Chapter 264 The Missing Piece
Just then, Abel returned. “Sir.”
“How is it?”
Abraham’s thin lips parted slightly, spitting out two words.
Abel said. “We found and brought back all of Evie’s people. Evie wasn’t with them.”
Abraham raised an eyebrow and glanced at Abel.
Abel explained. “They said Miss Evie ditched them as soon as she got off the plane.”
Eddie came bursting in from outside, snow clinging to him, just in time to hear Abel’s words. His heart skipped a beat again.
No way. What did she mean by ditching Marie’s people? What was she planning?
Eddie felt like he was about to fall apart.
He cursed Evie a thousand times in his heart, then felt like something was wrong.. but couldn’t figure out what it was.
Abraham’s long fingers tapped rhythmically on the dining table.
The steady rhythm only made the tension in the air worse. Eddie glanced nervously at Stella.
Stella kept her eyes down, pretending to see nothing, hear nothing.
Why was he looking at her? She didn’t dare speak up for Evie either. Since childhood, Abraham had taught her to be ruthless toward anyone who tried to hurt her.
Evie was trying to steal her away. If she spoke up for her now, Abraham would definitely give her an earful later when no one else was around
Eddie was about to lose it. “I don’t think that girl has the brains to pull anything crazy
“Oh? Really? Then what is it when she ditches Marie’s people?”
Eddie was silent
He wanted to cry. He wanted to kneel down before all the ancestors.
Seriously, why would Evie ditch Marie’s people? What the hell was she thinking?
Abraham didn’t bother talking to Eddie anymore. He turned to Stella. “You’re staying by my side for the next few days.”
Evie was a handful.
If she managed to steal Stella away now, after shaking off Marie’s people, who knew where she’d take her? She might just drag her all over the world out of spite.
Stella nodded obediently. “Okay”
But then she realized something was off. “I have to go to the studio tomorrow.”
“You don’t need to go to the studio”
“What?”
Abel’s sudden words made Stella’s mind go completely blank.
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“Ma’am, something big happened. Sterling Global just pulled out of our partnership.
Kimmy’s voice was full of urgency.
Stella was stunned.
How could that not be a big deal? A client paying several million a year was leaving?
She jumped to her feet, knocking over her chair with a loud bang.
She didn’t care that Abraham. Eddie, and the others were all there.
Holding the phone, she hurried to one side. “What happened? Weren’t things going well?”
“And didn’t they already pay the deposit for the design?”
out?
How could they just pull out!
And they’d always been satisfied with the designs before!
Kimmy said, “I don’t know. I just got a call from their business department saying the partnership is terminated.”
“Did they give a reason?”
NO
No reason?
Losing a client that big was basically a death sentence for her studio.
Stella gasped. “Maybe they think we’re dragging our feet with the drafts? Tell them we’ll finish everything in three days. Three days, tops.
It was all Abraham’s fault for getting her hurt. Now even her big client was running away.
The studio couldn’t fail. There were so many designers relying on it
Kimmy said, “They just said the partnership’s over. The only reason they gave was: not needed anymore.”
“Not needed anymore?”
What kind of reason was that?
Stella asked, “Do we have to refund the design deposit?”
“They said no.”
Stella’s mouth twitched. “No?”
Sterling Global really was a big company. Tens of thousands in deposit and they just waved it off like nothing!
Were they so rich that money just blew in with the wind?
Stella gnawed on her fingernail, frowning. “There’s really no way to turn this around?”
Kimmy said, “No.”
Stella went silent.
The deal was just over? No proper reason at all?
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that your sister’s people are here, my sister’s missing”
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