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.

didn't you once promise me a chance to get even? Well, I'm cashing in that promise now. The only

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

I'd be a murderer, wouldn't I? Don't worry-no matter how much I hate you, I won't kill you. Murder comes with a

but suddenly the office door flew

in, taking in the

"Star, are you alright?!"

moment. "Foreman, restrain Stella-she's

He'd arrived over forty minutes earlier than he and Stella had agreed. Clearly, she'd

ready to intervene, but Haynes spoke

and Stella.

locked warily on Haynes, as if expecting

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

go

made no

quietly, relief passing over his

...

was rushed to the hospital in

hadn't been signed

now Jasper had

an accusing finger at Stella, his voice shaking with rage. "You're always preaching the law to me, Stella! I've already called the cops. You're going to jail for this, you

too, had snapped out of her panic. The