The penthouse was quiet again. Stella walked over to Channing. Looking at his hands with blood
dripping, she gently held his arm, “Let’s go back.”
After a while, Channing said, “Aren’t you going to ask me anything?”
“If you want to tell me, you would have said it long ago, but if you’re not willing to tell me, it’s pointless
for me to ask.”
At this time, footsteps sound came from the hallway.
It was Vincent.
After he stopped, he took a few breaths, “No, what do you young people think nowadays, can’t you
choose to fight on the ground floor, why does it have to be so high?”
Channing pursed his lips tightly and did not say anything.
Stella looked at Vincent, “It’s alright, let’s go.”
Vincent looked at Channing and then back at her. He lifted his eyebrows for a moment, as if he wanted
to ask something, but in the end, he swallowed it back.
When they arrived downstairs, there was no sign of Jeffrey and Adolph around, not even the sound of a
fight could be heard.
One of his men walked up to Vincent and whispered. The latter’s face changed slightly, but he just
raised his hand, “Keep finding.”
“Yes.”
Vincent said to Stella, “I’ll give you a lift?”
Stella nodded, then remembered something, “My car is still parked over there ...”
“The key.”
Stella handed over the car key. Vincent took it and then threw it to the men behind him. He asked Stella
for a detailed address.
Sitting in the car, Vincent looked through the rear-view mirror and asked, “Where do you want to go?”
Stella said, “The hospital.”
At this moment, Channing, who had been kept quiet for long, said, “Just simply find a place and drop
me there.”
Stella ignored him and simply said, “Find the nearest hospital.”
“Okay.”
Twenty minutes later, the car stopped in front of a private hospital.
Channing frowned and when he was just about to refuse, Stella said, “I don’t want to talk to you
anymore, go see the doctor first and get your wound treated, or else I’ll beat you.”
In the end, Channing entered the hospital in silence.
Stella followed him. After two steps of walking, she said to Vincent again, “Thank you for sending us
here, I will settle the rest of the things on my own.”
“I’ll go first then?”
“Alright, goodbye.”
Vincent lifted his hand towards her, turned around and left.
Stella helped Channing to register. After he went to the consultation room of the hospital, she sat on
the chair outside, pinched her brow and let out a breath.
After sitting for a while, she took out her mobile phone and dialled Adolph’s number.
However, it showed up as unreachable.
To avoid being traced, Adolph would often change his phone number. Most of the time, it was always
him who contacted her.
Judging at the situation, she could only wait.
Stella felt a little bit tired. She leaned back in the chair behind her. When she was about to rest, there
was steady footsteps sound coming from the corridor.
She slowly opened her eyes and saw the wretched man’s cold features.
Stella was stunned for a moment, “Aren’t you in a meeting, why are you here?”
Clarence sat next to her, “The meeting is over.”
He looked at Stella’s blood-stained cuffs and frowned.
Seeing this, Stella hurriedly said, “It’s not mine, it’s Chan’s.”
Clarence pursed his thin lips for a moment, holding her cold hand, “What does he mad at again?”
“Charles seems to have met with him. I don’t know what he had said, just ...”
“It’s obvious that he had said something bad.”
Stella drooped her head, “Actually, I’m the one who shall be blamed for this matter. If I had given Chan
a clear explanation earlier, the incident would not have happened today.”
Clarence said indifferently, “You always like to take the blame on yourself, there are so many people in
this world, you can’t take care of every single one.”
Stella could not help but frowned, “I don’t care about other people in this world, but he is my brother, so
I have to care about him.”
“If you have the spare time to care about your brother, why don’t you have the spare time to care about
your husband?”
Stella was speechless.
The bastard started talking nonsense after saying two decent sentences.
She pulled her hand out, “I don’t have a husband, who do I need to care about?”
“If you want to have one, go get a marriage license tomorrow and you’ll have the perfect husband.”
“Thanks, I don’t want to.”
Stella felt that the breath that had been lingering in her chest and blocking her chest had instantly
subsided after talking two or three sentences with the wretched man.
Just then, the door of the consultation room was opened and Channing came out from inside.
His wounds had already been bandaged, but he still looked helter-skelter.
Stella and Clarence got up one after the other. She said, “What did the doctor say?”
“I’m fine.”
“Then ...”
Clarence’s faint voice came, “If he hurts badly, he’ll lie down long ago. How can he still be able to
walk?”
Stella swallowed the words that came to her mouth as that was true.
After they came out of the hospital, Channing said, “I have to go.”
“Wait.” Stella called out to him, “Where are you planning to go?”
“Back to school.”
Stella said, “You can go back after you’ve recovered, it has no difference on whether you go back today
or tomorrow. If you go back like this, how are you going to explain to your classmates and teachers?”
Channing knew that she still worried about him and was afraid that he would go back to find Jeffrey.
After a while, he said, “I can go and stay in a hotel.”
“Cannot.”
However, Stella could not think of where to let him stay for a moment, she was now staying with the
Steward family so she did not know how to place him.
Clarence pulled open the car door and spoke indifferently, “Stay at my place.”
Stella was surprised, “Stay at your place?”
Clarence reached out his hand and flicked her forehead, “Why, I don’t have a house for him to stay?”
“No, I ...”
“Don’t worry, there are no restrictions on staying at my place except one rule, that is, if he runs around,
I’ll break his legs.”
Stella suddenly felt that what he said made sense.
She immediately nodded, and then said to Channing, “You stay at his place then. When I’m not around,
you have to listen to him.”
Channing frowned, “On what grounds?”
Clarence tapped his long fingers on the car window, “Because I’m your brother-in-law. Get in.”
Seeing that Channing was not moving, he added, “If you want to walk, you can do so. I will send
someone to follow you and show you the way.”
As soon as Clarence’s words left his mouth, Nathan, who was waiting beside him, took a slight step
forward and revealed an awkward but polite smile, as if to say that he was the passionate chaperone
who would accompany him to walk.
Channing pursed his lips, took a breath, and finally compromised. He pulled open the car door and
bent his body to get into the car.
Clarence looked at Stella, raised his eyebrows and inclined his head, “You can get in too.”
Stella pursed her lips and smiled as she passed by him.
Nathan also got back to the seat where he belonged and let out a sigh of relief. It was fortunate that he
did not have to accompany him to walk.
Along the way, Nathan asked, “Mr. Conrad, where are we going now?”
Clarence looked at Stella, seemingly seeking her opinion. Stella said, “My car is with Vincent, just drop
me off there.”
Clarence said indifferently, “Ask Vincent where is he now.”
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