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.

a hand through his hair, his exhaustion

in the morning, and the hospital

now, but only after hours

physically, while those who stayed by her side were

ached, but Chris’s heart

was tired of talking to Catlin. “Yeah, I know.”

Catlin saying it, he knew: they needed Allison, and they needed

that wasn’t his, he

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Chapter 28

Stephanie was still in the hot seat, under

as he was about to say something else, her phone

the unfamiliar number, then instinctively

the same unknown number

“Why didn’t you

said, shrugging it

everything with her divorce from Chris, she’d blocked calls

of hand, and when they

of

pick up, not with

but the phone

was about to hit “end” for the third time, Sebastian reached out and placed his hand in

eyelid twitched. “What are you doing?”

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

twitched in annoyance. “It’s no big

big deal? Non–stop calling in the middle of

his question. She couldn’t come

she finally answered the phone, letting

the call connected, Chris’s tired

was hoarse, barely a whisper. “Tell me what

worn down, but there was also