The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 12 Smash him with a bat

Now, Patrick finally understood why Susan always ended up fuming.

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Just like she had said, Stella was a debt collector, completely unyielding, impossible to reason with. No matter what he said, nothing got through to her. Since the soft approach didn’t work, he had no choice but to go hard.

“Fine, then. Your bank card stays frozen. Take your time to think it over. When you come to your senses, we’ll talk.”

Throwing down those harsh words, Patrick turned and left.

The room fell silent. Stella slammed the door shut. Just as she stepped back into the living room, her phone vibrated.

It was Jason number….

Today, she had already blocked several people Ethan, Susan, and Patrick. Now, if they wanted to reach her, they could only use someone else’s phone. Predictably, she ignored the call.

On the other end of the line, Ethan had just left the Keene family home, using Jason’s phone to call Stella. Once again, she declined. When he called back, it went straight to a busy tone, he had been blocked.

Ethan’s face darkened with rage. “Where the hell did she pick up this habit of ignoring calls?”

Jason twitched his lips.

“I think Ms. Dawson isn’t just ignoring your calls right now.” From the looks of it, she had infuriated the entire Reed family today, not just Ethan.

Ethan felt a sharp headache coming on…

“Drive to Kingston Heights.”

gone too far. Jason

An hour later.

Stella was sound asleep. Ethan pressed the doorbell repeatedly, but she didn’t answer. Being turned away at this hour only made his already sour

“Call a locksmith.”

run out of

Jason hesitated. “.

as he reached for his phone, the door swung open from

her face drowsy with sleep, tinged with irritation. In her hand was a baseball bat. From

Ethan, her fury flared up. Without hesitation, she raised the bat and swung

he caught it mid–air. “You crazy

teeth clenched in

again? Was her temper always this extreme?All he had said was that the

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straight to her fridge, pulled it open, and frowned when he saw it was

“You don’t cook?”

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he was insane. Who wakes someone up in the middle of the night, checks

matter of factly,

had been running around all day, skipped lunch, got dragged through a mess at the Keene estate, and now he

starving.

grew

think I have food for

barely cooked for herself, let alone for him. Was he expecting her to whip up a meal just because he said he was hungry?Did this

this morning, we had fought like hell, and now he was here

his jaw in frustration. “You don’t