The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 590 Surveillance “Malfunction”

The security guard was drenched in sweat. “Ms…. Ms. Marie, the cameras really did break.”

At that moment, both the guard and the hotel manager looked like they were about to cry. They couldn’t say a word of truth.

Stella narrowed her eyes at them in silence.

“They really were broken,” the guard stammered.

Internally, he was already weeping.

What kind of karma did I walk into? Each one of them is scarier than the last.

But the moment he thought about how that person had threatened him at gunpoint–how they’d even used his family to pressure him–his gut clenched. He really might cry.

Stella brushed her fingers over her polished nails. “Last chance. Who deleted the footage?”

She lifted her eyes slowly, the chill in her gaze enough to freeze bone.

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The security guard met her eyes–and collapsed to his knees in panic. “It wasn’t deleted! I swear it wasn’t! The system just broke!”

Stella picked up the

gun.

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The entire room went silent. As she raised it and pointed straight at him, the security guard screamed, arms over his head, eyes squeezed shut. “It’s broken! I swear! Even if you kill me, it’s still broken!”

The hotel manager jumped in. “Please, Ms. Marie! This isn’t necessary–the cameras really are just broken!”

“This is a serious failing on our part. We’ll compensate you, I swear.”

Faced with Stella’s deceptively sweet but deadly pressure, the manager and guard were rambling in pure

terror.

Marie let out a cold laugh. “I was assaulted, you want to compensate me? How, exactly?”

“H–How… to compensate…”

Yeah. That was the question.

F

THE

willingly do that kind of thing. But this? She’d been assaulted

kind of

tha

spine was soaked with cold sweat. He was completely

and lightly pressed Stella’s wrist. “Forget it. Looks like the system really was

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they looked–they were practically ghosts already, and still hadn’t coughed up any answers. That meant it probably was

Anyone willing to risk death just to

she lowered the

the guard and the manager exhaled deeply

“Get out,” Marie snapped.

with money? Or maybe

money, and as for

guard practically fled like they’d been granted a

just the two of them, Stella glanced at Marie. “It really was

“Mm.”

Marie sounded drained.

a nightmare. That bastard better pray I never find him,

have another

do?” Marie perked up

Stella nodded. “Street surveillance.”

look for? This is a

surveillance? Sounded like a long

neck. “I

What? Someone she knew?

know would be

if it really was someone familiar–then that would make things

matter what kind of ‘familiar‘ they were. She’d tear them

Back at Derrick’s villa-

all there, faces

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sat there, a cigar between his fingers, cold fury seeping from

his expression was by far