He Gave Her Strawberries, Gave Me Hives (Ford and Sylvia) novel Chapter 99

as standing in the doorway and saw the exact moment Stella slapped Hazel.

His face darkened instantly. He strode in and shoved Stella away forcefully!

Stella, already weak, staggered back a few steps from his push, her back hitting the cold wall hard, causing her to grunt in pain.

“Stella! What are you doing!” Felix shielded Hazel behind him, his voice sharp, his eyes looking as if he wanted to

devour her whole.

Hazel immediately snuggled into his arms, crying beautifully, twisting the truth. “Felix… it’s not Mrs. Vance’s fault…

it was me… I shouldn’t have come…”

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Felix looked at the clear handprint on her face, his heart aching. When he turned back to Stella, the fire in his eyes

blazed even hotter. “Stella! I never knew you could be so vicious! Hazel came to see you out of the kindness of her heart, and you hit her?!”

Completely enraged, he gave a cold order to the bodyguards at the door. “Someone get in here and slap her! One hundred times! Pay her back tenfold for what she did to Hazel!”

Hazel made a show of stopping him. “No, Felix! Mrs. Vance just had a miscarriage, her body can’t take it.”

But Felix just held her tighter, his voice a mix of pity and rage. “You’re just too kind! That’s why she bullies you again and again! She has to be taught a lesson today! Do it!”

The bodyguards acknowledged the order and stepped forward, their large shadows falling over Stella.

Stella stared, thunderstruck, at the man she had loved for nine years, watching him carefully protect another woman, watching him be so cold and ruthless to her for that woman’s sake.

Once, he had protected her just like that!

In the instant before the bodyguard’s hand fell, she used her fast ounce of strength to cry out the deepest pain and resentment in her heart. “Felix! Do you remember?! What did you say when you knelt at my parents‘ grave?! You said you would always protect me, never let me suffer the slightest wrong! You said I was your life! Have you… have you forgotten all of that?!”

Felix’s body stiffened, his arm around Hazel tightening slightly.

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Deep in his eyes, some emotion seemed to churn violently, but in the end, it was all overshadowed by his concern

for Hazel.

He turned his head to look at her, his gaze cold, weary, and filled with a sense of finality.

“I remember.” He paused, each word a heavy hammer blow to Stella’s heart. “Stella, it’s true that I loved you.”

“But it’s also true that I don’t love you anymore.”

“Now, Hazel is the one I love most. You hurt her, and you have to pay the price!”

With that, he looked away from her despairing, empty eyes, held Hazel protectively, and turned to leave the room.

The heavy door shut, cutting off the sight of his retreating back and extinguishing the last ray of light in Stella’s life.

SMACK!

The first heavy slap landed on her face, stinging with a fiery pain.

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It was followed by a second, a third…

She stopped struggling, stopped questioning, like a broken doll, enduring the humiliating punishment.

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