The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 358

Marvin was the future heir of The Connolly Group. Yet here he was, unable to handle a spat between kids, coming home in tears. Neville thought, maybe he really wasn't cut out to take over the family legacy.

It was one of the reasons Neville never intervened, not even when he saw Marvin get hurt because of Keen. He figured the boy would have to toughen up on his

own.

Neville's way of raising Marvin had its ups and downs. On one hand, he was grooming the next head of the Connolly family-nothing wrong with that. But emotionally, Neville was distant, almost cold.

So when he saw Stella worrying that Marvin might be bullied, Neville couldn't help but chuckle.

"Star, trust me, Marvin's usually the one doing the bullying. No one's going to push him around. That kid's tougher than he looks."

The truth was, Marvin had a streak of coldness running deep in his bones. He only cared about people or things that mattered to him. For everything else, he was shockingly indifferent-hardly like a child at all.

Remembering the environment Marvin grew up in, Neville could only sigh quietly to himself.

Stella, for her part, thought Neville was just trying to comfort her.

press the issue. "If anything happens with

Neville wired money into Stella's account-right on schedule. She'd told him, more than once, that it wasn't necessary; she genuinely liked Marvin and didn't need to be paid to look after

she'd blown through was long gone, but with a few more months of caring for Marvin, Stella joked she'd be set

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a group of kids standing off to the

he were contagious, hustled

be friendly with Marvin now kept their distance, scattering as

unreadable, and walked straight

teachers exchanged looks tinged with regret. None

was the teachers or the other kids, everyone avoided Marvin, leaving

an island-isolated from the

into the classroom and immediately saw Marvin sitting by himself, staring at a book of English vocabulary

reasons nobody explained, Marvin had suddenly become a

didn't know why, but seeing Marvin unhappy filled him with

over, barely able to hide his smug

really like? Is that why nobody wants to talk to

knew exactly how it felt to be left out. That time in his life had been nothing short of a nightmare-all because