Stella pressed her lips and didn’t answer.
She couldn’t understand it indeed, but she wasn’t in the mood to care about the Conrads’ family
business.
Justin added, “I guess Clarence hasn’t told you something before. He’s just my half-brother from a
different mother.”
Stella was startled, losing her tongue for a moment.
“Clarence is my father’s illegitimate son.” Justin operated the wheelchair to turn around and said
calmly, “When I was ten, I had a car accident, and I couldn’t stand up again. The Conrad family needs
a successor, so my father took Clarence in. He was only seven at that time. My mother always thought
that Clarence has snatched something that should originally belong to me. Hence, she disfavors
Clarence a lot.”
As he spoke, Justin smiled. “Clarence shouldn’t be blamed for my car accident, but my mother went too
extreme. All I could do was to make them get along. Additionally, after Clarence became the CEO of
Conrad Group, the company developed rapidly. Now even my father started to be afraid of him. They
are so eager to let Annie marry Horace Jason because they wanted to borrow the power from the
Jason family so that they could transfer the shares from Clarence’s hands.”
Although Justin didn’t tell her anything too straightforwardly, Stella understood something. Clarence
was an illegitimate child of the Conrad family and he didn’t have a good life in this family. On the
surface, he was the powerful CEO of Conrad Group, but in fact, his father was afraid that he would be
out of control and aimed to get someone else to replace him.
Suddenly, Stella understood why Clarence’s parents would let her marry into their family no matter how
much Clarence was against it.
What they truly wanted was the baby in her belly.
Stella subconsciously put her hand on her belly, cold sweat oozing on her back in fear.
No wonder that Clarence wasn’t willing to have the baby. If the Conrad family knew that she was
pregnant, Stella believed that they would try every possible means to...
Justin added, “I watched Clarence grow up. Although he looks aloof and has a sharp tongue, he isn’t
so scheming and ruthless as other men in this circle. In such a place where others might skin him alive,
he always keeps sobering and knows what he wants.
“Probably it’s because he has grown up in such a different environment, Clarence always evilly sees
people. Hence, even if he truly cares about someone, he always speaks harsh words to the person.
Sometimes, you can’t judge him from his words, but you should look at what he has done, which
represents his true thoughts.”
Stella wanted to retort him that Clarence didn’t do anything better than what he spoke.
All he had done to her were nothing that a human could do.
Stella realized that Justin, as Clarence’s brother, was still too generous to Clarence.
Seeing that Stella kept silent, Justin continued, “I know it’s quite inappropriate for me to tell you such
words, but I don’t think Clarence would tell you those things himself. I just hope you don’t
misunderstand him, which would lead you both...”
Stella smiled and interrupted him, “Mr. Conrad, I know what you are trying to tell me. Thank you for
trusting me so much and telling me the biggest secret of your Conrad family. However, Clarence
Conrad and I are divorced. No matter if he looks aloof but is warm-hearted or he has a harsh tongue
but is soft-hearted, it has nothing to do with me. Mr. Conrad, please rest assured. I won’t tell anyone
else anything you’ve told me.”
“Justin, the servant told me you came here. You...”
Joanna was talking to Justin while walking towards them. Then she saw Stella standing behind Justin,
her face turning cold instantly.
Stella said, “Good evening, Mr. Conrad.”
Joanna cast a glance at Justin and looked over at her. “It seems you’ve made up your mind already.”
“Mrs. Conrad, when you came to my office last time, I’ve said that Horace and I are not in such a
relationship as you’ve thought. I can’t do anything about the marriage between Annie Conrad and him.”
Stella was about to pull out the envelope, but Justin said, “Stella, Clarence didn’t give you anything
when you divorce. Please take this money as compensation from the Conrad family to you.”
It was fine if he hadn’t said so. However, upon hearing his words, Stella felt that the envelope was
burning her hands.
Without hesitation, Stella immediately said, “No...”
However, her refusal was too late.
“It turns out you came here today for this.”
She heard the man’s cold an ironic voice behind her.
Stella was speechless.
Joanna obviously was unwilling to meet Clarence. As soon as he came over, she turned around and
left.
Justin heaved a sigh in silence. “Clarence, you’ve misunderstood her. Stella didn’t come here for this. I
was forcing her to keep the money.”
Clarence stood motionlessly and upright. His tone was extremely indifferent. “You don’t need to put on
good words for her. I know what kind of person she is.”
“Clarence...”
Before Justin could finish his words, the butler came over. “Excuse me, Mr. Justin. Mr. Conrad wants to
see you.”
Justin said before leaving the garden, “Clarence, please talk nice.”
In an instant, there were two of them left in the big garden.
Stella slowly turned around and pressed her lips slightly. “Hi, Mr. Conrad.”
Clarence cast her a glance and his gaze fell on the envelope in her hands. “How much this time? Is it
enough to pay back how much you owed me?”
Stella clenched her fingers tightly, her face turning pale.
“I agree with your words -- we’ve divorced. I don’t want to see you again either. Give me back my
money. Don’t ever show up in front of me again.”
Clarence’s tone was quite calm. He even didn’t mock her, but his words made her frozen as if her
bones were chilled as well.
Seeing that Stella didn’t answer him for a long while, Clarence said again, “Why? Haven’t they given
you enough money? You asked me for the half property of Conrad Group. How can you be so satisfied
with such a small amount of money?”
After a long moment of silence, Stella answered in a flat tone, “Mr. Conrad, stop making wild guesses.
The money in my hands was offered by Mrs. Conrad to ask me to leave Horace. It’s has nothing to do
with you at all.”
Clarence was choked up by her words.
Stella knew that he said those words to poke at her sore spot, but she could kill him at his sore spot as
well, couldn’t she?
As she expected, Clarence's expression changed to extremely gloomy. He emanated coldness all over
his body.
Stella felt sickened. She wasn’t in the mood to be stalemated with him any longer. She put the
envelope on the tea table. “I’m putting it here. Mr. Conrad, I don’t give a shit if you want to send my
message or not. You can take that I’ve kept the money. Anyway, you guys always prejudged others
with your own thoughts.”
When Stella just took a step, she heard Clarence’s cold voice behind her. “You don’t care about the
money so much, but does your brother know it?”
Stella paused her pace, turned around, and looked at him. “What do you mean?”
Clarence curled up his lips. “Why don’t you guess with your pure and innocent mind?”
Stella was speechless.
She couldn’t help cursing the wretched man.
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