Shadows Between Us (Stella and Sebastian) novel Chapter 54

Chapter 54

“Do you like that plot in the South District?” Stella asked, lazily popping her chin up with one hand, her eyes calm and detached, as if she had no clue how outrageous her words sounded.

John was stunned. He trusted Stella’s skills as a doctor, but asking for a plot of land as payment was another matter altogether. It felt like she was going too far.

This was no ordinary plot of land. It sat in the South District, where every inch was worth its weight in gold. Apartments in the area sold for over a thousand dollars per square foot.

For years, the city government had held on to two prime parcels in the South District, refusing to release them, while every major player in Haliville’s business world watched closely, waiting for an opening. That land was pure gold.

g unconcerned.

“How about I give it to you?” Stella offered as she yawned, her eyes rimmed with sleepiness, looking

Sebastian stayed silent, his gaze cool and distant. His face was deathly pale, almost sickly, but there was something hauntingly attractive about him. No matter the angle, he was flawless.

John was left speechless. He thought, ‘One has the nerve to make the offer, and the other has the nerve to accept it’

Suddenly, Emily burst out of the hospital’s revolving doors and rushed straight to the Maybach. Her once-spotless white coat was now splattered with blood, her face ghostly pale as she pounded on the car window. The window slid down.

“I told you already,” Stella said coldly.

Stella did not move an inch. Emily was left speechless, her face burning with shame. This was not the reminder. Stella had warned them twice already.

Once was a mistake, twice was a warning, and three times was asking for trouble. Emily thought that if she had been in Stella’s shoes, she would have been furious as well.

Now, Stella was the one left to clean up their mess. But Paul’s condition couldn’t be put off any longer.

“Stella, please, save my grandfather,” Callum, pale as death, suddenly appeared behind Emily and shouted, his hands and clothes covered in blood. He looked at Stella in the car like she was his last lifeline.

All that earlier confidence, telling her to leave, had vanished. Seeing Stella unmoved, Callum lowered his gaze, lips pressed tight, about to beg her.

But before Callum did that, a foot in a white sneaker lazily blocked his way. Callum looked up in shock, only to see Stella standing outside the car, her gaze icy as she looked down at him.

Out in the hallway, Richard and Sophia, who had been swaggering and haggling with Caleb only moments earlier, were now struck silent, as though their tongues had been cut out.

Through a crack in the door, they had seen Paul coughing up blood, and the sight scared the living daylights out of them.

“Sophia, are we in trouble?” Richard asked. Ever the coward, he already had one foot out the door.

Sophia looked panicked and asked, “Ryan, what should we do?”

She’d gotten used to relying on her genius great-grandson to fix things whenever trouble hit. But no matter how smart Ryan was, he was still just five years old.

As Sophia, Ryan, and Richard, nerves on edge, were being escorted to the lounge, the elevator doors slid open.

Stella stepped out, hands in her pockets, cool and aloof, with Emily and Callum trailing behind her. She pushed open the

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door to the ward with the swagger of a boss.

Paul was still fighting for his life. Blood kept pouring from his mouth, his vitals crashing fast. The doctors crowded around him, helpless, not knowing what to do.

“Move aside,” Stella said coldly behind the doctors. They scrambled out of the way before they even realized it.

Landen’s face lit up with joy the moment he saw Stella walk in.

Samuel wasted no time and kicked everyone out of the room except Emily. Stella strode over to the bed, her eyes cool and sharp as she looked Paul over.

“Hand me the needles,” Stella said, reaching out. No one moved for a moment, so she shot Callum an impatient look.

“Your grandfather’s silver needles,” she said. Callum blinked. If Stella didn’t look so serious, he’d have thought she was throwing shade.

“I see,” Callum muttered.

“I’ve got them,” Samuel said and cleared his throat. He’d brought Paul’s favorite acupuncture needles, never expecting they’d come in handy.

Without even looking at the case, Stella picked up five silver needles. She flicked them lightly, and the needles, so thin that they seemed almost weightless, stood perfectly upright as she placed them down.

The crowd fell silent. Samuel’s jaw dropped. He couldn’t believe there were still young people capable of acupuncture at that

level.

Before anyone could even blink, Stella, stone-faced, inserted all five needles into the top of Paul’s head in one smooth motion. Everyone was stunned.

Everyone knew that part of the body was supposed to be the hardest, yet Stella inserted the needles as if it were nothing.

The shock had not even worn off when she said coolly that she was done. Everyone stared in disbelief, unable to comprehend what she meant.

As if to clear up everyone’s confusion, the medical monitor that had been screaming alarms moments ago suddenly went quiet. All the numbers jumped back to normal, and even the blood that had been pouring from Paul’s mouth stopped cold.

Caleb gawked and said, “Seriously? Just like that?” It hadn’t even taken thirty seconds, which made all that panic completely

unnecessary.

Stella shot Callum a half-smirk and added, “Even with all the answers laid out, you still managed to mess it up. That’s just dumb.”

Callum was speechless. Honestly, he did feel pretty dumb, as if he’d just been through a nightmare.

“Why couldn’t we use the Vitalis Pill?” Landen blurted out.

Now that he was sure his old friend was out of danger, Landen, the legendary medicine fanatic, couldn’t hold back his curiosity. He was dying to know the answer.

Stella said, “The Vitalis Pill amplifies energy to its peak. Paul was drugged and his hands disabled by some external force. His energy was already surging, like a pressure cooker about to explode.

“Giving him that pill now would be like pouring gasoline on a fire. You might as well have wanted him dead.”

Her words were so cold that everyone in the room felt a chill run down their spines.

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“Damn bastard!” Victor shouted as he slammed his hand on the table, furious.

All these years, Paul had doted on his top student like his own son, and now he was betrayed so cruelly that even his life hung by a thread.

Victor wanted to grab that bastard and demand to know what Paul had ever done to him.

“And one more thing.” Stella said, her eyes flashing with a cold glint. Everyone turned to her instinctively, hanging on her every word.

“You’d better track down that missing Vitalis Pill ASAP before it causes more trouble,” Stella warned.

“Wait, are you saying the Gray family…” Caleb blurted out, his voice rising in shock. Stella shot him a look, and Caleb instantly felt a chill run down his spine.

“What Ms. Carter means is that the Vitalis Pill has probably already fallen into the hands of Tongalian. With the International Traditional Medicine Summit coming up in half a month, things could get a whole lot messier,” Nathan said, his tone heavy with concern.

The Trent family had to turn the whole place upside down and get to the bottom of this. If that Vitalis Pill ended up as someone else’s trophy at the International Traditional Medicine Summit in half a month, the Trent family would be disgraced.

“Ms. Carter, you said you could fix his hands with surgery earlier. Is that still on the table?” Samuel asked, his eyes blazing with anticipation as he stared at her.

His question made everyone freeze, holding their breath. After what they’d witnessed, nobody dared doubt her anymore. Stella nodded without missing a beat, her voice lazy and unbothered.

She tilted her head and glanced at Caleb before she said, “I can do the surgery, but the price has doubled.”

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