The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 1191

But right now, that damp chill was making her deeply uncomfortable.

After a while, the innkeeper-a woman who'd been loudly arguing on the phone- finally hung up.

With a toothpick clamped between her teeth, she looked Stella and Joshua up

and down, sizing them up.

"Looking for a room?"

Stella nodded. "We'd like two rooms, please."

The woman's tone was frosty. "That'll be two hundred for both."

"Alright."

"Passports, please. I need to check you in."

Stella's voice was soft. "We... accidentally lost our passports. Is there any way you could make an exception?"

The woman's eyelids flicked up. She glanced at them again, as if something had occurred to her, then let out a short, derisive laugh.

"Rooms are four hundred apiece now. Four hundred deposit as well. Eight hundred total."

Stella didn't bother to argue about the sudden price hike. She just nodded.

"That's fine."


the money, they followed the innkeeper up the stairs as

room and flicked on the lights. "This is your

square feet. Still,

Stella, though, frowned.

for

woman's voice was flat. "This

empty rooms. Their doors

them out, those rooms were

the

but the innkeeper didn't let

can't even produce a single I'm already taking

passport.

letting would have


a room

wouldn't have let

s

Pet

their looks and air, clearly weren't ordinary travelers. Maybe they were some runaway couple from a wealthy family, pretending to ask for separate rooms, only

s

prepping two rooms for

effort and, if anything, did them a

under these circumstances, having a roof over their heads was

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