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?”

a

seeing this mess, she wasn’t in the mood to eat anymore. She nodded reluctantly.

The air

arm gently and led her out of the chaos. Everyone in the room stood there, dumbfounded. Chris, in particular, couldn’t believe what

going on between Macro and

Valley with the gun? He clearly wasn’t

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backup after backup

couldn’t deny that if so, Stephanie was playing the game like

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the floor, groaning in pain from Stephanie’s brutal

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were coming down the stairs when they saw the

gave Jackson a headache. His family was hosting the event, and he’d designed every detail himself, but now this? This

in with the report: his sister Lilian had

at that time. Without saying a word, he

on the Hodge family’s reputation? As the thought crossed his mind, Jackson grew

quick look at the scene downstairs, but he didn’t see either Macro

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

him off. “If you can’t even handle your

understand what their family drama have to do with the

could process the situation, Sebastian was already marching downstairs.

carting off Tyler. Lilian was ready to follow him.

stopped her.

beat up by Stephanie! I’m going to

go with him. But Jackson was sick

enough. He couldn’t figure out how Lilian got mixed up with

Tyler was hurt, it wasn’t hard for

to leave, Jackson’s anger flared. “Where do you think you’re going?” he yelled. “Go

about?” Lilian shot back. “Let go of me!”

the butler, “Derek, take Lilian to her

immediately stepped forward and nodded, “Yes,

“What are you doing?” she refused to go upstairs and was determined

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warning glare. “We’ll talk

he stormed out, leaving