Chapter 604 The Setup

Stella went quiet.

She and Marie locked eyes, and for a second, Stella struggled to keep a straight face..

Marie let out a sharp breath and hung up the call, then turned to Stella. “Didn’t we agree this had to be someone familiar?”

Stella looked surprised.

Wait… it wasn’tMorris?

“Whoever did this clearly knew something about you. Everyone in Falvaria knows who you are. You think any random guy would dare come after you?”

Marie shook her head. “Not a chance.”

“Exactly,” Stella said. “So it’s either Morris trying to get back at you for marrying Derrick, or someone’s out to screw you over–on purpose.”

Marie fell silent. Revenge? A setup?

“But didn’t Morris’s guys just say he was with them the whole night?” she asked.

So that means… it wasn’t Morris last night? Shit. That made things a whole lot worse.

Stella nodded. “Which only leaves one option–someone’s deliberately targeting you.”

Marie sat still.

Targeting her? In Falvaria? Who’d even dare?

Stella looked at her seriously. “Whoever it was had to hate you enough to risk everything. They knew what they were doing.”

No doubt. In Stella’s eyes, only someone with a death wish would come after Marie. If someone really did, it meant they wanted to destroy her completely.

“Hate me?” Marie muttered, her mind suddenly fuzzy.

“Can you think of another reason?”

Marie muttered, “If we’re talking about people in Falvaria who hate me, that list is actually kind of long.”

She wasn’t wrong. There were plenty who didn’t like her.

Stella waved that off. “Those people are just jealous. That’s not the same as hate.”

off guard. Right. That was true. Most of those people didn’t

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Which meant…

you’re saying is, if it wasn’t Morris, then

in Rivermount, Lillian used to pull stunts like this

that stuff in Rivermount was just some

hates me… really, truly hates

it softly, mind racing, flipping

did she feel even slightly guilty for

her energy was focused on figuring out who had tried to ruin

a name popped into her

“Wait–I’ve got it.”

“Who?” Stella asked quickly.

her hand, snapping her fingers. “What’s her name again… the

a

all over me lately, and Ella’s

my guts.”

comes after me instead of yelling at

Morris’s beatdown this morning didn’t even seem that

the reason

makes a lot

her feet, sending the dining chair crashing to

thought that Ella might’ve been the one

to kill

to let something like this slide. Not even for

Stella could react, Marie

slipped, and it hit the ground–but she recovered instantly,

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Stella blinked. “Uh…”

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