Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 1041

Hearing that Shawn hadn’t been beaten, both Dan and Anders Lowry were about ready to explode.

The two of them were nearly seething with rage.

Still, Anders managed to bite back his temper and ground out through clenched teeth, “So she didn’t punish you at all?”

Dan’s face darkened even more.

Right then, Anders was desperate to hear that Shawn had suffered—something, anything gruesome. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that they’d both been put through hell by Yvonne. They needed just a scrap of misery from Shawn’s side to feel the universe was a little more just.

But instead...

“She did punish me,” Shawn replied.

“What did she do?”

Those three words—“she did punish me”—made Dan and Anders both straighten in anticipation. They couldn’t wait to hear exactly how bad it was.

As they braced themselves, hoping for some karmic retribution, Shawn casually tossed out, “She’s making me walk almost forty miles through the mountains!”

Anders stared, lost for words.

Dan just gaped.

They exchanged a look, their faces darkening as their blood began to boil.

Meanwhile, back on the call, Shawn had no clue that his “forty-mile walk” had nearly given these two a conniption.

He went on, still complaining, “Yvonne is ruthless. Seriously, she actually made me hike nearly forty miles on a mountain trail.”

“Forty miles! She should try it herself and see how brutal it is!”

“And at night, too. Could she be any harsher?”

Anders couldn’t even muster a response. Hearing Shawn grumble that Yvonne was “so harsh,” he was literally too furious for words.

The thing was, Shawn really was grumbling about how hard Yvonne had been on him—but compared to what she’d done to them, it was basically nothing!

Fuming, Anders hung up the phone.

Dan looked about ready to explode himself—his expression was as dark as a thunderstorm. Xander, next to them, was nearly doubling over, holding his side in frustration. Shawn’s punishment had been just a long walk!

Anders shook his head, “Forget it. Yvonne’s always been biased toward Xander—no use pretending otherwise.”

As soon as he said it, the whole room seemed to tense. The air nearly felt thinner.

Carroll hadn’t expected it either—compared to what their crew had suffered, Yvonne’s so-called “punishment” of Xander and Shawn felt almost laughably light.

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