hapter 141
At that moment, Yorick’s mind went completely blank.
His eyes seething with rage, he glared at Stella, his lips quivering as if he was about to say something. However, words failed him entirely.
Stella glanced at Yorick and then at the large diamond ring in the box. For a second, she thought she had seen it wrong.
A ring, really?
Wait, Jeremy…
His idea of making amends was a gift for marriage proposal? Was he too naive to understand the significance of a ring?
Qr…
pway he fell for her and was proposing. That was off the table!
Even the most clueless person wouldn’t gift a ring. So, was it because of Jeremy’s brain rot that he didn’t grasp the meaning of a ring?
“Stella!” Yorick roared, his voice thick with fury.
“Are you nuts? Why are you shouting? So what if he proposes to me? What’s it
to
His voice almost shattered her eardrums. Truly, he was beyond help at this point!
you?” Stella snapped.
She and Jeremy barely had any connection, and it wasn’t like Yorick didn’t know that. To even link that to a proposal was beyond her.
Yorick’s breathing grew erratic, “Well, excellent, so you have that much backing you up! No wonder you dared to break off our engagement, and even cut ties with the Larkin family.”
“Yes, I have that much support. So what? Does that inconvenience your plans to oppress me?”
Indeed, Yorick and the Larkin family were infuriated, and that was exactly why.
They had tried every trick in the book, hoping to see Stella come crawling back to them in misery. But what did they get? Not even a whimper of surrender.
Instead, they saw the formidable force backing her.
Right, she had a powerful force behind her.
While Yorick was busy digging into her past, there was this mysterious force thwarting his efforts.
And then there were all these men around her.
Just how much about Stella did Yorick not know?
Stella stood up and walked towards the floor–to–ceiling window, looking down at the street below, where the traffic flowed like ants. Her smile looked even more scornful, “Planning to cancel my cards, shut down my studio, huh? What’s your plan? To make me unable to pay my rent, to make me apologize to Ursula, to beg you on my knees to reactivate my cards, or to keep me from starving to death?”
Her words, dripping with sarcasm, struck Yorick hard.
Even though these were their plans all along, hearing Stella spell it out made him uncomfortably aware of their pettiness.
More than anything, it choked him up.
“Don’t put Ursula into this. It’s your own actions and now you want to drag her down?”
“What have I done?”
The moment Yorick finished, Stella’s sarcastic retort was ready.
“In the beginning, I didn’t do anything, did I?”
Yorick was speechless.
Stella continued, “In the beginning, you had no idea that the house at Silk River Residences is mine, nor did you know that I own a studio. At that time, what exactly did I do to provoke you? To warrant such extreme retaliation from you?”
Yorick was furious now.
But to Stella, his anger and that of the Larkin family stemmed from the same source. They were enraged because, despite all their efforts, they couldn’t suppress her.
Yorick struggled for breath, “Enough with your words!”
“Oh! Done talking, are we? Then tell me, why are you here?”
Yorick was Thomentarily speechless.
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What was he here for? In the heat of the moment, he had actually forgotten.
This damned woman, she always had a way of infuriating him to the point of oblivion at the worst possible times.
Stella raised an eyebrow, “You’re here about Wave Residence, aren’t you?”
At the mention of that place, Yorick felt a sharp pang in his chest.
Indeed, he was there for that reason. He had promised Ursula he would had her discharged within a week and move into Wave Residence.
He had told her about the room where one could see the sunrise in the morning and the sunset in the evening and hear the sound of the
ocean.
Now, on the third day, if he couldn’t secure Wave Residence…
The thought made Yorick feel suffocated.
ave you been staying at Wave Residence these past few days?”
He had checked. She hadn’t been living at Silk–River Residences, and hadn’t returned there in days.
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