Stella lived in Clarence’s apartment for several days. Without being bothered by Charles and Phoebe,
Stella felt quite relaxed even though sometimes Clarence was annoying.
When learning that Charles had come back, Stella also came back to the Steward family on that day.
Just as she entered the house, Phoebe’s cold voice sounded, “You really take my home as a hotel
where you can come and go at will?”
Stella smiled lightly, “Ms. Steward, you misunderstand me. I never mean this. It’s just that not everyone
can be as lucky as like you. Ms. Steward, you can stay at home every day and you don’t need to do
anything. You can even invite your friends to have an afternoon tea when you’re boring. But I’m not as
lucky as you. I have to run here and there for my work. Mr. Steward, you can understand me on this
point, right?”
When Stella was speaking, Charles occurred to walk downstairs from the second floor.
He said, “Do you mean that you were not in City N during the past days?”
“Of course not. Because of my work, I got off the work late every day. Fearing that I might bother Ms.
Steward when she was having a rest, I lived in the other place recently.”
Charles didn’t say anything else. He took a glance at Phoebe, hinting her to come back to her
bedroom.
Of course Phoebe wouldn’t accept this. When she was about to say something, Stella spoke, “By the
way, Mr. Steward, I’ve fulfilled what I’ve promised you. When will you fulfill your promise?”
Charles asked, “What promise?”
Stella had expected that he would not agree to it easily. She said with a smile, “Mr. Steward, great wits
have short memories. It’s normal that you’ve forgotten it. You promised before that as long as I could
clarify that all the things happened before had nothing to do with Ms. Steward, you will let Ms. Steward
apologize brother.”
Stella paused and then continued, “Mr. Steward, do you remember it now?”
Before Charles could say something, Phoebe said with a cold face, “Impossible!”
Stella looked towards Charles while maintaining the smile on her face, “Mr. Steward, do you think so?”
Phoebe hurriedly called him, “Dad…”
“Phoebe,” Charles interrupted her and then asked Stella, “How do you want her to apologize to your
brother?”
Stella said, “Although this matter can’t be exposed to the public, my brother can’t suffer those
grievances in vain. Therefore, I invited Mr. Thomas to witness it. Mr. Steward, if you don’t have any
objection, let’s set the time on tomorrow. It’s the weekend and my brother will be free.”
Charles knitted his brows and he was probably dissatisfied that Stella would invite Cameron to be a
witness. He didn’t reply to it instantly.
Phoebe said, “Stella Radomil, enough is enough. Don’t go too far!”
“Ms. Steward, you words are so interesting. Who’s the one who has gone too far?” Stella’s expression
uncontrollably turned cold and even her tone was tinged with a touch of coldness, “Ms. Steward, if you
have any dissatisfaction, you can target at me. Have my brother offended you? Why did you use that
obscene trick on him? Ms. Steward, do you think what you did is so lofty so that others should praise
it?”
Phoebe’s expression changed from pale to red alternatively under Stella’s criticism. She moved her
lips, yet still couldn’t utter a syllable after a long while.
Right at this moment, Charles’ voice sounded, “It’s useless to continue this topic. You shall arrange the
time and venue.”
“Mr. Steward, then I will thank you in advance.”
After finishing the words, Stella smiled at Charles, turned around and went upstairs.
Phoebe looked towards Charles in disbelief, “Dad, are you really letting me apologize to her brother?
I…”
Charles lifted his hand to interrupt her, “It’s just an apology. It’s not a big deal.”
“Why isn’t it a big deal? I won’t agree to it!”
Charles took a glance at her and said, “Come to my study.”
They then came to the study. Before Phoebe could say something to refuse it, Charles said in a deep
voice, “Didn’t you tell me before that you didn’t involve in the matter of the Young Designers’ Contest?”
Phoebe was dumbfounded when she heard the question. She said after a long while, “I… I didn’t.”
Charles sat down in front of the desk and said with a cold and ferocious expression, “Although at
present the Conrad Group is mostly under Clarence’s control, since the other members of the Conrad
family can still fight against Clarence until now, do you think that Dempsey doesn’t have his force and
men?”
It was the first time that Charles talked to Phoebe in such a tone. Phoebe’s face turned pale, “I… I…”
She still couldn’t utter a complete sentence after a long while.
Originally, Charles planned to come back several days later. However, the Conrad family had been
seeking troubles for him recently and he had no choice. He came back hurriedly although the affairs
abroad hadn’t been solved.
The other members of the Conrad family were different from Clarence. He had known Dempsey for
many years and Dempsey knew many of his secrets that other people didn’t know.
Even though for the time being, based on Dempsey’s force, he would not be able to do anything to the
Steward Group. But there was an old saying – slight negligence may lead to greater disaster.
He had to guard against this possibility in this critical and sensitive period.
Charles said in a tired tone, “All right. Don’t bring trouble to me again. Be obedient and apologize to
him.”
Phoebe bit her lower lip, daring not to retort this again.
After coming back to her bedroom, Phoebe took out her phone and dialed Modesty.
When the call was received, she said in a cold voice, “Did you betray me?”
Modesty paused and said, “Ms. Steward, I don’t know what you mean?”
Phoebe said in a cold voice, “Since this matter has progressed to what it is now, you don’t need to act
in front of me again.”
“Ms. Steward, I really don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve been under such a miserable condition
and it’s unnecessary for me to pretend anything again.”
“It’s better to be like this. If I find out that you were the backstabber, don’t blame me for being cruel.”
When Phoebe was about to end the call, Modesty’s voice sounded from the other end of the phone,
“Ms. Steward, I’m not the backstabber, but you. I’ve been taken the blame for you for many times from
the very beginning. You were envious of Stella, but you didn’t dare to say it out loudly. Instead, you
deliberately stimulated me and asked me to do those things for you. When you did these things, have
you ever thought that you would suffer the consequences one day?”
“As expected, it was you.”
Modesty continued, “So what? Does it matter no matter it was done by me or not? I’ve lost everything
because of you and become how I look like today. We can go to hell together at worst!”
After finishing the words, Modesty directly hung up the phone.
Hearing the busy tones from the other end of the phone, Phoebe gritted her teeth tightly.
On the other side…
Modesty put down her phone and continued to package up her things.
She had sold this house and planned to start her new life in the other place.
Just as she had packaged up all the things, there came a string of doorbells. Stella thought that it was
the men from the moving company and hurriedly opened the door.
But the one standing at the door was the drunken Arthur.
Modesty was instantly freaked out. She wanted to close the door, but it was too late.
Arthur hiccupped and forcibly broke into the house. Looking at the suitcases in the house, he burst into
laughter, “Yo, where are you going to move to? I can give you a ride.”
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