Chapter 12
Chapter 12 Smash him with a bat
Now, Patrick finally understood why Susan always ended up fuming.
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Just like she had said, Stella was a debt collector, completely unyielding, impossible to reason with. No matter what he said, nothing got through to her. Since the soft approach didn’t work, he had no choice but to go hard.
“Fine, then. Your bank card stays frozen. Take your time to think it over. When you come to your senses, we’ll talk.”
Throwing down those harsh words, Patrick turned and left.
The room fell silent. Stella slammed the door shut. Just as she stepped back into the living room, her phone vibrated.
It was Jason number….
Today, she had already blocked several people Ethan, Susan, and Patrick. Now, if they wanted to reach her, they could only use someone else’s phone. Predictably, she ignored the call.
On the other end of the line, Ethan had just left the Keene family home, using Jason’s phone to call Stella. Once again, she declined. When he called back, it went straight to a busy tone, he had been blocked.
Ethan’s face darkened with rage. “Where the hell did she pick up this habit of ignoring calls?”
Jason twitched his lips.
“I think Ms. Dawson isn’t just ignoring your calls right now.” From the looks of it, she had infuriated the entire Reed family today, not just Ethan.
Ethan felt a sharp headache coming on…
“Drive to Kingston Heights.”
This had gone too far. Jason nodded. “Alright.”
An hour later.
By the time they arrived at Kingston Heights, it was already midnight. Stella was sound asleep. Ethan pressed the doorbell repeatedly, but she didn’t answer. Being turned away at this hour only made his already sour mood worse.
“Call a locksmith.”
Ethan had run out of patience.
Jason hesitated. “.
Just as he reached for his phone, the door swung open from the inside.
Stella stood there in her pyjamas, her face drowsy with sleep, tinged with irritation. In her hand was a baseball bat. From the look of her, she had clearly been woken up and was about to swing at whoever dared disturb her rest.
Jason instinctively took a step back. The moment Stella saw Ethan, her fury flared up. Without hesitation, she raised the bat and swung at him.
Ethan’s reflexes were quick he caught it mid–air. “You crazy woman…”
His teeth clenched in frustration.
She had hit him once this morning, and now she wanted to do it again? Was her temper always this extreme?All he had said was that the wedding needed to be postponed, and this was how the reacted?
Chapter 12 Smash him with a bat
Ethan walked straight to her fridge, pulled it open, and frowned when he saw it was nearly empty except for water.
“You don’t cook?”
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Stella looked at him like he was insane. Who wakes someone up in the middle of the night, checks their fridge, and asks if they cook? Wouldn’t anyone be annoyed? Well, she sure as hell was.
Ethan stated matter of factly, “I haven’t eaten.”
He had been running around all day, skipped lunch, got dragged through a mess at the Keene estate, and now he was
starving.
Stella’s expression grew even more incredulous..
“You seriously think I have food for you?”
Unbelievable. She barely cooked for herself, let alone for him. Was he expecting her to whip up a meal just because he said he was hungry?Did this man have brain damage?
Just this morning, we had fought like hell, and now he was here asking for food?
Ethan clenched his jaw in frustration. “You don’t know how to cook?”
Stella shot back, “Have you ever seen me cook?”
Forget whether she could, even if she could, she wouldn’t cook for him.
Ethan was momentarily stunned. Now that he thought about it, in the two years they had been engaged, Stella had never once cooked for him.
But Lillian…
She could cook. She could make soup. When she still lived in Kingston Heights, she would often send home cooked meals to
his office.
Stella smirked, as if reading his mind. “Confusing me with Lillian?”
Of course, she knew Lillian was good at housework.
When Stella had first returned to the Reed family, Lillian had taken on everything willingly, while Stella did nothing Naturally, everyone compared them, Lillian was capable, while she was useless.
Naturally, everyone compared her with Lilian. The comparison is that Lilian is good at everything, while she is useless. Ethan’s expression turned grim. “The wedding will proceed as scheduled. Are you satisfied now?”
He was clearly unwilling, as if he expected Stella to ease up now that she got what she wanted.
However, she simply raised an eyebrow. “This morning, you said it was postponed. Now you say it’s back on. Not even a full day has passed. You’re a grown man, can you be a little more reliable?”
Unreliable, that one word struck Ethan’s pride like a slap
Stella continued, “Does Lillian know?”
From the way he looked, it was obvious he had gone back to the Keene estate.
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