Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 991

“Wait, Yorick Quarry is the one who called you?” Stella Quinn asked.

“That’s right! The whole time he was telling me about it, I couldn’t shake the feeling there was something sneaky going on,” Susanna Tucker replied.

Stella paused, unable to find the words for a moment. “Just be careful how you handle this, okay? I don’t know why, but this whole thing just feels like a train wreck.”

“Ferrowland has always been a train wreck,” Stella said with a resigned sigh.

Susanna felt her heart sink a little at that. She remembered all those times back in Portis City when Stella would mention Ferrowland: always with a heavy sigh, always shaking her head in exasperation.

She could go full throttle at the Larkin family, she could freeze Yorick out in a heartbeat—but when Ferrowland came up, there was only this sense of helpless resignation.

As if the mess there had rotted so deep, you’d have to rip everything out to make a fresh start—and even then, who knew if it would work?

“My life feels like a mess these days too,” Susanna admitted. She thought about the differences between her and Stella’s worlds—how, back in Portis City, her own life had always been steady and peaceful.

Now it was as though chaos kept lining up at her door, each new problem stomping in before she’d even figured out the last one.

“Look, relax,” Stella said. “You’ve got Hull in your corner.”

“My mom just called.” The words tumbled out of Susanna before she could stop them. “She told me Derek Murray isn’t my father.”

There was a stunned silence on Stella’s end.

“Wait—what?” Stella finally managed.

“I don’t think she was just lashing out or anything,” Susanna went on. “She sounded serious, like she was spelling out the truth for me: Derek isn’t my father.”

Stella blinked, trying to process it. “Then who is your father?”

“I asked. She wouldn’t say. Just hung up,” Susanna said.

Another long pause followed.

“God, this is such a mess!” Susanna groaned, her energy draining.

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