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Chapter 412
"You seem eager to have her dead." Stefan shot Renee a dirty glare, carrying Briar bridal-style and
laying her down at a resting area nearby.
Renee had almost died because of Briar's sudden outburst, and a panicked Stefan had no choice but
to hit Briar on the back of the neck to knock her out for a while. Renee might not have survived
otherwise.
Briar would probably be better after resting, so Stefan didn't try to wake her up. Instead, he turned to
Renee, who was still in the children's section, and pointed at the clothes on the ground. His eyes
narrowed as he asked, "Why are you buying so many children's clothes?"
Renee and the employee were busy putting the outfits on the ground back into her bags. She scoffed
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtdismissively, "Why do you care? Am I not allowed to buy cute things?"
Stefan squatted down and picked up one of the striped socks near him, observing it curiously. The sock
was pink, soft, and no bigger than his hand. He couldn't deny it was cute, and it softened his heart for
some reason.
"So you bought these socks... because they're cute?" Stefan asked dubiously as he handed them to
Renee.
However, the woman didn't want to play buddy-buddy with him, and shot him a disgusted look. "I did
think it was cute, yeah, but now you’ve dirtied it with your hands. I don't want it anymore."
"You!" Stefan was furious. 'What the hell? Didn't she say she hoped we could still be friends?! She was
acting so nonchalant before, but now she's acting like I'm some kind of curse! What's her problem?!'
"I just knocked Briar out just to save you, and this is how you thank me?!" Stefan wanted an
explanation for her behavior, so he blocked her way to question her. He scowled as he asked her,
"What have I done to piss you off this time?"
Renee felt her blood boil, and her eyes blazed in rage. "Do you really not know? Or are you just
pretending to be oblivious, Hunt? I couldn't tell before, but you and Desrosiers really are a family, aren't
you? Now that she's joined your family, she's just so eager to choke people too. You weren't able to
break my neck four years ago, so your girlfriend is doing it for you now. Why are you pretending to be a
good person?"
Honestly, four years was enough for her to let go of her miserable past, and move on from the man in
front of her. However, when Briar was choking her, painful flashbacks of Stefan doing the same played
in her head. His grip had been much stronger than Briar's, and Renee still remembered the feeling of
that near-death experience like it happened yesterday. Those upsetting memories had never left, and
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmremembering them had just made her pain resurface.
There was no way she could be entirely numb towards the situation.
Seeing how agitated the woman was, Stefan felt a little satisfied. 'She's finally not acting like an
emotionless statue. Her mood was affected...
because of me.'
Although she was upset with him, it proved to him that he still mattered to her in some way. It made his
dead, cold heart explode with passion once again.
"That's right, I'm not a good person! So hate me, yell at me, you can even hit me..." Stefan grabbed
Renee's hand all of a sudden, placing it on his chest. "If you're so angry with me, if you hate me that
much, then don’t hold back! There's no need to pretend you're doing fine on your own."
He just wanted to tell her that she could hate him and take her anger out on him as she liked, but he
couldn't bear it when she ignored him. He would rather them fight with each other than become
complete strangers
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