The penthouse was quiet again. Stella walked over to Channing. Looking at his hands with blood dripping, she gently held his arm, “Let’s go back.”
After a while, Channing said, “Aren’t you going to ask me anything?”
“If you want to tell me, you would have said it long ago, but if you’re not willing to tell me, it’s pointless for me to ask.”
At this time, footsteps sound came from the hallway.
It was Vincent.
After he stopped, he took a few breaths, “No, what do you young people think nowadays, can’t you choose to fight on the ground floor, why does it have to be so high?”
Channing pursed his lips tightly and did not say anything.
Stella looked at Vincent, “It’s alright, let’s go.”
Vincent looked at Channing and then back at her. He lifted his eyebrows for a moment, as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end, he swallowed it back.
When they arrived downstairs, there was no sign of Jeffrey and Adolph around, not even the sound of a fight could be heard.
One of his men walked up to Vincent and whispered. The latter’s face changed slightly, but he just raised his hand, “Keep finding.”
“Yes.”
Vincent said to Stella, “I’ll give you a lift?”
Stella nodded, then remembered something, “My car is still parked over there ...”
“The key.”
Stella handed over the car key. Vincent took it and then threw it to the men behind him. He asked Stella for a detailed address.
Sitting in the car, Vincent looked through the rear-view mirror and asked, “Where do you want to go?”
Stella said, “The hospital.”
At this moment, Channing, who had been kept quiet for long, said, “Just simply find a place and drop me there.”
Stella ignored him and simply said, “Find the nearest hospital.”
“Okay.”
Twenty minutes later, the car stopped in front of a private hospital.
Channing frowned and when he was just about to refuse, Stella said, “I don’t want to talk to you anymore, go see the doctor first and get your wound treated, or else I’ll beat you.”
In the end, Channing entered the hospital in silence.
Stella followed him. After two steps of walking, she said to Vincent again, “Thank you for sending us here, I will settle the rest of the things on my own.”
“I’ll go first then?”
“Alright, goodbye.”
Vincent lifted his hand towards her, turned around and left.
Stella helped Channing to register. After he went to the consultation room of the hospital, she sat on the chair outside, pinched her brow and let out a breath.
After sitting for a while, she took out her mobile phone and dialled Adolph’s number.
However, it showed up as unreachable.
To avoid being traced, Adolph would often change his phone number. Most of the time, it was always him who contacted her.
Judging at the situation, she could only wait.
Stella felt a little bit tired. She leaned back in the chair behind her. When she was about to rest, there was steady footsteps sound coming from the corridor.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw the wretched man’s cold features.
Stella was stunned for a moment, “Aren’t you in a meeting, why are you here?”
Clarence sat next to her, “The meeting is over.”
He looked at Stella’s blood-stained cuffs and frowned.
Seeing this, Stella hurriedly said, “It’s not mine, it’s Chan’s.”
Clarence pursed his thin lips for a moment, holding her cold hand, “What does he mad at again?”
“Charles seems to have met with him. I don’t know what he had said, just ...”
“It’s obvious that he had said something bad.”
After a while, he said, “I can go and stay in a hotel.”
“Cannot.”
However, Stella could not think of where to let him stay for a moment, she was now staying with the Steward family so she did not know how to place him.
Clarence pulled open the car door and spoke indifferently, “Stay at my place.”
Stella was surprised, “Stay at your place?”
Clarence reached out his hand and flicked her forehead, “Why, I don’t have a house for him to stay?”
“No, I ...”
“Don’t worry, there are no restrictions on staying at my place except one rule, that is, if he runs around, I’ll break his legs.”
Stella suddenly felt that what he said made sense.
She immediately nodded, and then said to Channing, “You stay at his place then. When I’m not around, you have to listen to him.”
Channing frowned, “On what grounds?”
Clarence tapped his long fingers on the car window, “Because I’m your brother-in-law. Get in.”
Seeing that Channing was not moving, he added, “If you want to walk, you can do so. I will send someone to follow you and show you the way.”
As soon as Clarence’s words left his mouth, Nathan, who was waiting beside him, took a slight step forward and revealed an awkward but polite smile, as if to say that he was the passionate chaperone who would accompany him to walk.
Channing pursed his lips, took a breath, and finally compromised. He pulled open the car door and bent his body to get into the car.
Clarence looked at Stella, raised his eyebrows and inclined his head, “You can get in too.”
Stella pursed her lips and smiled as she passed by him.
Nathan also got back to the seat where he belonged and let out a sigh of relief. It was fortunate that he did not have to accompany him to walk.
Along the way, Nathan asked, “Mr. Conrad, where are we going now?”
Clarence looked at Stella, seemingly seeking her opinion. Stella said, “My car is with Vincent, just drop me off there.”
Clarence said indifferently, “Ask Vincent where is he now.”
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