Love At The Next Stop Novel

Chapter 19 It’s Because You’re Here That I’m Afraid

I’ve got to keep my distance from him in the future. Since he doesn’t allow me to participate in this project, I’ll just forget about it. If I have too much interaction with him, it’ll make me look as though I’m coming on to him instead. Unexpectedly, as soon as Stella returned to her seat, someone came looking for her. Surprisingly, it was Ximena. She just has to pester me endlessly! It seemed as though there was going to be a show.

“Mrs. Levitt.” Ximena greeted her with her arms crossed.

In the meantime, Stella merely sat at her seat without saying anything, pretending to be focused on reading a document.

“Yesterday, Mr. Levitt came to my place again. He told me that you’re wanton and cheated on him,” Ximena said loudly. When the others heard such gossip, the entire office swung their gazes over with bated breath.

Still, Stella remained silent. Ximena was a supermodel, so she was very tall, especially when she was now wearing a pair of ten-inch high heels that were pointed and thin. As Stella sat there, she surreptitiously stared at the pair of high heels out of her peripheral vision. How does she even walk in those shoes?

“You don’t need me to name the man, do you, Mrs. Levitt?” Ximena wore a smug expression on her face.

from her chair. “Stop this slander! I stayed at the hotel alone yesterday,

wasn’t big, so everyone was working in the same open space. She’d heard about the magnificence

Miles

moment Stella heard that Ximena wanted to announce Miles’ name, she panicked and instinctively pushed

and tottered on her

that, Stella glanced at her hand, surprised that Ximena had taken a tumble when she didn’t even exert any force. It’s glaringly obvious that she came to make trouble! However, something even more surprising was yet to come. Blood gushed out from between Ximena’s legs, upon

Mrs. Levitt!”

at a loss for words. I knew this was a trap, but I’ve already fallen into it. Besides, everyone is now looking at me, so what should I

ambulance,

of his office, seemingly on his way out. When he saw the commotion, he strode over with a frown and

It truly wasn’t me. I merely pushed her lightly, but she fell down.” Stella seemed to have no outlet to air