Harper, who was sitting on the yoga mat in the living room, wiped the sweat off her forehead with a towel and asked Taya, “Who is
he?”
Harper had never met Eric before, so naturally she didn’t know who he was. Taya explained, “He is Stella’s brother…”
Taya remembered that Stella had mentioned that Eric was her nominal brother, but they didn’t have any blood relation. Their relationship was quite complicated.
Harper looked Taya up and down, and a hint of nervousness appeared in her eyes, “Is Stella’s brother interested in you?”
It was late at night, and if Stella’s brother came to find Taya with the wrong intentions, it would not end well if it was known by Griffon.
Taya smiled and took the milk that the housekeeper brought. She handed it to Harper and replied, “Eric is Stella’s man, don’t think too much about it.”
Harper had just taken a sip of milk and almost choked herself. “What?” “Aren’t they siblings?”
After teasing Harper, laya laughed and walked out of the villa. “Dr. Sinclair, it’s so late now. Is there something you need from me?” Eric was smoking when he saw her come out. He put out his cigarette and threw it in the trash can. “Is Stella here with you?” Stella didn’t have many friends. The only ones she was close to were Taya and Harper.
Eric had been looking for her for almost half a month but couldn’t find her. He could only come to Taya and ask.
Taya shook her head. “No, she’s not here.”Eric’s handsome face was full of anxiety. “Do you know where she went?”
Taya looked puzzled and replied, “Stella went abroad for a seminar. Don’t you know?”
Eric’s expression changed, and his face turned pale. “The seminar ended a long time ago, but neither she nor Henry Brown came back.”
This caught Taya off guard. She didn’t know how to respond. She could only stare at Eric’s figure shaking in the dim streetlights.
Eric stood in front of Taya for a long time, but eventually didn’t say anything. He turned and walked away.
Taya looked at his receding figure and murmured, “Dr. Sinclair…” Eric opened the car door but stopped in his tracks without looking back…
Facing the moonlight and the cool spring breeze of May, he uttered with red eyes, “Do all you women like to seduce men, then choose to abandon them without hesitation?”
Taya wanted to explain to Eric on Stella’s behalf, but he got into his car, closed the door, and quickly drove away.
On the day Stella returned, Taya had just finished her medicine. Stella brought new medicine to her door, as if she had timed it perfectly.
Taya was sitting in the garden, arranging flowers in a vase and answering a phone call from Griffon in Washington when she heard Stella’s voice.
“Taya.”
She quickly turned around and saw Stella, wearing a red dress and looking seductive and charming, and stood up.
“Stella, you’re back?” Taya asked.
Stella smiled and walked over to Taya with a medicine box in her hand, shaking it twice. “I brought you medicine,” she said.
After Taya thanked her, she asked, “Have you met with Eric? He’s been looking for you everywhere.”
Stella’s happy expression faded as soon as she heard Eric’s name. “I don’t want to see him,” she responded. Taya didn’t ask why and just took the medicine box from her and placed it on the small garden table.
She had seen Stella and Eric being intimate on several occasions, but Stella didn’t seem happy. Clearly she was being forced into it.
There must be an indescribable past between them. Since Stella didn’t say anything, Taya didn’t pry, so as not to touch on someone else’s sore spot.
Stella didn’t explain much either and changed the subject. “After taking the medicine for half a month, you can try it out with Alpha Knight.”
From Taya’s phone on the table, which was in speaker mode, Griffon’ cold and indifferent voice came through. “What do you want to try?
Stella was taken aback. “M-Alpha Knight…” How did he appear on the phone?
Taya quickly picked up the phone and said into the receiver, “Let’s talk later. I’ll call you back.”
But before she could hang up, the man on the other end quickly responded, “Wait for me to come back, then we’ll try it.”
Stella chuckled, “I’ll wait for you both to test it out before I give you a new prescription.”
Taya blushed and quickly hung up the phone. Just then, Harper, who was lying on the terrace, shouted, “What are you testing? I
want to try too!”
Stella couldn’t hold back her laughter anymore, and her grin was brighter than the sun in the blue sky.
Eric, who was standing by the white fence, saw Stella’s smile, and his cold expression softened slightly.
Taya’s hand was on her forehead while she felt speechless. She happened to see Eric outside the villa, and pushed Stella gently. “What?”
Stella followed Taya’s gaze towards the fence and saw the handsome figure. Her smile froze on her face.
After a moment of thought, she stood up and muttered to Taya, “I’m going out to see him. Let’s chat later.”
Stella walked out of the villa quickly and approached Eric with a forced smile on her cold face.
Eric saw the smile on Stella’s face and felt like something had just stabbed his heart. “I only found out today that you’ve been fake smiling all this time,” he said.
He had never seen such a sincere and natural smile from her before. She had always been using that false smile to deceive him.
Eric approached Stella, pressed her against the fence, and asked, “Were you getting close to me and seducing me just to get revenge?”
Stella clenched her fists and shook her head, smiling, “I got close to you because I love you. How could I be trying to get revenge?”
Eric sneered, “If you love me, then why did you go on a trip with Henry after the seminar ended?”
Stella raised her hands and h ooked her arms around his neck,
smiling. “Are you jealous?”
He was supposed to respond with his usual remark, “How could I be jealous for a lowly woman like you?”
But instead, he became furious all of a sudden like a madman. He grabbed her face and lifted her up to his eyes, gritting his teeth as he roared, “Yes, I’m jealous! I went crazy looking for you for half a month, yet you went on a trip with another man!”
“Do you know what I’ve been doing for the past two weeks?” he continued.
“I’ve been begging the Sinclair pack to let me mate you, yet you…”
He didn’t finish the rest of his sentence, but his deep and distinct black eyes suddenly turned red.
He had placed this woman in his heart, but in her eyes, he was no longer there… Perhaps, she had never had him in her eyes, and everything was just fake.
Stella watched Eric gradually lose control, and the coldness in her eyes became more and more apparent. So, did they agree for you to mate me?”
Eric didn’t answer her question. He just asked with red eyes, “Stella, how far have you and Henry’s relationship developed?”
Stella broke free from the big hand that was holding her, and spoke coldly, “I am ready to accept him…”
When Eric heard this, his heart became dull and painful instantly, making it difficult to breathe. But a cold smile appeared on his face.
“Did you forget that you are my woman?”
He grabbed Stella’s waist and held her tightly in his arms, then. lowered his head and bit her lips.
He punished Stella, who didn’t obey him with full force, but was pushed away by her.