Chapter 517 Caught in the Act
Stella jumped in shock, and Abraham immediately let go of her. As she stumbled back, she nearly fell to the floor.
Abraham moved fast and caught her back into his arms. “Still so careless?”
Marie was standing at the doorway, covering her eyes and apologizing frantically. “Sorry, sorry, I didn’t mean to!”
Stella’s face was already blushing. She buried herself in Abraham’s arms and refused to come out.
Feeling her embarrassment, Abraham narrowed his eyes at Marie, voice cold. “Then why aren’t you gone yet?”
Marie stammered. “Oh–right, I’ll go now, I’m going, just… seriously, if you two wanna do that stuff, can’t you stay in your room? What, am I not supposed to have eyes?!”
She spun around, still covering her face–and immediately slammed into the wall.
“Ugh!” she groaned, the impact clear as a thud.
Just hearing the sound made Stella wince. It sounded painful.
She tried to pull away from Abraham to go check on her, but he held her tight against his chest.
“Marie might’ve fallen-”
“She’s fine. That’s normal for her.”
That was his sister…
But Abraham wasn’t wrong either. Marie basically lived on the training grounds.
A fall like that was nothing to her.
When she was actually training, she was either beating someone black and blue or getting the crap beaten out of her.
Even with her back turned, Marie could feel the sugar overload from their conversation. Gross. She quickly made her escape.
Still nestled in Abraham’s arms, Stella squirmed in protest. “Don’t do that next time.”
Her cheeks were visibly overheated.
Abraham chuckled. “Don’t do what?”
Stella replied, “When there are other people around.”
“There are people everywhere in this house.”
Stella: “.” You just can’t reason with this man.
Abraham had originally planned to stay and watch Stella try on wedding dresses. But then a call came in from Abel.
Whatever was said on the phone, it clearly wasn’t good–Abraham’s face turned cold and serious.
After he hung up, he hid the sharpness in his eyes and smiled gently at Stella. “Make sure you take lots of photos.”
“Okay.”
She nodded sweetly, not asking any questions.
Abraham helped her sit back down, placed a kiss on her forehead, and left without teasing her any further.
As he turned around, his eyes were laced with icy intensity.
Outside the door-
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Chapter 517 Caught in the Act
Marie had just picked up a call. She was originally heading back to her room, but Derrick’s number popped up.
“Should I come get you,” he said, “or are you coming to the civil affairs bureau yourself?”
This bastard can’t actually be serious, right?
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Sure, she’d wanted to mess with him a bit. Since he was always interfering with Stella and Abraham, she figured she’d screw with him right back–make it look like she was ready for a second marriage just to tick him off.
But now Derrick wouldn’t let it go…
And with a guy like him–conniving to the bone–Marie had to stay on high alert.
Fuming, she demanded, “Just be straight with me. How exactly are you planning to use me?”
She couldn’t help it. Dan had left her with serious psychological scars.
That jackass had lived rent–free in her heart for years, and now it turned out everything between them might’ve just been part of some setup.
That alone was hard enough to swallow.
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Derrick replied, “Use you? Weren’t you the one begging to marry me yesterday? And your big brother too-”
“Oh, screw off. Who begged to marry you? If I really did propose, would you even have the balls to say yes?”
Marie snapped, completely out of patience.
He had the nerve to say she was the one begging? Like he didn’t know why she’d said what she said?
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