in

hadn't

Jasper had

rage. "You're always preaching the law to

her panic. The look