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.”

moment, then remembered the socks and burst

them for the rest of my

at Stella and continued, “Have you secretly accepted

and said, “Before Thanksgiving,

face turned green. “And you accepted

of egg tarts from Royle’s. Felicity liked them a lot,

rabbit keychains that came with the pastry gift box. Felicity took

items, but the rabbit keychain on her bag was gone. The police claimed they did not see it, but she had securely fastened it

so she even added a sturdy iron

have gone?’

Keegan, she recalled that not only was the charm a present from the egg tart gift box, but it was also

she suspected that the kidnapping might have been related to

to be something

connection between them?’ As Stella was in

and said, “Are you a dog? Why are you