The Wrong Girl and the Wronged Girl (Stella and Ethan) novel Chapter 881

“Yeah, I ran back,” Stella said.

Marie fell silent. Ran back... Well, that did sound like something Eddie would do.

He might seem loud and harmless most of the time, but if he was pushed too far, he’d do just about anything.

When Derrick heard Abraham upstairs, he glanced at Marie. “I’m going up.”

Men always had endless things to talk about.

Stella watched Derrick’s back as he went up the stairs, then turned to Marie. “He seems a lot calmer now, doesn’t he?”

Honestly, in Stella’s mind, Derrick and Eddie were practically cut from the same cloth. Sometimes the things that came out of their mouths were just... well, enough to make anyone’s head spin.

“Calmer?” Marie snorted. “You didn’t see how smug he looked in the car earlier.”

Stella blinked in surprise.

“Dan was about to lose his mind because of him,” Marie added.

Stella couldn’t help but laugh.

“Okay, fine,” she said between chuckles. “I take back what I said about him being calm.”

Calm? That word didn’t belong anywhere near Derrick. The man was as unreliable as they came; back when her brother was trying to hunt him down, even then, Derrick couldn’t explain himself clearly.

And now, with this whole situation involving Dan...

Marie looked at her, grabbing Stella’s soft hand. “Reese hasn’t tried anything with you yet, right?”

“Not yet. My people checked—Reese really is in Hamlin. And Mona’s been going there a lot too.”

Marie frowned. “Wait—you’re telling me she literally turned herself into your look-alike?”

Stella nodded. “When I first saw the photo, I thought it was me.”

Especially the figure—the body shape was almost identical.

“That doesn’t make sense,” Marie muttered.

“What do you mean?”

“But she’s so much shorter than you!”

Right, height! You could fix a face with surgery, but how were you supposed to fix that?

“Maybe she wants me dead,” Stella said quietly, “so she can show up afterward as my replacement.”

Not to switch places directly, but to step into her life as a stand-in.

Marie fell silent.

Damn... that actually made sense.

If something really happened to Stella during childbirth, Abraham would be devastated—probably lose his mind.

And if, right at that time, someone appeared with Stella’s exact face...

It wasn’t impossible that he’d let her stay in his life as a substitute.

Marie’s eyes narrowed dangerously. “Reese—I’m not letting her get away with this!”

“Of course not!” Marie snapped. If she were, would she have been kept away from the Tom family all these years? Reese was Mona’s illegitimate daughter, plain and simple.

Wait—what?

“Then what do you want to do?” Marie asked.

“Fight back,” Stella said.

“Fight back?”

Marie blinked. Was this girl finally turning ruthless? Good.

That was exactly what she needed—especially when people were scheming against her.

Catching the mischievous glint in Stella’s eyes, Marie’s rage started to fade.

She sank back down beside her. “You’ve thought of something fun, haven’t you?”

Stella smiled. “You want in?”

“Of course I do. Been wanting to for a long time.”

The kind of game she liked best was the one where her enemies ended up in total despair.

Stella leaned closer and took her hand. “Here’s how we’ll play it…”

Meanwhile, back in Falvaria, Marie threw herself completely into handling Stella’s affairs.

As for Dan—back when she was in Redwood, she’d been so ruthless toward him; now, she’d forgotten him just as completely.

But Dan was left utterly dumbfounded.