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 written all over his face.

three in the morning, and the hospital

asleep now, but only after hours of grueling pain.

who stayed by her

but Chris’s heart hurt even

to Catlin. “Yeah, I

they needed Allison, and they

that wasn’t his, he dialed

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Chapter 28

Valley, Stephanie was still in the hot seat, under Sebastian’s relentless

say something else, her phone buzzed.

at the unfamiliar number, then

again, the same unknown number flashing on

eyes narrowed. “Why didn’t you

nothing,” she said,

from Chris, she’d blocked calls from him

they weren’t happy, they’d

this was one of them, either Catlin or Chris.

not

but the

for the third time, Sebastian reached out and

“What are you doing?”

flinch. “Need me to get it for you? I assume you

in annoyance. “It’s no

an eyebrow. “No big deal? Non–stop

question. She couldn’t come up with an excuse fast enough.

unrelenting gaze, she finally answered the

moment the call connected, Chris’s

whisper. “Tell me

there was also a note of surrender in