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."


money, they followed the innkeeper up the stairs as she

a room

was a cramped double room, barely three hundred square feet. Still, the essentials were all

Stella, though, frowned.

for two

"This is the last

empty rooms. Their doors were

to air them out, those

reserved," the woman

started to protest, but the innkeeper didn't let

a single I'm

passport.

letting would have


a room at all.

have let

s

Pet

of guest. These two, with their looks and air, clearly weren't ordinary travelers. Maybe they were some runaway couple from a

s

prepping two rooms for nothing.

saved her effort and, if

circumstances, having a roof over their heads was already a

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