When Love Comes Late by PASSION

Chapter 868

It was late at night, and the road was deserted.

His foot pressed firmly on the gas pedal.

Suddenly, a dark figure leaped into his field of vision.

Matthew’s pupils contracted, and he instinctively slammed the brakes.

The car, traveling at high speed, careened into the protective railing, the wild cat’s scream drowned out by the deafening crash.

In the stillness of midnight, Stella remained wide awake, her gaze fixed on her watch.

Nearly an hour had passed since Matthew had ventured out, yet he hadn’t returned.

She cast her eyes downward, contemplative.

the next two hours, she would depart from

from her bed and powered up her computer, resuming

fledgling studio demanded her unwavering dedication, and there was a multitude

she immersed herself in

sketches were nearing completion, but the choice of materials for the

settled on silk and shell-shaped buckles, a combination that harmonized elegantly with

the young girl from the oil painting in her

only ceased her work when the pain in her wrist

and

had elapsed, but Matthew was still conspicuously absent, having not even

and she

files to a USB drive, changed into her

since she moved to Prosper Bay from the hospital, she only brought a few of her own

had supplied

would only take her own