Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 1073

Her mother wanted Black Gate.

Hull had been right all along.

When Lacey called again, Susanna wasted no time in telling her about Derek’s demand for a paternity test. The moment she finished, the phone went dead silent.

“Mom? Mom?” Susanna’s voice broke the uneasy pause.

At last, Lacey replied with grim certainty, “You’re in trouble.”

“What?”

“The test will show you’re his daughter. He’s never going to let you go now.”

Susanna was floored. “Wait—weren’t you the one who swore up and down that I wasn’t his daughter?”

Hadn't Lacey always insisted—no matter the resemblance—that Susanna was absolutely not Derek's child? That was the entire reason Susanna agreed to the test: to kill his suspicions for good. And now?

“I did say that, and I meant it. You aren’t his daughter.”

“Then whose daughter am I?”

“Mine, obviously!”

Susanna resisted the urge to scream. Of course she knew who her mother was—that wasn’t the question. “Mom, come on! I want to know who my father is.”

“Well, it’s definitely not Derek!”

“Then how on earth is a DNA test going to say otherwise?”

There was a pause—Lacey hesitating as if she, too, couldn’t make sense of it. Which was supposed to be more reliable, a lab result or a mother’s word?

“To be honest... this is kind of awkward to explain.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m telling you, there’s no way Derek is your father. He and I… we were never intimate.”

Susanna’s brain spun. Never slept together, but a DNA test would say he was the father? She might have been naïve as a kid, but she was no fool now. “Mom, what are you talking about?”

Was she suddenly the dense one here? How could she exist if there’d never been anything between them? Where did she even come from?

Lacey sighed. “Look, this isn’t easy to explain. Maybe you should just get out of Litamark.”

“What, you want me to run away?”

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