Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 1045

Yvonne didn’t even spare Xander a glance. Instead, she picked up a piece of tender beef and dropped it into Stella’s bowl. “Ignore him. Just eat, sweetheart.”

Xander just stared, at a loss for words. Hadn’t he said it a hundred times? Stella was hardly a child anymore—she didn’t need to be fussed over like this. Or... did she? Was he missing something? Best to stay quiet, he decided—when Stella was around, anything he said just seemed to come out wrong.

He cut off the call with Shawn, who was still rambling on the other end, and turned his attention to Yvonne with a pleading expression. “You really want to be this harsh with him? I just don’t want anything to happen while he’s out there on his own.”

It was pitch black outside, nothing but mountains for miles. Shawn had over forty miles to walk—he might not even make it by sunrise.

“You’re welcome to go with him, you know,” Yvonne said, barely looking up.

Xander was left speechless.

Yvonne went on, “Honestly, he’s a grown man, not some helpless damsel. You really think ‘it’s not safe’ is a good enough excuse?”

He winced—when she put it that way, his argument did sound pretty flimsy. Shawn was furious right now; if anyone tried to intervene, they'd probably end up on the receiving end of that anger.

So, Xander fell silent.

Finally, Yvonne nudged him along. “Alright, enough. Eat up. Once we’re done, we’re heading back to the Schultz estate.”

Xander’s head snapped up. “Back to the Schultz estate?”

“Of course. Where else? I’m your wife now, aren’t I? Unless you think I should be staying somewhere else.”

He couldn’t help the twitch in his jaw as he glanced at Stella, wondering what conversation she and Yvonne might have had upstairs. As far as he knew, Yvonne would rather walk on hot coals than live with the Schultz family. Truth be told, the feeling was mutual—he found the whole place suffocating. The people, the atmosphere, their very presence seemed to make the air unbreathable.

And now Yvonne was volunteering to move in?

“Technically, we should… but—”

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