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Rebecca hung on every word, completely focused.

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Amelia ushered her back into the study and cut straight to the chase: “That twenty percent of the shares belongs to you, fair and square. Whatever anyone else has to say–don’t let it get to you.”

“Okay,” Rebecca nodded.

At first, Rebecca thought, ‘Is it really okay to buy back those stocks at their old price after they’ve shot up a hundred times in value over the years?‘ But she quickly brushed that off–if they bothered to stick that clause in the sale agreement way back then, there had to be a reason behind it.

‘No way they did it out of the kindness of their hearts.

If they actually had any conscience, they wouldn’t have made Mom sell them in the first place!

Over the next half hour, Amelia gave Rebecca a rundown of what happened with the Quinn Group in the past. She only gave a brief mention of how the Quinn family and Liam had treated her–she didn’t go into detail, keeping things strictly business.

Even so, Rebecca couldn’t shake off the heaviness in her heart for a long time after hearing it all.

“That’s pretty much the gist of it,” Amelia said, pausing to think. “If I remember anything else, I’ll let you know.”

“Mom…” Rebecca whispered, suddenly realizing just how much her kind–hearted mother had been through. I never knew it was all this hard for her,‘ she thought.

Amelia glanced over, responding gently, “Hmm?”

Rebecca clenched her fists, determination burning in her eyes. “I promise, I’ll take back what’s yours.”

It was Mom who saved the Quinn Group.

Mom was the one who brought in all those crucial partners.

She fought for those shares all by herself, through grit and skill.

But in the end, just for being a woman–over nothing but petty gossip and nasty talk–the Quinn family did everything to squeeze those shares from her. Honestly, they’re heartless and rotten to the core.

“Of course I do,” Amelia replied with a gentle smile, her eyes warm and full of trust–she meant every word.

Meanwhile, downstairs, Jeffrey glanced over at Ryan, who was still hanging around looking like he had nowhere else to be.

He asked offhandedly, “Mr. Guzman, haven’t left yet? Hoping Rebecca will invite you to stick around for a late–night bite?”

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“I’m waiting for you,” Ryan said.

Jeffrey blinked, confused.

Ryan glanced upstairs and smirked. “With the way you and Rebecca get along, I seriously doubt they’ll let you crash here overnight.”

unfazed. “But bet I’ll still

fixed his gaze on Jeffrey, watching him

to get Rebecca to fall for him?‘ Ryan thought

back, shooting the breeze with Samuel–asking if

by, and before anyone realized, it was

and Amelia

spotted Ryan still hanging around and cut straight

tossing a glance at Jeffrey, who looked like he could pass out any minute. Knowing he was about to get the boot, Ryan figured maybe he could rope Jeffrey into

opened his

right at him and said, “You should

not even healed up yet and he’s out here messing around? Does he even care about

Ryan said, getting to

heading out,” Jeffrey replied, not bothering to argue. He ruffled

Rebecca replied, “Happy birthday.”

softness

quick hug, said

was clear–Amelia gave him the cold shoulder the whole

Outside the villa.*

into

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you looked closer, you’d see he’d been toughing it out the whole time, pain from his

said, his voice tinged with worry as

off his dark casual shirt, revealing a lean, toned torso. The bandage

dressing might sting a bit,” Gregory warned, popping open the kit. The car was already disinfected. “Try to bear with

over, Gregory had been worried things might go sideways, so he’d even picked up some first aid

Gregory

in way worse shape

toughed it out all afternoon so Rebecca and Samuel wouldn’t notice anything was off. This kind of pain was

began to unwrap

started unwrapping the bandages when someone knocked on the

voice stopped him. “Mr. Hanson, the fewer people know about

let much slip past them,” Jeffrey replied, unfazed.

tonight said

food likely to aggravate his wound–it was obvious he

out in front of Rebecca, Jeffrey figured it

The window rolled down.

tending to his

bandage, he looked genuinely surprised. “Why didn’t you play the injury card earlier? If Rebecca had seen it, maybe she’d have let her guard down and actually cared about

once.”

been so calm all afternoon that Ryan had thought the whole injury

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for someone, would you actually want her