Chapter 372 She Doesn’t Owe You Anything
Ever since Derrick had started making moves in the dark. Abraham had grown increasingly wary of leaving Stella alone.
Even his most trusted aides couldn’t completely reassure him.
But Stella was so exhausted from all the running around lately that she flatly refused to go with him. She went straight to bed right after lunch..
“Star.”
Abraham tried to coax her, gently trying to get her out of bed and start the day.
Half asleep, Stella mumbled and crawled deeper under the covers. “Don’t touch me. I’m really tired.”
Her voice was soft and sleepy.
Right now I just want to sleep. I had no intention of getting out of bed.
Abraham sighed. “You stubborn girl.”
With no choice, he left.
Before he left, he gave firm instructions to the head of security. “Make sure the place is tightly guarded. No one gets in.”
“Yes, sir.” Jacob replied with a nod.
After the incident with Owen, Abraham had replaced the entire staff, inside and out.
Jacob had been transferred from Falvaria.
Only after giving detailed orders did Abraham finally leave.
Eddic followed. “You don’t have to be so tense. Derrick is still stuck on Kealis Island.”
Abraham let out a cold chuckle. “You all thought he was on Pagena too, didn’t you?”
Yet somehow he’d managed to sneak into Rivermount completely unnoticed.
Eddie fell silent.
Derrick’s feelings for Stella were no joke. Once he returned to Falvaria, things were likely to get even messier
With Abraham gone, Stella was the only one left in Seaflats Cove. She slept like a log and didn’t wake up until four in the afternoon.
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As soon as she sat down on the couch, a maid rushed over with a blanket to cover her.
“Thank you,” Stella said quietly.
Just then, the landline phone nearby rang.
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The butler answered it. No one knew what was said on the other end, but his brow furrowed as he looked at Stella.
Then his voice sharpened. “Madam Susan, it looks like you still haven’t learned your lesson. You even dared to bother Ms. Dawson again.”
No matter what Susan said, she hadn’t been able to get through to Stella’s phone for a while now.
No one knew what trick she used to find the Seaflats Cove landline.
But she actually had the nerve to call her directly..
Over the phone, Susan said, “Let her take the call. I just want to say a few words.”
The butler replied coldly. “You have nothing to do with her. You shouldn’t call here.”
And with that, he hung up.
Stella looked at her phone. “Madam Susan?”
The butler nodded. “Yes.”
Stella said, “Call the provider. I want a new number.”
Her voice was cold and emotionless.
This was Stella now. She would not give the Reeds a chance, not even the slightest contact.
The butler understood. “I’ll take care of it right away.”
Stella played through her phone in her hand.
Since I had changed my number, my phone had been much quieter.
The Reed family already knew that I had been raised by the Luke family.
And based on what I had learned about them over the past two years, the entire Reed family was probably trying to find a way to profit from me.
Ha. Now they realized that I was a gold mine.
Too bad.
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Back at the Reed residence, Susan sat stone–faced, clutching the now disconnected phone.
Rebecca lounged nearby, cracking sunflower seeds one by one. The repetitive crunching was driving Susan crazy.
Not being able to reach Stella, not even to say a word, had her on the verge of losing it.
This is my own daughter. Why is it so hard just to see her?
Rebecca muttered, “We’ve come this far, and you still won’t face it? The evidence was there from the beginning.”
I meant the car accident.
From the way Lillian had acted earlier, it was obvious that she was the one behind this.
But now, just because Lillian had fainted, Susan was making excuses again?
Even if she didn’t say it out loud, I could guess what Susan was thinking.
She is still trying to protect Lillian.
Susan closed her eyes in frustration, then walked over to Rebecca. “Give me the money that Jonathan sent you.”
Rebecca blinked. “What?”
She spat out the seed in her mouth and rolled her eyes.
“What did you just say?”
Susan repeated, “Give me back the money Jonathan sent you. Every cent. Do you hear me? This is our family’s money. You have not qualified to take it.”
Just the thought of this woman taking all of her son’s money made Susan angry.
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Rebecca threw the rest of the sunflower seed shells on the floor. “I’m not qualified? And you are? Lillian Reed is?”
Susan snapped. “You don’t get to decide who’s qualified. Give me the money,”
Money again. That was always her bottom line,
Susan’s eyes burned with rage as she glared at Rebecca, nothing but disgust and anger in her gaze.
Rebecca laughed sarcastically. This is ridiculous.”
Damn it.
l’hy am I still wasting my time here?
These people will never get a grip on reality.
“Once the money’s in my pocket, it’s not coming out. As for this family…”
Speaking of the Reeds, Rebecca took a deep breath
“Say whatever you want. Even if you had the power, it wouldn’t be over me.”
Who gave her that power?
Whoever sided with someone like her would only end up screwed.
With that, Rebecca went into the kitchen, poured the medicine into a bowl, and went upstairs
with it.
When Susan saw her about to give the stuff to Jonathan Reed again, she yelled, “I told you not to give it to him! Are you deal?”
She screamed hysterically.
But Rebecca didn’t react at all. She went straight upstairs to Jonathan’s room.
He was asleep.
That was all he could do these days–no doctor, no hospital.
Rebecca set the bowl down on the nightstand with a loud bang, waking Jonathan.
He frowned at her. “What are you doing?”
Rebecca said coldly. “This is the last bowl of medicine I’ll ever bring you. Drink it or don’t, I don’t care. Whether your hand recovers or not, that’s up to fate.”
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Jonathan’s eyes twitched, sensing something. “Where are you going?”
Rebecca replied flatly, “To take my son and get out of here.”
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People in this family are really giving me speechless, I’m just care about money. As for actual people? Not worth a damn.
Jonathan never intended to marry me anyway. And even if he did….
Marrying a man like that would mean nothing but misery. A mother–in–law like Susan? That was hell.
I want to live a few more years, not die of stress.
Jonathan’s face darkened. He sat up, fully awake now. “What did you say? You’re leaving?”
Rebecca looked back at him.
Her lips curled into a mocking smile. “What, do you think I’m going to stay here and rot with you? Sorry, I’m not that kind of woman.”
Why waste myself on someone who was clearly a lost cause?
Am I asking for misery?
No thanks, my heart couldn’t take it.
Jonathan’s face turned red with anger when he heard the word “rot.”
*And the money I gave you?”
What rot? Was that really how she saw the Reed family?
I had given her food, a place to live, everything, and she called that rot?
Rebecca replied, “The money? Oh, I used it to raise the child. Don’t tell me you want it back?”
Jonathan growled, “You!”
That is about all the money we had left.
I hadn’t been to the company for a while, but I still kept in touch with my team.
I knew what had happened. The reality was harsh but undeniable.
My father had already siphoned off what little money the company had left.
The company was bankrupt.
The Reeds were finished.
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Rebecca muttered to herself, “This is insane. I can’t even get through one day without your mother breathing down my neck. If anyone wants to stay in this hellhole, 1 be my guest.”
I’m done. There is nothing more for me here.
She tossed the words over her shoulder and walked out.
Jonathan yelled, “Come back! Give me my money!”
“In your dreams, loser!” Rebecca shouted at him.
Jonathan froze.
Rebecca left his room and went straight to Lillian’s.
As she walked in, Lillian instinctively shrank back. Perhaps it was because she was still too weak.
If Rebecca really decided to throw her hands up, she wouldn’t be able to defend herself.
Seeing the fear in her eyes, Rebecca scoffed. “Oh, cut the act. No one’s watching.”
“You—what do you want now?”
Since the last beating. Lillian hadn’t dared to provoke Rebecca. The wounds on her face hadn’t. even healed yet.
This woman is vicious.
Rebecca said, “What do I want? I just came to tell you that you won. I’m out.”
Lillian’s eyes flickered.
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Rebecca saw the flash of triumph in Lillian’s eyes and sneered. This broken family is yours. Knock yourself out.”
She tossed the words over her shoulder and walked away,
It had only been a few days, but Rebecca had already seen through everything in this household.
Just as she turned to leave, Lillian called out from behind her. “Wait, what about my brother’s money?”
The thought of how much money Rebecca had taken from Jonathan made her angry.
Now she is just going to walk out?
Rebecca turned around. “Your brother? What a joke. He’s Stella’s real brother. But she didn’t want him. Are you picking up what she threw away? That’s right up your alley.”
“You…
Lillian felt humiliated.
But she didn’t dare defend herself. She was afraid this woman would hit her again.
Rebecca smiled. “What? He has a legal heir now. He has a son. And you? You’re nothing. Do you want me to leave the money? Have you looked in the mirror lately?”
Lillian’s face grew pale with anger. She glared at Rebecca, practically ready to skin her alive.
When Susan realized that Rebecca was taking the child and the money, another shouting match broke out.
But Rebecca wasn’t one to be talked down to. Once the money was in her hands, there was no getting it back.
And sure enough, after two hours of screaming….
She walked away with the kid and the money.
It was as if the sky had fallen on the Reed family.
Susan cried in Jonathan’s room. “Why on earth did you get involved with a woman like that?”
Two hours!
This woman had cursed us for two full hours, without once repeating herself. Her mouth was foul enough to rival a street thug
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His head throbbed with pain.
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“That car accident… was it really Lillian who planned it to hurt Stella?” he asked suddenly, cutting
off Susan’s tirade.
Susan froze at the question.
She lowered her head and said nothing.
Seeing her reaction, Jonathan got the gist of it. “So what now?”
After all, Stella is my biological sister.
I had grown up with Lillian, but if she had really tried to hurt Stella, I didn’t know how I could accept it.
Susan remained silent.
Her whole body was shaking.
Jonathan frowned. “Well? What are you going to do?”
Susan’s voice was hoarse. “What else can I do? We’ll figure it out when Lillian gets better.”
Jonathan was stunned.
Get better?
“With her condition,
do you really i
ink she will?”
And even if she can, we don’t have the money for the treatment.
It will at least cost a few million.
Then he remembered how Stella had been in a hospital bed for months two years ago, and it had all started with Lillian.
A cold distance began to form in his heart.
Susan sensed the change in him and looked up at him with a pained expression. “Jonathan. I…”
“Mom, Stella is your true daughter. The reason we sided with Lillian all these years was because we thought Stella was bullying her after she came back.”
Susan said nothing.
Jonathan continued, “But what if all of Stella’s resentment…stemmed from the accident? What does that make Lillian?”
For the past two years, Stella had been railing against Lillian.
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But if she had been targeted first, almost killed, by Lillian, wasn’t she justified?
Susan’s breath caught.
She froze.
Jonathan’s voice grew cold. “Ethan too. He broke up with her over it, didn’t he?”
He remembered the day Ethan had left.
As Jonathan asked, the atmosphere around him grew sharper and colder.
Susan’s already labored breathing slowed again. She was shaking.
“… she…
Suddenly she didn’t know what to say. Her eyes filled with sorrow as she looked at her son.
Jonathan was shaking with rage.
That night. Stella had planned to wait and have dinner with Abraham, but he never came home.
So she ended up meeting Rianne.
When she arrived, Rianne was on the phone with Tessa.
Tessa, who was in Falvaria, sounded absolutely frantic.
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Now Tessa was finding everyone to gossip to something to calm her nerves.
When Rianne saw Stella arrive, she said into the phone, “All right, all right. You should tell Star all this.
Tessa replied. “She didn’t answer earlier.
“Oh, so that’s why.”
No wonder Tessa had dragged me into the gossip all along; she just couldn’t get a hold of Stella.
Stella hadn’t been much of a gossip at first.
But over time, Tessa had definitely rubbed off on her
Sometimes it wasn’t so bad to indulge in a little gossip.
“Was that Tessa on the phone?” Stella asked, lifting her water glass to take a sip.
Rianne nodded and spooned some ice cream into her mouth. “Yes. She’s practically terrified over there in Falvaria. Can you save her?”
Stella said, “Abraham told me that Tessa’s situation is complicated right now. Since Mr. Victor is willing to investigate, staying with him is actually the safest option. Actually, in my opinion, with people out to kill her and even chasing her as far as Falvaria, there’s really no safer place than at Mr. Victor’s side.”
Rianne raised an eyebrow. “You mean the guy dodging bullets while dragging her through. gunfire? Are you sure that’s safer?”
Stella paused. “…!!”
Come to think of it, that was a little intense for someone like Tessa.
Stella was about to ask the waiter for the same ice cream Rianne was having, but Rianne said, “I already ordered one for you. You weren’t here earlier, so I told them to wait. I didn’t want it to melt.”
Stella smiled. “Oh.”
I really had been craving some.
When I was around Abraham, he usually didn’t let me have any.
Just as she was thinking about Abraham, her phone rang.
It was him.
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“You’re out?”
“Yeah. You said you weren’t coming back for dinner, so I went out with Rianne.”
“Send me your location.”
“Huh?”
“I’ll pick you up when I’m done.”
“Okay.
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Hearing Abraham say he’d come get her gave Stella a little warmth inside. After hanging up. she immediately sent him her location.
just as she put the phone down, the ice cream arrived.
It had been a long time since Stella had any. Abraham was usually afraid it would upset her stomach, so he only let her have a few bites.
As she ate, she asked Rianne, “So what did Tess say earlier?”
“She said that Rebecca took the money and ran. The Reed family is in total chaos right now.”
“Pfft! Cough, cough, cough…
The words “took the money and ran” made Stella choke.
She stared at Rianne, stunned. “Rebecca took the money and ran? Seriously?”
Rianne nodded. “Definitely.”
Stella was speechless.
“She took all of Jonathan’s money. And Patrick took what was left from the company.”
“…” Stella was stunned.
“Now the whole Reed family is a disaster. One has a useless hand, one is chronically ill, and the other doesn’t make a dime. If that’s not the end, what is? I used to think I could squeeze a few million out of them. But now? They’ve got nothing”
When Rianne said “nothing,” her tone was full of resentment.
After all, I had gone to the trouble of making a personal visit, even to weave such an elaborate ruse.
And in the end I got nothing.
Stella asked, “Are they really that broke?”
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The Reeds had been well off in Rivermount. How could they suddenly not be able to afford a few million?
Rianne shrugged. “Rebecca came out of nowhere and drained them of every last drop.
Well, I guess Rebecca was not to be underestimated.
This woman had a child with Jonathan just to marry into money.
But after spending a few days there, with a brain like hers, the must have found out the truth.
There was nothing left for her, so of course she’d take the money and leave.
“Lillian’s definitely not going to make it, Stella said.
Rianne nodded. “Serves her right.”
After all that arrogance….
She almost killed Stella.
Speaking of the Reeds, Rianne’s voice was full of satisfaction. “It’s so satisfying. The whole Reed family is the talk of Rivermount now. You should have seen how smug Madam Susan used to be. She acted as if everyone else was beneath her. Well, look at her now. The women she used to bully are all enjoying the show.”
Stella remained silent.
Well… I had to admit, it was quite satisfying.
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Stella spooned some ice cream into her mouth.
Back when the Reed family was ridding high, Lillian had wanted to trample everyone underfoot.
Hell, look how the tables had turned.
After dinner, Abraham still hadn’t called, so Rianne suggested they go shopping.
And now Rianne wants to go shopping, too?
The Hales were a mess, and both Tempest’s mother, Madam Linden, and his aunt had never liked Rianne.
She avoided the banquets whenever she could.
I’m fine.” Rianne said.
But Stella could hear the bitterness in her voice, no matter how hard she tried to hide it.
When Tempest’s father, Mr. Jace, was alive, she at least put on a showe,
Rianne was only five years old at the time. Out of gratitude, Mr. Jace had brought her into the family.
Even with this life–saving debt hanging over them, they had no affection for her.
That was a quick change of subject.
“I thought you were still living with Tempest for the last two years. Why buy a place now?”
Because the others in the Hale family didn’t like her, Tempest had bought an estate outside the Hale mansion to live with her.
I loved that neighborhood too. The property management there was top–notch.
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In my opinion, Rianne and Tempest had always been solid. He treated her really well.
Even when the whole Hale family looked down on her, Tempest had always stood by her.
Is that Jasmine?
Wait a second. Sharon was close to Lillian, so it made sense that their social circles overlapped.
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Before she could say anything, Rianne jumped in. “The Reeds, huh? Does Lillian still count as a rich heiress? The family is bankrupt. Maybe she cursed them into bankruptcy. That sleazy little Reed family, Star wouldn’t touch them even if they begged. She’d be afraid they’d pull her down. Only someone like Lillian would want them.”
When had this girl’s tongue become so sharp?
Rianne had always been so gentle, especially when Tempest was shielding her. When did she start throwing punches like that?
As soon as she said it….
That was exactly how Madam Linden had always described me behind
My father had died saving Mr. Jace’s life, and yet Madam Linden had never given me a shred of dignity.
If the family hadn’t treated me that way in the first place, would others dare say such things?
Jasmine had finally found an outlet for her anger and lashed out at both Rianne and Stella.
I had liked Eddie for a long time. This blind date had taken forever to arrange.
And when I finally got my chance, Stella ruined it.
I didn’t like Stella either.
But knowing that Stella had Abraham behind her, I hadn’t dared to provoke her all night.
And whatever her father had warned her about the consequences of insulting Stella…
She’d completely forgotten.
The moment she saw Stella, all her anger came flooding back. She snapped and lunged at her.
But Stella wasn’t one to take it lying down.
Whose side was Sharon on? No idea. But her technique of “breaking up fights was top–notch.
Then she turned her eyes to Rianne and Stella. “You just wait. I won’t let this go.”
Stella and Rianne exchanged a look.
Jasmine snapped back to reality. “Hey! I’m the one who got beat up! And you’re calling for backup?!”
Look at the state I was in! My face was shredded! Meanwhile, Stella and Rianne were fine and still dared to play the victim?
Stella’s voice shook with a sob. “It was Eddie’s blind date. She hit me.”
They actually tried to kill Jasmine socially.
Especially Stella.
I had already seen how protective Abraham was of her during the last incident.
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