The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 161

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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arms. Recalling Eddie’s earlier comments, his expression softened. “She’s grown

she couldn’t hold her liquor at all–just

looking for you. They must’ve found out we’ve

Let them panic. The longer they stew, the

still trying to figure out who owns

are more useless than I

them far longer

Their people weren’t impressive after

and gently adjusted the coat

out to me yet–he

will soon,

moment Judson contacted Abel, Abel

once that happened, the entire

The Calm Before

his call with Louis when another one came in–from the

is going on? Are you

Ethan frowned. “What happened?”

men to guard Lillian’s hospital room. What does he

was already near

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and seeing how both families were

trembled with anger. “Ethan, she can’t take that kind of stress right now. Please tell

had fainted from sheer anger after seeing Judson’s

supposed to be discharged

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

1 from Judson.

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