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.

with a lawsuit between her and Bella’s fan if there

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

Bella who asked you

shook his head. “She wasn’t the one who

good at what you do, and both of you even

replied flatly. “We’ve never worked together, and I don’t

helped her assistant

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

the one who hired Ted?

whole incident and slowly connected the dots. a strange feeling that someone intentionally made her believe Keegan helped Bella

Keegan because of that.

be Dahlia? That doesn’t make sense. Keegan and I were already divorced

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