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.

The legal world.

happened three years ago, just before she left Fiorenza.

didn’t matter anymore. She was lost in her

six, she stepped outside–and her phone started buzzing nonstop.

distracted, she answered,

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Chapter 24

really block my by Cathie’s voice came through, furious, like she was about to explode.

busy street, answering flatly. “You think I

one who could joke

them. Always the high expectations, the endless judgment. Catlin was the worst–cold

the coldnews in Stephanie’s voice, Catlin’s anger only flared up

you tell me, Allison is your best friend,

shon, cold laugh. “Yeah, I did. So what?”

on the other end.

was so mad, her hands

it. But instead,

now–Stephanie didn’t care about this family. Not

but Stephanie had

“So, you admit it?”

shrugged, almost like she couldn’t be bothered. “What’s the big deal? With everything going on between Olivia and me, you really think it’s

the way she pulled

of underhandedness. If she wanted something done, she’d do it straight up. No

stunned by Stephanie’s bluntness, she

her anger anymore. All she could manage was repeating, “You… how

want me to bring Allison back so

“Catlin” made Catlin

back to the Hart family, she’d never once called

now, hearing Stephanie say it like that, it stung. It wasn’t out of any

choice–Stephanie didn’t want to show

stop herself, Catlin snapped, “I’m your

she shot back, “Do you really want to

vocabulary. She had two options: call her Catlin, or Mrs.

casually Stephanie spoke, like it didn’t even

as if a weight had been sitting in her chest all this time–heavy and painful–and now

breaths, Catlin said, “Get Dr. Pierce

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