Chapter 891
Felix’s chest tightened at the word using.
“Using you?”
“Am I wrong?”
Felix said nothing.
“What are you after in the Black Sea?” Stella asked. “Does it have something to do with the Hogarth family?”
Her voice turned even colder when she mentioned the Hogarths.
“But I’m afraid you’ll be disappointed. I’m not nearly as important to the Hogarth family as you seem to think.”
If she truly mattered to them, Aaron would never have treated her this way over Summer.
She finally understood how family ties measured up against their personal interest.
And she hated everything about it.
“Stella.”
“Summer is dead now. The only thing standing between us is gone. There’s nothing else left, and I don’t want there to be.”
Perhaps she really had fallen for Felix once.
But whatever feelings she had were now completely frozen over.
“Then tell me,” Stella said. “Why are you taking me to the Black Sea?”
Everyone knew what kind of place it was.
Why would Felix insist on bringing her there?
“I don’t feel safe leaving you here.”
Stella gave a cold laugh.
“This is my home. Are you saying I’m in more danger here than I would be with you?”
“Stella…”
“Felix, you no longer have the right to worry about my safety.”
That was how cold Stella had become toward him.
There was no warmth left in her at all.
Just as she had once treated Evan.
Once someone lost her trust, everything she did afterward was meant to create distance, never closeness.
Felix fell silent.
The words no right landed heavily in his chest.
“You said Summer’s half–sister wasn’t some great lost love of yours,” Stella continued. “Then why did you
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protect Summer so fiercely?”
After thinking it over, she asked anyway.
Because this was Felix.
Back in Harbor City, he had always stood on her side.
But the moment they came to Eirden, everything changed.
Summer had always been a thorn in Stella’s heart.
Felix had not accused her over Summer’s death today, but he clearly believed she was responsible.
And now he wanted to take her to the Black Sea.
Whatever trust remained between them had already fallen to its lowest point.
Felix said nothing.
The moment Stella asked for the real reason, a trace of restraint passed through his dark eyes.
She gave a mocking laugh.
“So she wasn’t your great lost love, but you can’t even give me a real reason?”
Some things had to be said aloud. Even if the other person refused to believe you, silence only made everything
worse.
That approach had failed Stella repeatedly with Evan.
But Felix’s refusal to explain still infuriated her.
“No matter what, you’re coming to the Black Sea with me tomorrow.”
Some things could not be revealed.
The situation was already complicated enough.
Explaining it would only make everything worse.
Felix wanted Stella’s world to remain as simple as possible.
She had always wanted a quiet life.
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