On the other side in the private villa.
Mr. Atwood was in a hurry when he got back from outside, where it was still pouring rain, "The news
that Lyndon died is already out, and with the news that Steward Group had to pledge all their money,
the stock price of Steward Group is dropping drastically. If it goes on like this, latest around tomorrow
evening, it will end."
Jon was sitting on the sofa, who looked very casual. Clearly he was very satisfied with this result.
Mr. Atwood looked around, "Sir, is Mr. James not back yet?"
"He is. I guess something happened because he doesn’t look so good."
Mr. Atwood tsked, "But sir, till now I haven’t understood. Didn’t the you-know-who made great effort to
save Lyndon, and took the biggest risks to get him out of City N. Why would he kill him now?"
Jon crossed his legs, and said slowly, "Obviously it's because he's of no use anymore. Saving him back
then was to find out more about what really happened 20 years ago. By using him we can find out if
William is the real Charles Lyndon, and how powerful William is now."
"But then why didn’t we kill him right after that. Why would we..."
"Lyndon was already a useless pawn. It didn’t matter if he was dead or alive, but now Clarence and
Darnell have their eyes on Caesar, and Chassell, that idiot brought us a lot of trouble. If we didn’t find
something to distract them, we would have left long ago; we wouldn’t be able to sit here so calmly."
Jon said, squinting his eyes.
Besides, Clarence must have noticed something. Only for that, you-know-who would arrange such a
big show, to make Clarence switch his attention onto Caesar, who was the biggest problem.
Handily, they were in the safest spot now.
He patted the armrest of the sofa, and got up saying, "It’s late, we should sleep."
...
After Stella woke up, she felt that her head was still spinning, and her nose was stuffy, but she was
feeling much better than the night before.
She turned her head and saw that Clarence was still sleeping. She wanted to make breakfast, after that
she would take her medicine, which should make her feel better.
Who knew that the moment she flung her blanket open, Clarence woke up. He grabbed her wrist and
pulled her back into his arms. His hand resting on her forehead, he said in a husky voice, "Good, you
are not having a fever."
Stella nodded, "It’s not that bad. I will make breakfast, you sleep..."
Clarence hugged her by the waist, "Stay with me for a while."
Stella didn’t have enough energy to push him away so she closed her eyes again.
It had been raining the whole night. The sky was foggy and dark, drizzling rain was shrouding the city.
This was the perfect weather to sleep...
But maybe because Stella had slept too long the night before, she couldn’t fall asleep again.
After a while she asked in a small voice, "Clarence, are you asleep?"
"Hm?"
"I suddenly remembered something. Why do you think Caesar is behind all this? If he wanted to take
Elaine just to hurt the James family, that would be understandable. But this time he helped to kill
Lyndon, I feel that something is off, something that doesn’t make sense."
"What?"
"Since… Caesar’s target is the James family, all he is doing should be about the James family, but
according to what he did last night, his target must be us. You have already left Conrad Group, you
shouldn’t be of any threat to him anymore. Why would he..."
Clarence opened his eyes, "His target is not me, but the Steward Group."
Stella was stunned, "But the Steward Group and him..."
"Besides the Conrad Group, Steward Group is one of the top in Asia. Even though the company had
been inflicted a great deal due to Lyndon, they are slowly recovering. Do you remember Caesar had
said that he wanted to develop a new business in City N?"
"Under such circumstances, investing in the Steward Group might be the easiest way for him."
Stella couldn't help but widen her eyes, "But why would he ally with Lyndon and ask the Steward Group
for so much money?"
Clarence said, "What he wants is not money. After the news about the Steward Group mortgaging their
assets had gone viral, there was fluctuation in the stock market. On top of that, the news about
Lyndon's death had gone around, he was the ex-president of the company, so that made its stock price
drop even more."
Stella finally understood, "So he is using the chance now to buy himself in. As soon as the stock price
is back up again, he would be the one to have most share of Steward Group?"
"Right."
Stella wanted to say something else, but Clarence said, "But that is not for you to worry. Let me handle
it."
When she heard that she agreed.
She didn't understand those things, even if she wanted to help she couldn't. Instead Clarence was
much better at that.
Stella said, "Alright, I can't sleep anymore. I am getting up."
Just as she moved, she was pushed back again.
Clarence asked, "Haven't you forgotten something?"
Stella was surprised, "What?"
Clarence reminded her, "Before we went to the Steward Group yesterday, where were we heading?"
Oh.
She totally forgot about that.
Stella said, "So what now?"
"We are going today."
"It's raining."
"So the city hall doesn't work on rainy days?"
Stella said, "Didn't you say that yesterday was a perfect day that wouldn't appear again anytime soon?
How can we do it today?"
Clarence answered frankly, "That was a lie."
He paused for a while, and continued, "As long as you are my partner, everyday is the perfect day."
Stella smiled a little, "Let's wait a few days, wait till all this is solved."
Especially now that they didn't even know what was going on with Daniel, they could not get married.
That wouldn't be right.
"Alright, let's see what other excuses you will find then."
Stella stuttered, "I... I am not looking for excuses. It's not like I don't want to go. There are things
coming in between."
When she said that, she used the chance to get out of Clarence's arms and ran into the bathroom.
When Clarence saw her back, he couldn't help smiling.
She seemed very active.
It was early in the morning, Stella wasn't very hungry yet, she made some vegetable porridge and was
about to go downstairs to buy some stuff, and to take a walk to breath some fresh air.
When she went into the bedroom to change her clothes, Clarence was on the phone.
Stella said in a hushed voice, "I am going out."
Clarence nodded once, and kept talking on the phone.
Stella was ready and about to go out when Clarence gave her a jacket.
Stella smiled, she reached out to grab her jacket and used the chance when he didn't pay attention to
kiss him on the cheek, and then she jogged away.
Clarence raised his brows a little.
On the other end of the line, Nathan asked, "Mr. Conrad?"
Clarence snapped out of it and said, "I didn't hear you, please say that again."
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