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.
Chapter 372 She Doesn’t Owe You Anything
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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