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.

chance to get even? Well, I'm cashing in

lips curled into a faint, bitter smile. His voice was hoarse. "Stella, if you hate me so much, why not go

emotionless smile. "If I did that, I'd be a murderer, wouldn't I? Don't worry-no matter how much I

was the commotion, but suddenly the

in, taking in the scene

"Star, are you alright?!"

seized the moment. "Foreman, restrain Stella-she's lost it! She stabbed

his own slip. He'd arrived over forty minutes earlier than he and Stella had

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

and Stella. Stay

hesitated, his gaze locked warily on Haynes,

Haynes off guard. If she

let go of

made no move for

exhaled quietly, relief

...

the hospital in short

hadn't

Jasper

preaching the law to me, Stella! I've already called the cops. You're going to jail

snapped out of her panic. The