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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.”

the night,” Jeffrey replied, totally unfazed. “But bet I’ll still hang around longer

fixed his gaze on Jeffrey, watching

punk manage to get Rebecca to fall for

he just kicked back, shooting the breeze with Samuel–asking if he was getting used to things around here, or how Rebecca was

and before anyone realized, it was

Amelia came

spotted Ryan still hanging around and cut straight to the point: “Why are you still

said, 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 go

he’s not even healed up yet and he’s out here messing

Ryan said, getting to his

argue. He ruffled Samuel’s hair,

Rebecca replied, “Happy birthday.”

paused, a softness flickering in his

Samuel a quick hug, said goodbye to Amelia,

clear–Amelia gave him the cold shoulder the whole time, and Rebecca acted like he wasn’t even

Outside the villa.*

into

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If you looked closer, you’d see he’d been toughing it out the whole time, pain from his barely healed wound gnawing away at

Gregory said, his voice tinged with worry as he

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

a bit,” Gregory warned, popping open the kit. The car was already disinfected. “Try

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

Gregory thought to

in way worse shape by the time we

toughed it out all afternoon so Rebecca and Samuel wouldn’t notice anything was off. This kind of pain was nothing he

carefully began to unwrap

just started unwrapping the bandages when someone knocked on the window. Jeffrey

window, but Gregory’s worried voice stopped

much slip past

dinner tonight

made sure he ate food likely to aggravate his wound–it was obvious he knew exactly what was

out in front of Rebecca,

The window rolled down.

was still tending to

blood on the bandage, he looked genuinely surprised. “Why didn’t you play the injury card earlier? If Rebecca had seen it, maybe

once.”

calm all afternoon that Ryan had thought the whole injury thing was

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out he’d just been toughing it out

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got feelings for someone, would you actually