Chapter 160
**Stephanie's Point of View**
His abrupt question was like a splitting whip that violently lashed my pride a humiliating, biting, and embarrassing question to the extent that the words and breath froze in my throat and refused to come out. I remained completely paralyzed under his suffocating entrapment, my eyes wide with terror, finding myself trying with bitter despair and haste to gather the remnants of my dignity that had been trampled under his feet, striving with all my power to reduce the scale of this horrific scandal and limit its ugliness.
My gaze met his stern features, which were masked in cruelty, and I said in a panting, raspy tone, on the verge of crying from the sheer intensity of the humiliation: "How... how dare you, for heaven's sake, search and dig through my personal phone in this vile and invasive manner?!"
