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That afternoon, Dominick had his men scour

en scour the area s

area several times, but Stephanie was nowhere to be found.

Even Scott was baffled. “She was right here. How did she sneak away!”

But seeing Dominick’s stony silence and the unnerving look in his eyes, Scott thought better of saying anything more and went back to work, pretending nothing had happened.

Meanwhile, Gary had regained consciousness at the hospital. It was confirmed that he had paralysis on the left side of his body and could no longer manage the company’s affairs. But he seemed calm, as if the illness had made him see through a lot of what had happened in the past.

“We’re only got one stomach and one mouth,” he said. “How much can we really eat or use? We’ve had our share of good times. There’s no need to chase after more money. Don’t worry about the company now!

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to the

Sumantha often sat by his bedside, mumbling these words, seemingly trying to comfort her seriously ill son or perhaps reminding herself. Diana stayed behind to look after them. Samantha’s change of heart and Gary’s determination in the face of his paralysis touched her deeply. She brought some homemade soup and carefully poured half a bowl. “Drink some soup first to settle your stomach. Later, you need rehab department for recovery training. The doctor said that with active rehabilitation, your condition will gradually improve…” Although Gary was still physically weak, his spirits were much better, and his mind was clear. He didn’t reach for the soup Diana brought over. Instead, he suddenly looked toward the door of the hospital room

Diana followed his gaze and noticed someone standing outside the door. However, the person didn’t come in, only cracked the door open slightly.

Confused, Diana set the bowl on the nightstand and went to investigate.

That’s weird…” Just as Diana approached, the person turned and hurriedly left.

She was about to chase after, but her attention was caught by a small trinket left at the doorway. Glancing at the silver necklace glinting in the light, she looked up again at the figure hurriedly leaving.

It was Courtney?

to pick up the familiar silver necklace. It was the same one Courtney had

hesitate and handed the necklace back to Gary. “I think she came to apologize. This wasn’t

who chased their desires with a fiery passion that sometimes bordered on ruthlessness. It was no

or wrong. It was just different choices made by different

weakly took over the silver necklace. This time, he didn’t grip it tightly but let the necklace slide through his rough palm and drop to

a bit of surprise, but Gary said nothing. He lowered

office, discussing some matters with the attending physician in charge of her rehabilitation.

voice laced with urgency Stephanie, I think I just saw

slight frown as if she were pondering something, but she didn’t ask

and raised her voice, looking more sincere this

responded nonchalantly.

Stephanie had been daydreaming a lot lately. Maybe something was bothering her.

said that Courtney was detained for some legal matters and needs to cooperate with an investigation, Molly continued. “By the way, did your know Jessica is now wanted‘ Apparently, she fled abroad. It’s all because Claire had a

repeated the name, feeling a distant sense of

Stephanie’s blank expression, burst out, “Jessica got what she deserved. She was never one to play nice,

so much and they couldn’t even remember her

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this way, Molly felt that all of

and guess what? I heard Claire got out of the mental hospital and agreed to divorce Kevin. Molly’s voice rose

fiery indignation,

so worked up?” Two figures slowly approached them. The one in front, Scott, had his eyes fixed on the excited girl,

the