Vengeance With My White Knight by Maya Kensington

Chapter 245

An hour later, Lorenzo walked out of the operating room, his expression as calm as ever. Ella had been waiting nervously by the door the entire time,

When Lorenzo saw her there, his eyes widened slightly. “You’ve been here the whole time?

His tone was unreadable. Ella nodded, tense, her gaze drifting to his shoulder, where a pressure bandage had been applied. “They got the bullet out? Does it hurt?” she asked cautiously.

Ella had never imagined that someone she knew might one day get shot. Yet here she was, living through it. She had even experienced her own brush with death not long ago.

In her mind, anyone who got shot should at least be unconscious for three days, then bedridden for a month.

But Lorenzo just walked out like it was nothing, alive and kicking. She couldn’t help but wonder if gangsters were born with underdeveloped pain receptors.

Lorenzo raised a brow at her. “You’re worried it hurts?” he asked, staring directly at her.

Ella froze for a moment before shaking her head firmly. “No. I was just making conversation.”

Without warning, Lorenzo grabbed her delicate chin between his fingers, “If you’re not worried,” he said, his voice low, “thent why are you still waiting out here?”

Ella flushed, suddenly at a loss for words. He had a point.

Just then. Cecil and Bernard followed Lorenzo out of the operating room. Both men were still wearing dark green surgical

scrubs.

Seeing Lorenzo holding Ella’s chin like that, Bernard instinctively spoke up. “Mr. Moretti, girls like gentlemen like Mr. Giovanni. Even if you’re ruthless, you should at least be gentle with girls.”

Bernard had seen firsthand just how gentle Sebastian could be with Stephanie. So of course, Sebastian became his go–to example.

As soon as he finished speaking, both Lorenzo and Cecil fell completely silent.

Cecil was stunned. Slowly, stiffly, he turned his head toward Bernard, looking at him like he’d lost his mind. Not only had Bernard dared to say something like that to Lorenzo, he had the audacity to compare him to Sebastian.

But Bernard, oblivious to the heavy silence thickening the air, added casually, “If you scare Mrs. Moretti off, you might lose her.”

Hearing this, Cecil, without missing a beat, made a run for it. “Mr. Moretti,” he said quickly, “I just remembered I have something urgent to take care of. I’ll be going

out of the line of fire with him. But today,

decided his life was more important:As for Bernard, he could only wish him luck. And without waiting

settled on Bernard. “Go on,” he said

shuddered at his

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a hurry to leave. They hadn’t even gone over the wound care instructions

tear your the wound care instruction Bernard, denly realizing he’d blundered, couldn’t worry it now He hated after Cecil, leaving

Inwardly griped that Geil hard left him in the furth

remained in the room. Ella tried to reist her face out of Lorenzo’s

hold on her face Still trying

go of me Ella said.

why Lorenzo didn’t refute Bernard’s earlier remark. She squirmed, and when Lorenzo didn’t release her.

her bones

it hurt, Lorenzo froze, then let go. “Go make some oatmeal,” he

startled that Lorenzo wanted her to cook oatmeal

added, “Apple

for Stephanie when she had a fever. But then she thought of

fired by me, Lorenzo said

When she first arrived, there was no cook. The cook was hired for just one day before getting the sack. Ella knew Lorenzo, being Sebastian’s man, could well

dismissal and worried

Lorenzo’s tone was nonchalant.

good, Ella replied automatically. She

went to his room. Ella, getting

others. Ella found the

answered the phone shortly.

heard over the phone. Ella asked, “What are you

I just gave him some black

Ella said, “Oh.

about you? Why call me at

making oatmeal

you cook oatmeal? Stephanie, who couldn’t cook, asked

looking down on me? You’ve eaten