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“Stephanie!” A dark blue Bentley hastily pulled over on the roadside. Vincent leaned out of the car window, his gaze complex as he looked at the woman by the stone bench, his voice annoyed.

“Stephanie, you said you wanted to visit your aunt in the north of the city, but you were actually meeting up with Kevin Fire?”

“What?” Hearing Vincent’s voice, Stephanie immediately lifted her head, suddenly coming back to her senses.

“I just saw intimate gestures between you and Kevin with my own eyes. Vincent didn’t look at her again, his tone turning cold. “Get in the car. Your rendezvous is over. I have to take you back to Wellington Villa.”

Stephanie stood up and walked towards the car, wanting to explain, but she saw the fruit basket on the back seat, remembering the plan she and Vincent had made to visit Diana in the north of the city.

“Stephanie, don’t do things you shouldn’t do.” Vincent’s expression soured. Seeing her get into the car, he quickly started it, his tone ominously warning. “Otherwise, you won’t be able to bear the consequences!”

If Stephanie was truly seeing Kevin behind Dominick’s back, Vincent swore that even if she was pregnant with Dominick’s child, Dominick would not spare her. He would make her suffer immensely.

Because Dominick detested women who betrayed him.

Stephanie sat quietly in the back seat, listening to his words of warning.

Her gaze wandered outside the window, her mind in turmoil.

At this moment, Kevin saw Vincent coming to pick up Stephanie and leave. He instinctively wanted to follow, but in the end, he stopped.

Kevin was somewhat restless, and he couldn’t understand why.

Stephanie was his cousin’s wife now, and he shouldn’t have any improper thoughts, but… “What is the important thing she wanted to tell me just now?”

After Vincent dropped Stephanie off at Wellington Villa with a grim expression, he didn’t even say goodbye. He just drove off in a hurry.

The butler was puzzled to see Stephanie be back so soon.

He had planned to ask about the situation, but seeing her in a bad mood, he decided not to bother her.

Stephanie was not in the mood to visit Diana at the nursing home today. Initially, she wanted to go straight back to her bedroom. But she hesitated when she looked up at the delicate and thick door panel at the end of the corridor on the second floor.

She thought, “Dominick isn’t home now, so…

Dominick spent most of his time at home in this study. Stephanie had never entered the study before, but she thought if this man had any secrets, they would definitely be there.

study, looking around to make sure

cautiously turned the doorknob, then swiftly slipped

simple layout and subdued colors. It was equipped with a resting area and a bathroom, and sometimes Dominick would even sleep in

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five rows of bookshelves on the left side, filled with books, documents, and files. There was a

could tell a man’s personality and

definitely a powerful magnate. There were books in at least eight languages here, and the notes on these materials were concise and clear, showing his decisive

quickly searched the bookshelves for helpful information, such as about

up. She didn’t

was in the bottom row of yellowed document envelopes on the fifth bookshelf. The entire

“There’s so much…”

Most of them were from six

years ago.

the documents about Kevin

more tense, her movements becoming somewhat hurried as she wanted

she muttered, looking at the

you forget to close

door. “Except for the regular daily cleaning, Mr. Wellington doesn’t allow anyone to enter the study. We don’t have much time now. Get in

the sound of the door opening and the approaching footsteps, her

document back in its original place, looked around, then tiptoed and quickly walked behind the large

Although Stephanie couldn’t see their faces behind the heavy curtain, she could feel the atmosphere was tense. The maids didn’t dare say much in this room, and their movements were swift

the Wellington family were all

held her breath in fear, freezing in place, not daring

tidy up over there. Things on the

the tidying was almost done and quickly instructed, “Be quick. Check again to see if anything was missed,

about five minutes, Stephanie heard their footsteps leaving. She lifted a corner of the curtain and saw that only one maid was left in the study,

she lowered her body and

special. Without a key, one

letting out–a–sigh of relief but feeling a

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carefully.

one thing she

the study. He wouldn’t usually scrutinize the surveillance footage, but what if he found out! was

felt guilty and nervous for most of