The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 491 Pregnant and Still Throwing Hands

Those deep, penetrating eyes carried a suffocating chill.

It was obvious–when Abraham had just said “baby,” he meant it for Derrick to hear.

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And everything Stella had just discussed with her mother in the study made it crystal clear, Derrick still harbored feelings for Stella.

Derrick looked at Abraham, his breath unsteady.

In that moment, his narrowed pupils shot out daggers of ice.

He glared fiercely at Stella before turning to follow Abraham

Inside the room.

Stella set the photo frame down and reached out to support Marie. “Are you okay? Are you hurt?”

Marie shook her head. “I’m fine. What were you doing just now? Are you out of your mind, provoking him like that?”

The look in Derrick’s eyes as he turned toward Stella just moments ago–so dangerous,

Marie had even suspected that if Stella hadn’t smashed that vase, Derrick might’ve strangled her on the spot.

Stella said, “I saw him hitting you.”

“Hitting me? Please. I’m not pregnant, and I’ve got thick skin, even if I fought him, I wouldn’t come out too bad. But what if you got hurt–what about the baby?”

When Abraham had said Stella was pregnant, Marie had been stunned.

Once she snapped out of it, the fear hit her hard. Thank goodness she’d reacted quickly and managed to grab hold of Derrick

If Stella had gotten injured, then what?

Evelyn stepped up, clearly shaken. “Exactly, Star. That was way too dangerous just now. You’re about to be a mother, and you still jumped into a brawl

had been

forward

“jumped into a brawl,”

Marie were fighting and she jumped in too–yeah, that

say anything, Evelyn continued, “I get that you’re worried

to Marie and Derrick fighting, who knows who’d actually come out

days now, and every

what her daughter was capable of; and while there’d been resentment between her and Derrick over the

Speaking of Derrick…

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that over the years, the Dawson family had actually wronged him quite a

all the fury from

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barely even had a chance to explain

down across

Stella a once–over. “Let

so chaotic earlier,

shook her head. “No. I

“Wait–you’re hurt!”

a shard

the blood

vase, weren’t you? How did you

the cut in her palm. “I have

on instinct; it had seemed intact. How had she

felt it at the

pregnant;

Marie was already panicking.

they hurried Stella off to the

heard Eddie was headed to the

them, grew darker and darker in the face. “How long do you plan

was already seething; and this

weren’t enough–she’d kept it going for ten damn minuses, What kind