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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have thought she couldn’t hold her liquor at all–just two glasses and she was

tearing the place apart looking for you. They must’ve found out we’ve settled on a partner

them panic.

trying to figure

“Guess his men are

had taken them far longer

Their people

glanced down at Stella and gently adjusted the

to me yet–he probably still doesn’t

will soon, Abraham

contacted Abel, Abel would relay Abraham’s message

entire Keene family

Calm Before

his call with Louis when another one came

what on earth is going on? Are

Ethan frowned. “What happened?”

Lillian’s hospital room. What does

already

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both families were treating

anger. “Ethan, she can’t take that kind of stress right now. Please tell your father to pull

from sheer anger after seeing

be

she’d been thinking about was moving into Seatlats Cove’s Verdant Villa, But

1 from Judson.

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