ログインGray said, “If it was a natural death, then why would her people take the baby away?”Stella fell silent.Why?Could it really be that Ruby had done something?That whole family...Stella closed her eyes briefly.Gray asked, “Do you want us to investigate?”“We do,” Stella said. “But don’t move on any hard evidence yet. Everything waits until after I divorce Evan.”This time, she did not want any more complications.Even if Evan eventually learned Summer’s true face, it did not need to happen before the divorce.And as for Summer...Stella’s goal had never been to expose her for Evan’s sake.It was much simpler than that.Summer had done too much to her.She deserved to pay for it.Gray nodded. “Understood.”He committed all of Stella’s instructions to memory, then added, “There’s one more thing.”“What is it?”“When the baby was at that villa, a man went there too.”“A man?” Stella frowned. “A doctor?”Gray shook his head. “He didn’t look like a doctor.”Stella we
Stella wanted half the assets.Dora had no intention of giving her that much.So with both sides locked in a standoff, the conversation naturally went nowhere.In the end, Dora was so furious that she simply hung up.Listening to the dead tone on the line, Stella let the corner of her mouth curl into a faint smile.A maid brought over the roasted fruit.Gray took the plate from the tray and set it in front of her.“Miss, why even bother with the Wright family’s money? It’s not much anyway.”Stella paused.Not much?Well...Compared to the Hogarth family’s wealth, what the Wright family had probably was not much at all. Arguing over it was hardly worth the effort.Only Dora treated it like something precious.But for Stella, it was different.“Every dollar counts,” she said lazily. “When I was poor, I learned one rule: if it’s mine, it stays mine.”If it was not hers, she did not want it.But if it was, she was not giving it up.Maybe it was because of how she had grown
At Mount Pansworth, Stella was in the middle of drinking soup.The kitchen had even cut different kinds of fruit for her.The moment she came back, both Gray and the maids who took care of her said she had lost weight while staying by Evan’s side.So from the afternoon on, she had been eating nonstop.Her phone sat on the dining table in front of her.From the speaker came Dora’s furious voice, full of abuse.“When you married into the Wright family, you had nothing. In all these years, you never even gave the Wright family a child.“You’ve contributed absolutely nothing to the company either. What gives you the right to half?”Half of Evan’s assets was no small amount.To put it bluntly, it would mean Stella jumping several social classes in one move.Stella calmly picked up a piece of meat.She liked it a lot, and the kitchen had stewed it until it was soft enough to fall apart.The soup was rich and fresh too.Faced with Dora’s hysteria, Stella answered lazily, “Because
Patrick stepped out.That left only the three of them in the office.Evan flicked a glance at Fiona.The look was enough to make her flinch.“Evan...” She forced herself to speak anyway. “Are you... are you going to sign it?”She tried hard to sound steady.That bitch Stella had actually been the one to ask for a divorce first. She really had some nerve.But at this point, with things already this bad, who cared who brought it up first?As long as the divorce went through, that was all that mattered.The moment Evan looked at her again, his gaze turned instantly dangerous.Fiona felt her chest tighten under it, like she could barely breathe.She did not dare say another word.“You,” Evan said coldly. “Get out.”Fiona froze.Dora started, “Evan, you...”“Get out.”He bit out the words through clenched teeth.In Evan’s eyes, the way things had deteriorated between Stella and Dora over the past two years was at least half Fiona’s fault.She had stirred things up again an
No matter how angry Dora got, Warner refused to let her in.When they threatened to fire her, she calmly said that unless her direct supervisor personally dismissed her and the company paid the required compensation, she would not be leaving.That only made Dora even angrier.For a second, she almost thought she was seeing things.Because in Warner, she could see the same defiant streak Stella had.In the end, after all her rage and frustration, Dora wound up waiting for Evan until six in the evening.He had been in meetings for hours without a break.When he finally came out of the conference room, exhaustion was written all over his face.Dora hurried forward.The moment Evan saw her and Fiona, his expression darkened even more.“What are you doing here?”At this point, Evan was irritated the second he saw anyone from the Wright family, even his own mother and sister.Dora snapped, “Forget that for now. Fire this woman first.”Thinking about Warner’s attitude and the thi
The Baggen City project had become a huge problem.After Evan entered the conference room, he did not come out again for hours.On top of that, the Port Yves project had already cost him heavily.And there was something even worse.Several projects that Hernandez Group had previously co invested in with Wright Group were now facing withdrawal too.Those projects were already halfway through.If Hernandez Group pulled all of its funding now, Wright Group would be left with a massive hole in its cash flow.Evan was furious and overwhelmed.By the time Dora and Fiona arrived, Evan was still inside the meeting.But Dora was in no mood to wait.In a burst of anger, she headed straight for the conference room, only to be stopped by Warner from the secretary’s office.“Madam, I’m sorry, but you can’t go in.”“I have urgent business,” Dora snapped.“But Mr. Wright is dealing with something urgent too,” Warner replied politely, though she clearly had no intention of letting Dora th
The voice in Dora’s head, the one that wanted to deal with Stella once and for all, grew louder by the second.“I told you back then that you shouldn’t marry her,” she snapped. “She grew up in an orphanage, no mother to teach her anything. What kind of upbringing could she possibly have? I never sh
Evan had originally planned to go see Stella that night.But Summer’s condition kept fluctuating, and he ended up staying by her side again and again. It was not until two in the morning that her state finally stabilized.Summer looked at Evan with guilt in her eyes.“Evan, I’m sorry. I keep putti
Stella drifted in and out of sleep when her phone rang.Seeing Lucas’s name on the screen, she answered groggily.“It’s the middle of the night. What do you want?”“Evan’s with us,” Lucas said.Stella paused. Her grip on the phone tightened, her voice cooling instantly.“So?”“He’s had a lot to
In everyone’s eyes, she was picking a fight she had no chance of winning.Stella thought for a moment, then said calmly, “Tomorrow, my marriage certificate with Evan and the divorce agreement will be all over Harbor City.”Jennifer froze.“…What?”“Wait,” she said, staring at her. “You’re saying







