The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 161 The Calm Before the Collapse

Stella nodded softly. “Mm. I wanna go home“:

She felt sick from the wine.

Abraham grabbed the coat draped over the back of a chair and wrapped it around her. “Alright. Let’s go home.”

That word–home–stabbed right into Abraham’s heart.

He lifted her in his arms.

Smuggled against his chest, Stella mumbled, “You lied, Abraham. You said it’d be fun…”

“What does Stella want to do?”

“Something fun. Something yummy.”

But there’d been neither.

Her misty, dazed eyes looked up at him. Abraham chuckled, “Your heart’s not still.”

That made Stella even more aggrieved. She squirmed in his arms in protest.

Outside, the wind was strong and cold.

But wrapped up in Abraham’s coat, Stella didn’t feel even a trace of it.

Abraham carried her into the car.

Up front, Abel glanced in the rearview mirror. “Ms. Stella had too much to drink?”

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at the flushed face in his arms. Recalling Eddie’s earlier comments, his

thought she couldn’t hold her liquor at all–just

“The Keene family’s been tearing the place apart looking for you. They must’ve found out we’ve settled on a partner

a low laugh. “Good. Let them panic. The longer they stew, the more it’ll

still trying to figure

“Guess his men are more useless

taken them far longer than

so–called top family? Their people

down at Stella and gently adjusted

hesitated, then added, “Judson hasn’t reached out to me yet–he probably still doesn’t know you’re the one behind

will soon, Abraham

contacted Abel, Abel would

that happened, the entire Keene family would

Calm Before the

his call with Louis when

on? Are you really planning to let

Ethan frowned. “What happened?”

to guard Lillian’s

already near

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and seeing how both families were treating her–her mental state was collapsing

take that kind of stress right now. Please tell your father to pull his ment back. What’s

fainted from sheer

supposed to be discharged in

moving into Seatlats Cove’s Verdant Villa, But instead of a warm welcome, she

1 from Judson.