Just as Stella opened the door a crack, a hand shot past her and slammed it shut.
Leonard grabbed her wrist. “Stella, just listen to me.”
“Don’t touch me!”
His touch made her skin crawl. Stella instinctively raised her hand and slapped him hard across the face.
The room was so quiet that the slap echoed loudly, making her own hand sting.
The pain jolted Stella back to her senses.
Getting into a direct confrontation and angering Leonard right now was extremely unwise.
Given her current position at The Williams Group, Leonard couldn’t threaten her with weapons like he used to.
Perhaps that was why he was trying a different tactic.
With that thought, Stella gradually calmed herself down.
However, just as she managed to compose herself, Leonard’s next words nearly made her lose her composure all over again.
“Feel better now? Want to hit me a few more times?”
Stella was speechless.
Whether it was performing on stage or working this past year, Stella thought she had seen a wide variety of people.
But she had never encountered anyone like Leonard.
She had previously categorized him as a psycho, but now, in her mind, he had been moved directly into the pervert category.
She had never dealt with a pervert before and had no idea how to handle the situation.
Should she try not to anger him and play along with his conversation, or should she focus on placating him?
However, Stella had no desire to know why Leonard thought he “liked” her, much less discuss such a topic with him.
It felt like a cold, venomous snake had coiled around her—nauseating and terrifying.

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The same rotation blaming Stella trying to get her destroyed. Isn't the writer tired of writing the same foolishness overand over again? This is exhausting....
Can’t wait to see what joshua will do...
Why would the author of this book do that to Stella? Such cruelty!...
So many chapters are incomplete. Missing pages. Hard to get continuity...
Please move on from Stella's troubles, we need more exiting news. Like Joshua discovering that Stella is the one he has been looking for,the owner of the earring....
Seriously, how long will this get stretched ?? Looks like the whole world is set to trouble Stella... It's not moving anywhere.....
Hey...please update regularly...
Is Jasper gay? He certainly behaves that way....