Chapter 986

Stella appeared calm and composed, but her back was soaked with cold sweat. 

“Mom?” she asked while resolutely putting on a calm facade, perhaps because she was hiding something.” What‘s wrong?” 

“Nothing...” answered Wendy with a shake of her head. Stella‘s voice brought her senses back. 

Sure that Stella must‘ve not known about how poisonous the oleanders were, she tried to warn her. 

“That plant over there...” 

Crash! 

Before she could finish, a loud noise coming from the window interrupted her. 

The two women jumped in fright. They hurried to where the noise came from and saw a black figure crashing into the room from outside. The window had been broken in, and the floor was littered with shards of shattered glass “Careful!” 

Stella‘s split–second response managed to stop Wendy from getting hit by the flying glass. 

Wendy was so spooked that her face turned white as a 

lying on the floor. “What... What on earth is going on here...?” she asked in

hole in the windowpane that brought a biting chill

out for the bodyguards. “I think he‘s one of the workers outside,” she told Wendy, trying to calm her down.

uniform while holding a wrench, so she assumed

she asked

groaned before answering.“ I‘m...

up, revealing his

was installing an overhead unit when I slipped and fell. I was only hanging on a steel wire, and I had no choice but to break the

still bloodstains on his face from being cut by the glass. He picked up his peaked

she said, but before she could continue, she had to

man was swaying slightly as he stood, so she asked in

his hands, still looking

in through the window like that. I‘m really

“You were here for repairs. Accidents happen. Make sure you don‘t slip again, and be

more careful...”

glancing at her several times, but he didn‘t dare to look at her directly.

, the hands that he kept behind

was already resting on the sofa as they waited

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