Vengeance With My White Knight by Maya Kensington

Chapter 31

Chapter 31

When Chris walked out of Cloudridge Valley, his head was buzzing, his mind in turmoil.

Kevin had been waiting downstairs. The moment he saw Chris‘ dark, stormy expression, and the bruises on his face, he couldn’t help but gasp.

“So, Miss Giovanni still refused, huh?” he asked.

Refusing to marry was one thing, but hitting someone? Kevin shuddered, thinking about Stephanie’s fiery temper.

Chris shot him a sharp, icy glance. Kevin instantly knew–another failure.

With a sigh, Kevin muttered, “You can’t just force these things. Women need to be coaxed.”

“Coaxed?” Chris sneered. The word dripped with sarcasm.

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Kevin fell silent. Honestly, with Stephanie’s stubbornness, no amount of coaxing would work. People saw her as fiery–small in ability, big in attitude.

“Kevin,” Chris didn’t continue the topic. His eyes narrowed dangerously and spoke up. “Find out who that man she’s been spending time with is.”

Kevin blinked. “What? Another man?”

He stared at Chris in disbelief. “Miss Giovanni with another man? Impossible! She is always by herself. Even if someone is with her, it’s Miss Turner.”

In Kevin’s eyes, Stephanie was someone who wouldn’t even bother leaving the house.

She was definitely a couch potato, living off others, too proud to step outside. How could she possibly have another man around?

for the Hart family, she probably wouldn’t even

and chimed in, “I ran into him. Do

ran into him?”

mind flashed to Sebastian’s cold, dangerous eyes, and that face, which felt strangely familiar

gun… That guy was just insane.

of those underworld types,” Chris

was–someone like that even existed in Long Harbor. Whoever it

deepened. “That can’t be right,‘ he thought to himself. ‘With Miss Giovanni’s temper, how could she mix with someone like that?‘

chaos had completely shattered Stephanie’s

jumbled, especially with Sebastian

his lap now, feeling

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her close, as if in his mind, she was still the little girl he used to spoil. But she wasn’t a little girl anymore she

of that gentle affection. Instead, his

her head, glancing at him. “Can you just ask whatever

on Chris. She’d already explained everything, and now this idiot was making it all for

an eyebrow. “You were

head. “No, I just didn’t want my home, the place I’ve lived for two

presence. He was

without hesitation during the kidnapping incident of her years ago. That was when she realized–beneath his soft exterior lay a heart as dangerous

left, she was certain he would’ve done

Harbor,” she said

giving me a lecture, Stefi?”

just saying, the reason I even agreed to marry Chris… Just, don’t go