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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Eddie’s earlier comments, his

couldn’t hold her liquor at all–just two

place apart looking for you. They

Let them panic. The longer they stew, the

to figure out who owns Seallats

his men are

had taken them far longer

Their people weren’t impressive

Stella and gently

out to me yet–he probably still doesn’t

will soon, Abraham

Abel would

once that happened, the entire Keene family would

Calm Before the

call with Louis when

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

Ethan frowned. “What happened?”

father sent ten men to guard Lillian’s hospital room. What does he think he’s

was already near

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both families were treating her–her mental state

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

sheer anger after

be discharged in two

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

1 from Judson.

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