Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 1078

He’d even considered giving Susanna a proper dressing down.

But… faced with her like this, he found himself helpless.

“Tell your mother she needs to get back to Litamark as soon as she can.”

Susanna just sighed. “Even if she comes back, it’s not like she’s going to take you back. You might want to brace yourself for that.”

Derek had already started to walk away but froze for a split second at her words. Then, without looking back, he kept going.

He was gone.

Barnaby and Silas followed him out, leaving Susanna alone with Hull.

Stepping out of his embrace, Susanna pressed a hand to her chest. “Oh my god, he really lost it back there.”

To her, Derek’s rant had been nothing but nonsense—a man unhinged. The way she saw it, the paternity tests with Adelle’s kids must have finally pushed him over the edge.

Hull ruffled her hair affectionately. “He’s not exactly holding it together. You love someone, keep them by your side for years… then suddenly learn none of the children are yours? Any man would lose it.”

“And just so you know—Ivanna and Leanne’s results came back too. Neither of them are his,” he added quietly.

“Are you kidding me?” Susanna blurted out. No wonder Derek nearly dragged her off to Blacktower the second he thought even one child was his.

She frowned. “Wait a sec—about Dan. Was the doctor who did the test his dad? Or is it that my dad is actually his dad?”

Hull stared at her in disbelief.

Dan was a sore spot. Since none of Adelle’s kids were Derek’s, Susanna had always suspected Derek might be infertile. But the results from the Blacktower test showed Dan was his. Susanna didn’t buy it at the time—she’d even joked that the doctor must’ve been the real father because who else could rig a paternity test with a room full of witnesses?

“If his dad and my dad are the same person, then my mom really had terrible taste in men,” Susanna concluded, only half joking.

Hull could only shake his head, barely suppressing a laugh at how quick her mind worked.

“Anyway, whatever. I’m not thinking about it anymore,” Susanna said with a sigh. “We’ll deal with it once my mom gets here.”

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