A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 653

Seeing Caden's name flash on the screen, Starla answered directly. "What do you want?"

Her tone with him was as casual as it had always been. Caden was the only friend of Fairfax's she actually tolerated. Even with the bridge burned between her and her husband, she wasn't going to drag Caden into the crossfire.

"Hey, Starla," Caden started awkwardly. "So, uh, Fairfax is with me."

Her demeanor instantly frosted over. "And your point is?"

"Well, he drank a lot. Like, a lot. I'm trying to bring him home, but the guards at the gate won't let the car through!"

"And?"

"So... could you maybe tell them to step aside? Just so I can drive him up to the house?"

"Did they tell you exactly why your car isn't allowed inside?" Starla asked coolly.

"They said it's because Fairfax is in it!"

"There you go. Don't give the guards a hard time; they're just following my orders."

Caden was at a loss for words. Obviously, he knew they were following orders—that was the whole point of calling her! He needed her to lift the ban. But Starla wasn't budging. If Fairfax was in the vehicle, the vehicle wasn't crossing the property line.

He sighed. "Can I just take him back to Yelchin Group then? Let him sleep on his office couch?"

If she wouldn't let him in, fine. Starla was being merciless to the entire family, and Caden felt the sting of it.

"You can try," Starla said softly.

She didn't say yes, and she didn't say no. But that single word—try—was laced with enough underlying threat to make a grown man shudder.

Caden definitely picked up on the hostility. "Come on, Starla, you can't be serious..."

"The car isn't coming in, and he's not going back to his office! What do you expect me to do, come down and carry him up the hill myself?"

It was a ridiculously long walk, pitch black outside, and absolutely freezing.

"That sounds like a 'you' problem," Starla replied dismissively. "If you're too tired, just dump him on the side of the road."

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