Exiting the pantry, Stella hadn't gone far when she abruptly halted.

Jaylene stood silently at the corridor's bend, observing her.

"Stella, there are some things I shouldn't say, but I can't hold back.

Are you really encouraging someone to cut ties with their own mother?" Stella replied casually, "If you know it's best not to say something, then just keep quiet! What do you really know? Who are you to judge me? Just because you chipped in some money for Dahlia's debt?" Jaylene's expression hardened.

"So you were aware Aunt Dahlia waited for you all day yesterday, and you intentionally avoided her.

uw Stella nodded.

"Yes, but I didn't anticipate you'd be so generous as to lend her money." Jaylene shot her a disdainful look.

"I'm not as cold-hearted as you, ignoring people in need! You claim to love Keegan, yet you treat his mother so cruelly.

Is that what you call love?" Stella chuckled, "I'm certainly not as noble as you.

of losing my sanity, using my

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debts?" Stella pretended to

you?" "Tell me what?"

beating around the

to know, go find

With that, she turned and

wasn't a secret among their

glean Blake's

Arnold was affluent, but she always tightly controlled Jaylene's spending because Wenham Saun wasn't one to

were ultimately to please

twenty million lent to Dahlia

to ingratiate herself with Dahlia, hoping to improve her standing with

no intention of repayment, Stella doubted Jaylene

millions in the underground gambling den quickly circulated among their circle,

Jaylene finally panicked.

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