When Love Comes Late by PASSION

Chapter 2030

“Mr.

Lowell?”

Bennett hurried over, looked her over, and smiled broadly.

“Good to see you’re okay.

I heard some disturbing rumors and feared the worst.

Seeing you up and about is a relief.

”

Stella sensed an underlying concern in his greeting and instinctively stepped back.

She smiled politely, interpreting Bennett’s approach as another attempt at courting her.

Just as she was about to reply, a harsh, angry voice interrupted, “Stella, you whore! You deserve to suffer!”

Stella turned toward the sound.

At the hospital entrance, a disheveled woman was charging toward her, clutching a bottle.

As the woman tilted the bottle, liquid splashed onto the ground, fizzing up bubbles.

realized, in horror, that it

The attacker was Elizabeth.

stunned into

Elizabeth’s face was a look of intense hatred mixed with a

a fierce motion, she hurled the acid

“Go to hell, bitch!”

Elizabeth’s reasoning was straightforward.

and regardless of his loyalty to her,

h.

Her prospects looked grim.

seemingly effortless happiness was anchored

Stella’s looks were marred,

their love be then? Stella would be discarded, left to languish as Elizabeth

morphed into one of

“Be careful!”

to shield her from the brunt of the

made

was so harsh and terrifying that it sent a

“Mr.

Lowell!” Stella screamed.

and saw his face turned pale with

and her

“Mr.

you…

himself to protect her from