Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 325

Just then, the man chuckled softly. "Star, you're still as disobedient as ever."

And with that, he delivered a swift karate chop to the back of her neck.

Stella’s struggles ceased instantly, her vision fading into darkness as her strength drained away, leaving her completely limp.

Amidst the haze, she vaguely heard Ronald's furious shout, "Xander Schultz, how dare you!"

Xander spoke something into his walkie-talkie, and immediately, there was a loud 'bang.'

The glass shattered on cue. The entire Mist Bay erupted into a cacophony of gunfire.

Ronald, seething with anger, drew his gun in one swift motion, leveling it directly at Xander, who had Stella slung over his arm like a rag doll.

"Put her down," he commanded sternly.

But Xander didn’t flinch. Instead, he shifted Stella’s unconscious body in front of him like a shield. "Go ahead. Let’s see what’s tougher, your bullet or her body?"

A dangerous glint flickered in Ronald's eyes, his calm exterior barely masking the storm of fury roiling beneath.

Xander’s smug grin widened as he noticed the veins bulging on Ronald’s clenched hand. "What’s the matter? Forget that your old man promised her to me? I'm just here to collect my fiancée. What's wrong with that?"

"Let her go," Ronald gritted out, each word a testament to his anger.

Idris had his gun trained on Xander too, glancing at Ronald for direction.

Ronald, typically a sharpshooter, was stalled at the precipice of Stella’s life or death situation, his icy gaze like shards of glass.

Outside, chaos intensified.

Xander shot Ronald a mischievous smirk before tossing a smoke bomb. In the ensuing 'boom,' he whisked Stella away.

Ronald and Idris pursued them, but in the fog, they couldn't risk firing blindly.

And then a helicopter's drone hovered over Mist Bay.

Ronald’s fury reached its peak.

Harvey, the head of Mist Bay’s security, approached Ronald anxiously. "Sir."

Ronald kicked him hard.

"You didn’t notice a thing?"

Harvey, who'd always been Ronald’s trusted aide in Ferrowland, was caught off guard by Xander's stealthy infiltration.

Even Idris was taken aback. No one had expected Xander to show up in Portis City, let alone pull off such a brazen stunt.