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.

not to the point of losing my sanity, using my family's hard-earned money to settle his uncle's gambling

doesn't care, so why should 1?" Jaylene

Stella pretended

"Tell me what?" Jaylene's tone

around the bush!" Stella smiled

to know,

shouldn't mind." With that, she turned and left, leaving

gambling issue wasn't a

could easily glean Blake's character

she always tightly controlled Jaylene's spending because Wenham Saun wasn't one

were ultimately

twenty million lent to Dahlia

with Dahlia, hoping to

if this money was for gambling debts with no intention of repayment, Stella

the underground gambling den quickly circulated among their

Jaylene finally panicked.

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