Chapter 443
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Yorick’s face turned a shade paler.
Even though he’d mentally prepared himself before meeting Stella, seeing her like this still made him uncomfortable. He thought women should be more gentle, not as fierce as a storm. Stella was proving to be anything but.
Stella leaned out of her car window. “Can you move your car, or should I just ram it?”
The way she said “ram it” was as casual as if she were discussing the weather.
Yorick’s composure cracked further. All his prepared words vanished in the face of Stella’s bluntness.
All he could manage was, “Can you get Xander to take Hogan Freeman away?”
Last night, chaos had erupted within the Quarry family when someone who looked disturbingly like him showed up, brandishing a DNA test proving he was related to Yorick’s father. The whole family was in turmoil.
Yorick had barely held onto his sanity as he traced the situation back to Xander – Stella’s fiancé from Ferrowland.
To Yorick, this felt like a direct shot from Stella, a calculated vengeance.
When Stella heard Xander’s name, she hesitated. “Hogan Freeman? Who’s that?”
“You’re telling me you don’t know?” Yorick’s disbelief was evident.
“Are you serious?” Stella shot back. “You’re pulling this again?”
Whenever something involving Ursula came up, Yorick always had this accusatory tone.
And now it was happening again? If anything went wrong, was it always somehow her fault?
“He showed up with a DNA test matching my father. Stella, I know you hate me, but you shouldn’t…”
Yorick’s voice trailed off, his eyes locking onto hers, filled with a deep, spreading hurt. “You shouldn’t go this far for revenge.”
To throw the Quarry family into such disarray-this was her ultimate revenge on him.
“You think I hate you?” Stella asked incredulously.
“Don’t you?”
“I think you’re delusional,” Stella replied, rolling her eyes. “Hate you? Please, don’t flatter yourself. Love and hate are for people like Ursula who actually care about you. Who else would bother?”
Stella had no time for such nonsense.
Hate? That was a concept that required some measure of love, and she had nothing for Yorick.
“Revenge on you? Do I look like I have the time? If I wanted to get back at you, do you think I’d do it myself?”
Considering how the Larkin and Quarry families had suffered in business lately, it was clear Stella wasn’t the one orchestrating it.
Yorick was left speechless. Hearing Stella say it wasn’t her handiwork made him tense all over again.
True, she hadn’t lifted a finger. Last night, Xander had been the one to send Hogan Freeman over, leaving behind a smug “You’re welcome!”
Yorick laughed, a bitter and mocking
laugh. “Stella, really underestimated
you. You’ve got your brother
wrapped around your finger, and even your fiancé, who doesn’t have a shot with you, is doing your bidding.”
Stella just shook her head. This was madness!
But when it came to Xander, she was a bit uneasy. That Hogan Freeman was Xander’s doing? Why would he do such a thing? After all, on the surface, Xander had no deep vendettas against the Quarry family.
Forget it, Yorick was just being paranoid.
“To think I once believed you couldn’t live without me,” Yorick muttered. He’d always thought he was the Center of Stella’s universe He believed he was her rock, and even when she called off the engagement, he thought she was just throwing a tantrum.
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