Vengeance With My White Knight by Maya Kensington

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

stephanie’s breath caught in her throat, her whole body tense. For a moment, she couldn’t calm down.

Her hands shook as she grabbed the phone. “Hello?”

“Miss Giovanni” The voice on the other end was unmistakable.

Stephanie’s face went blank, her eyes betraying the storm of emotions she was fighting to keep in check.

She forced herself to speak. “Yeah, it’s me.”

The guy went on, “Mr. Giovanni’s flight is arriving at Long Harbor at 8 PM tonight. He wants you to meet him at the airport.”

Stephanie’s heart skipped a beat.

She gripped the phone tighter, her palm sweating. “He… he’s coming to Long Harbor?”

The weight of this moment hit her all at once. He was finally coming, after all this time.

Just yesterday, she’d had swiped the wrong black card while shopping. She knew he’d find out, but she hadn’t expected it to blow up this fast.

The voice on the other end belonged to Elliot Grant, an assistant.

Polite, respectful on the surface–but everyone in Fiorenza feared him. Elliot had a way of making people shake in their boots.

And if Elliot could do that… well, Sebastian Giovanni? The man he assisted? He could do anything.

He was the man who’d raised Stephanie.

Elliot’s voice came again, cold as ever. “He also said you better have an explanation ready. Or…”

He didn’t need to finish. The silence said it all.

Stephanie shuddered.

She hung up, the motion casual, but inside, her mind was racing.

The afternoon felt like a blur. She couldn’t focus. Her thoughts kept drifting. Even during the meeting, she struggled to stay

present.

All she could think about was Sebastian.

He was the guy the Hart family was looking for–the one who raised her.

just have power–he controlled everything. The legal world. The illegal world. He was the king of

ago, just before she left Fiorenza. Her

in her

hit six, she stepped outside–and her phone

she answered, “Hello?”

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Chapter 24

you really block my by Cathie’s voice came through, furious, like she was

at the busy street, answering flatly.

could joke

in with them. Always the high expectations, the endless judgment. Catlin was the worst–cold and harsh.

the coldnews in Stephanie’s voice, Catlin’s

best friend, right? You’re the one who sent her overseas, aren’t you?”

cold laugh. “Yeah, I

a long silence on the other end. Catlin sounded stunned. “How

so mad,

expected Stephanie to deny it. But instead, the just owned it,

didn’t care about this family. Not

to interrogate her, but Stephanie had

gasped. “So, you

going on between Olivia and me, you really think it’s surprising I’d cause a

Olivia’s games, the way she pulled strings

for that kind of underhandedness. If she wanted something done, she’d

bluntness, she almost couldn’t catch

couldn’t even find the words to express her anger anymore. All she could

sharp. “What, Catlin? You want me to bring Allison back

said “Catlin” made

all at once–since Stephanie came back to the Hart family, she’d never once called her

it stung. It wasn’t out of any

choice–Stephanie didn’t want to

stop herself, Catlin snapped,

she shot back, “Do you really want to argue about

exist in Stephanie’s vocabulary. She had two options: call

widened at how casually Stephanie spoke, like it didn’t even

had been sitting in her chest all this time–heavy and painful–and now it

said, “Get Dr.

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