Vengeance With My White Knight by Maya Kensington

Chapter 28

For a moment. Stephanie wasn’t sure if she’d heard him right.

She noticed the subtle shift in Sebastian’s tone when he mentioned the name “Chris it went cold, like he was talking about something he didn’t want to touch.

She shrugged, trying to play it cool. “They’ve got nothing to do with me now.”

Even though the Hart family was her biological family, the truth was, she was only back because Valentina had put the pressure on her.

Getting engaged to Chris? That was her escape from Valentina’s control.

Once she had that ring on her finger, Valentina stopped bothering her completely.

Sebastian’s eyebrow arched. “They’ve got nothing to do with you?”

Stephanie let out a breath. “Valentina threatened me. I got engaged to Chris so she and Richard would back off.”

Sebastian’s icy stare never wavered. Stephanie knew it was time to tell him the truth.

Now that Valentina was behind bars, the pressure was off. The timing felt right.

Sure enough, Sebastian’s expression softened, just a little.

Across the city, things were far from calm.

At the hospital, Chris stood helplessly by Olivia’s bed, watching her twist in pain.

Just yesterday, she’d been fine enough to stop by his office. Now? She could barely move.

Catlin was practically beside herself, pacing the floor.

“Chris,” She said, “we need to move fast. her condition is critical. The liver and uterus are the big problems right now.”

Her liver needed surgery, and so did her heart.

They were hoping Allison could step in for the uterine cancer so Olivia wouldn’t have to endure another surgery.

ran a hand through his hair, his exhaustion written all

was three in the morning, and the hospital had quieted

only

stayed by her side were tortured mentally.

but Chris’s heart

tired of talking to Catlin. “Yeah,

without Catlin saying it, he knew: they needed

a phone that wasn’t his, he dialed Stephanie’s

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Chapter 28

Cloudridge Valley, Stephanie was still in the hot seat,

about to say something else, her phone buzzed.

unfamiliar number, then instinctively hit “end.”

again, the same unknown number flashing on the screen.

“Why didn’t you

she said, shrugging it

her divorce from Chris, she’d blocked calls from him and the

gotten out of hand, and when they weren’t happy, they’d just call her up.

this was one of them,

not with

up, but the phone rang again.

the third time, Sebastian reached out and placed

twitched. “What are you doing?”

“Need me to get it for you? I assume you wouldn’t

in annoyance. “It’s no big

big deal? Non–stop calling in

guard by his question. She couldn’t come up with an excuse fast

answered the

call connected, Chris’s tired voice came

voice was hoarse, barely a whisper. “Tell me

sounded worn down, but there was also a note of surrender