After recovering the funds, I threw myself into the hundred-billion-dollar project.
I thought the situation with Rex had finally come to an end. I was wrong.
A few days later, Rex showed up at Carlisle Group with Yara and kicked open the conference room doors while I was in the middle of discussing the next stage of the project with several clients.
"Stella, you've really gone too far!" Rex barked the moment he walked in. "You stole every one of the Cresswell family's clients and pushed us into a corner. How can someone as ruthless as you even call herself human?"
Then he turned toward the clients seated at the table. "And you people still dare work with a woman like her? Aren't you afraid she'll drag you down too?"
Yara immediately followed up with tears and dramatics. "Stella has no
