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.

world. The illegal world. He was

mind flashed back to what happened three years ago, just before she left

She was lost in her thoughts until

the clock hit six, she stepped outside–and her phone started buzzing

she

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Chapter 24

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

at the busy street, answering flatly. “You think I was

joke

Always the high expectations, the endless judgment.

voice, Catlin’s anger only

best friend, right?

let out a shon, cold laugh. “Yeah, I did.

a long silence on the other end. Catlin sounded

was so mad, her hands

But instead, the just owned it, no hesitation.

hard. It was clear now–Stephanie didn’t care about this family. Not

but Stephanie had just flat–out confirmed everything without hesitation.

you

shrugged, almost like she couldn’t be bothered. “What’s the big deal? With everything going on

games, the way she pulled strings

had no time for that kind of underhandedness. If she wanted something done, she’d do it straight up.

so stunned by Stephanie’s bluntness, she

find the words to express her anger anymore. All she could manage was repeating, “You… how could

“What, Catlin? You want

said “Catlin” made Catlin

to the Hart family, she’d never once called her “Mom.” In

stung. It wasn’t

was a deliberate choice–Stephanie didn’t want to show her even the

herself, Catlin

“Do you really want to argue about something that pointless on the phone?”

word “mom didn’t exist in Stephanie’s vocabulary. She had

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

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

Dr. Pierce

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