Vengeance With My White Knight by Maya Kensington

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Chapter 12

Now Chad kind of understood why Catlin always seemed so upset after talking to Stephanie.

As Catlin had said, Stephanie was really tough to deal with. It felt like nothing anyone said to her ever got through–she w completely unaffected by anything.

Since the gentle approach didn’t work, Chad decided to go for something more forceful.

He said coldly, “Fine, I’ll freeze your credit card for now. Think it over, and let me know when you’ve come to your senses.

Then, he stormed out.

The room fell silent.

Stephanie slammed the door behind him, then turned back toward the living room, her phone buzzing in her hand.

The screen showed Kevin’s name.

Today, she’d already blocked several people–Chris, Catlin, even Chad.

Now, they could only reach her through someone else’s phone.

Just like before, she didn’t pick up.

She knew it was Chris calling from Kevin’s phone.

The call rang through but cut off after a few seconds.

When Chris tried again, the line was already busy. He knew–she’d blocked Kevin’s number, too.

His face flushed red with frustration. “When did she start blocking people like it’s a game?”

Kevin just smirked, lips twitching. He knew exactly what was going on but wasn’t about to say it outright.

After a beat, he replied, “Miss Giovanni probably isn’t just ignoring your calls.”

Kevin knew it wasn’t just Chris who was upset about being blocked today. The whole Hart family was frustrated, too.

Chris rubbed his temples, trying to think of a way to get through to her, but his head was pounding.

hands. “Let’s just go to

whole drama had dragged on

nodded. “Got it.”

An hour later…

Valley, it was already

rang the doorbell repeatedly, but she didn’t answer.

at midnight only made Chris’s mood

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“Call

up with this anymore. He needed answers from Stephanie,

Chris was about to lose it, but he did as he was told.

Kevin was about to pull out his phone, the door suddenly swung open.

pissed. She was holding a baseball bat, her grip

woken up badly and

twitching, not sure whether to

she saw Chris standing there, her anger flared. She raised the bat, clearly intending to take a swing at

the bat

his teeth.

had hit him and Olivia,

wonder–is she furious because he

Chris pushed his

walked in, she tossed the bat aside with a frustrated sigh. “Say

opened it, and saw that it only had water–nothing else.

his voice dripping with incredulity.

look, her eyebrows raised.

be mad–Who the hell shows up at someone’s house in the middle of the night, opens their fridge, and asks if they cook?

Stephanie was absolutely

explained, “I haven’t

getting bombarded with questions from his parents when he finally got home, he hadn’t had a chance to grab lunch. Now, he was starving.

frowned, clearly thrown off. Then, her expression shifted

like someone who’s gonna cook

might say, but this wasn’t even close to what she

cooked–she either ate out

phrased it, it was obvious he hadn’t thought this through.

huge argument, and now he was expecting her to cook for