Vengeance With My White Knight by Maya Kensington

Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Was Stephanie disgusted with him because of Olivia? Or was it because of that random guy in her apartment? Chris couldn’t help but think.

It suddenly hit Chris that maybe, just maybe, Stephanie wasn’t interested in marrying him at all.

The thought of “not interested” was like a fist to the chest. It made it hard to breathe.

He grabbed her wrist tight and commanded, “Come with me.”

Stephanie snapped, “Leave me alone!”

Chris whipped around. The moment their eyes locked, he saw nothing but icy cold in hers.

“You want to end up like Tyler?” Stephanie’s stared at him, voice completely void of warmth. “Need a ride to the hospital?*

Chris froze, his expression hardening.

Before he could respond, Macro stepped in, grabbing Chris‘ wrist with precision. “Mr. Ashford, you better let Stefi go

“Who the hell are you?” Chris growled.

First, there was some guy with a gun at Cloudridge Valley last night, and now another one? This was totally out of his mind.

But when Chris finally registered Macro’s face, his eyes widened in shock.

He recognized Macro. This was the guy–the world–renowned heart surgeon from Fiorenza.

He knew Macro mysteriously quit his medical career two years ago, but his name still carried a lot of weight.

…I’m not important,” Macro said coolly. “But if you keep holding her like that, I’ll make sure you’ll be in big trouble tonight.”

Macro’s words came out in a smooth, deadly tone, his eyes narrowing with cold precision. Even Chris couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine.

On

One by one, Chris slowly released his grip Stephanie’s wrist.

Once she was free, Stephanie was quickly pulled behind Macro, who gave her a quick, reassuring look.

“Are you alright?” Macro asked.

Stephanie massaged her sore wrist, her expression nonchalant. “I’m fine.”

Macro shot Chris a cold glance, then turned to Stephanie with warm smile and continued, “Did you eat?”

took a small bite

this mess, she wasn’t in the mood to eat

The air in

out of the chaos. Everyone in the room stood there, dumbfounded. Chris, in particular, couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

on between Macro and Stephanie? Chris‘ mind

Valley with the gun? He clearly wasn’t a nobody. Was Stephanie

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stacking backup after backup like this?

if so, Stephanie was playing the game like a pro–lining up one heavy hitter after

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sprawled on the floor, groaning in pain from Stephanie’s brutal

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when they saw the chaos near

event, and he’d designed

rushed in with the report: his sister Lilian had

Without saying a word, he stood up

the Hodge family’s reputation?

took a quick look at the scene downstairs, but he didn’t

trying to stir the topic. “Lilian doesn’t really know how to behave herself. Let’s head back and finish the

Sebastian cut him off. “If you can’t even handle your own family, we need to

drama have

situation, Sebastian was already marching downstairs. Jackson was left standing there, completely

carting off Tyler. Lilian was ready to follow

her arm and stopped her. “Where do

up by Stephanie! I’m going

recognized girlfriend, she believed she had every right to go with him. But Jackson was sick of Lilian and had no respect

and no substance enough. He couldn’t figure

for Jackson to guess:

Jackson’s anger flared. “Where do you think you’re going?” he yelled. “Go back to your room!

talking about?” Lilian shot back. “Let go

the butler, “Derek,

forward and nodded, “Yes,

“What are you doing?” she

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warning glare.

that, he stormed out, leaving Lilian