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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Recalling Eddie’s earlier comments, his expression softened. “She’s grown up. Knows how to care

couldn’t hold her liquor at all–just

for you. They must’ve found

panic. The longer they stew, the

figure out who owns

are

taken them far longer than

Their people weren’t

down at Stella and gently

me yet–he probably still doesn’t

will soon, Abraham

moment Judson contacted Abel, Abel

that happened, the entire Keene family would spiral

161 The Calm Before the

with Louis when another

what on earth is going on? Are you really planning to let

Ethan frowned. “What happened?”

guard Lillian’s hospital room.

already

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how both families were treating

she can’t take that kind of stress right now. Please tell your father to pull his ment

from sheer anger

was supposed to be

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

1 from Judson.

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