Cross My Tigress Face the Wrath (Stella) novel Chapter 442

She couldn't believe Yorick had the audacity to show up at her doorstep. If he was brazen enough to park his car like this, he must have known Ronald was out.

Was he really here to confront her? It seemed the Quarry family wasn't as deep in trouble as she had hoped.

But Stella was wrong.

Yorick was here precisely because the Quarry family was drowning in chaos, and he was on the brink of a breakdown.

He flicked away his cigarette and walked toward her, his steps deliberate and heavy.

Stella frowned, clearly irritated.

When he stopped a meter away, she could finally see the turmoil in his eyes—emptiness, sorrow, pain—all swirling together, visible in the depths of Yorick's gaze.

"Are you here to plead for Ursula?" Stella asked, squinting slightly.

The only reason she could think of for such a mix of emotions in Yorick's eyes was Ursula. Despite all the gossip Susanna and Tegan had shared about the Larkin family, Stella believed Yorick and Cloudia's bias toward Ursula would always prevail.

The mention of pleading for Ursula seemed to deepen the pain in Yorick's eyes.

"Plead?" he echoed, his voice laced with anguish.

Stella raised an eyebrow. "Not pleading? Then you're here to threaten me? To try and overpower me?"

She recalled how the Larkin family and Yorick had never resorted to pleading. They had always tried to overpower her into letting Ursula go.

How many tactics had they used back then? She couldn't help but scoff at the memory.

Yorick was silent, his chest heaving with a suffocating tension at Stella's mention of 'threaten' and 'overpower.' He closed his eyes, his whole body trembling. Clenching his fists, he spoke with difficulty, "I've… I've broken it off with her."