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.

hand through his hair, his exhaustion

in the morning, and

asleep now, but only after hours of

stayed by

Chris’s heart hurt even

talking to Catlin. “Yeah, I know.”

without Catlin saying it, he knew: they needed Allison, and they needed her now.

wasn’t his, he

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in the hot

as he was about to say something else, her phone

number,

the same unknown number

narrowed. “Why didn’t you

she said, shrugging it

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

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

assumed this was one of them,

to pick up, not with Sebastian

hung up, but the phone

Sebastian reached out and placed his hand in front of her.

“What are

didn’t flinch. “Need me to get it for you? I assume you wouldn’t want

annoyance. “It’s no big deal.”

raised an eyebrow. “No big deal? Non–stop calling in the middle of the

caught off guard by his question. She

answered the phone, letting out

connected, Chris’s tired

hoarse, barely a whisper. “Tell me what you want. I’ll give it to

sounded worn down, but there was also a note