Ted was taken aback. “Of course not. He has to be heartless to ask me to help someone in a lawsuit against his ex-wife.”

Stella frowned. “But I saw you talking to each other during the recess.”

“Well, we were schoolmates, after all. Besides, we were pretty close back then too.” Ted said.

“Why would he be in the courtroom that day then?”

Ted was puzzled. “Wasn’t he there to see you?”

Stella kept quiet.

‘See me, my foot! Keegan didn’t even know I was the plaintiff.’

Stella initially thought that Keegan was there for Bella. However, after discovering that Bella shared those flirtatious messages visible only to her, she realized that was not the case.

not bother himself with a lawsuit between her and Bella’s fan if there were really something going on between him and

think to herself. ‘Ted just said that it wasn’t Keegan who appointed him. Could it be that Bella hired him herself? Did she intentionally hire a lawyer Keegan knew, misleading me into thinking that he was involved and making our relationship worse? But Bella got so busy with the lawsuit that she even toned down her public appearances. Would she even have the

again, “So, was it Bella who asked you to help

wasn’t the one who hired me. If I my friend’s law

and both of you even worked together before. Why didn’t she ask for your

never worked together,

her assistant with? Wasn’t she the one

honest, I didn’t really know who the client was. I only accepted it because that person offered a very high price. Who

wasn’t the one who hired Ted? Who could

as she thought to herself. She recalled the whole incident and slowly connected the dots. a strange feeling that someone intentionally made her believe

get very mad and disappointed at Keegan because

were already divorced at that time.

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