Mr. Kane Got Blacklisted

Stella chuckled, “This necklace is so heavy; I doubt flushing it down the toilet would work.”

Keegan gritted his teeth and said, “How could you say that? You deliberately put it on the bedside to make me uncomfortable, right?”

Stella nodded unapologetically and replied with a smile, “I just wanted to see how long you could pretend.”

Keegan was at a loss for words.

Feigning anger, he said, “You have no sense of boundaries! How many times have you received gifts from him?”

“Not many. Just a necklace and a talisman.”

Keegan’s fake irritation turned into genuine annoyance. “What about the phone he gave you?”

Stella chuckled nervously upon hearing that. “It’s been too long; I forgot.” Then she justified herself. “Besides, it’s not like I accepted it for free. I gave him a tie in return. It cost me 6999 dollars. When I think about it, it feels like a loss. That phone wasn’t worth that much either.”

Keegan had a deadpan face at that point. “It cost you 7098; you missed ninetynine dollars.”

taken aback for a moment, then remembered the socks and burst into laughter. “How long are you going to

them for the rest of my life!”

at Stella and continued, “Have you secretly

I haven-” Stella stopped mid-sentence and said, “Before Thanksgiving, Marshall

green. “And you accepted

two boxes of egg tarts from Royle’s. Felicity liked them

remembered the two rabbit keychains that came with the pastry gift box. Felicity took one, and Stella hung

on her bag was

so she even

it have gone?’

much thought to the keychain. However, amid the argument with Keegan, she recalled that not only was the charm a

that the kidnapping might have been related

happened to be something he

between them?’ As Stella was in thought, someone lightly

head back and said, “Are