Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 872

Derek slid a photo across the desk toward Derek.

Derek picked it up and glanced at it.

It was a shot of Hull with a woman—just their backs, but Hull had his arm around her as they stood on the rooftop of the Litamark Sky Lounge. The woman’s head was resting on Hull’s shoulder.

You didn’t need to see their faces to know how close they were.

Derek stared. “…”

Close, huh?

What a joke. What a pathetic excuse.

He clenched the photo so hard his hand trembled with anger. “Get the car ready!”

“Yes, sir…”

Caden gave a quick nod.

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Meanwhile, over with Susanna…

After Hull’s little talk, she’d dropped the whole “I want to go back to Black Gate” thing, especially after seeing the coded message her mother had left.

Now, her one and only worry was Yvonne…

She was terrified that Yvonne would totally lose it when she found out Susanna had been hanging around Hull all this time. Yvonne could be a force of nature when she got mad—Susanna had seen the videos of her taking down Dan. It was legendary.

Hull slipped his arms around her from behind. “What’s on your mind?”

“Yvonne,” Susanna mumbled.

She was so much shorter than him that, when Hull hugged her from behind, her head barely reached above his stomach. Maybe her forehead touched his chest if she stood on tiptoe.

She turned in his arms, wrapping hers around his lean waist.

Hull raised an eyebrow. “Yeah?”

“If Yvonne finds out, she’ll totally beat me up,” Susanna said, half-whining.

Susanna groaned.

Hull looked at her, a sly smile on his lips. “Why do you think he wants to see me?”

“Why else? He’s pissed,” Susanna replied flatly.

She’d been glued to Hull’s side, and meanwhile, both Hull and Yvonne had been using her as an excuse to put the squeeze on Black Gate. Hull was one thing, but Yvonne didn’t know the whole story and she played way rougher. No wonder Derek was desperate.

Hull’s smile deepened. “Go wait in the bedroom, okay?”

Clearly, he had no intention of letting Susanna see Derek.

Derek and his precious “white moonlight” had enjoyed their little fairytale for years, but that woman had been searching for Lacey behind the scenes for ages. It wasn’t hard to guess why.

They’d been living it up, but still couldn’t leave Susanna and Lacey alone—always plotting against them.

Well then.

A little suffering was only fair.