The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 372

Jasper hesitated. "I admit, I couldn't stand that troublemaker always picking on Keen, so I did say something. But..."

He quickly added, "But I only spoke for myself I never used your name, Haynes. Maybe someone misunderstood."

Neville offered a cool smile. "Whether it was a misunderstanding or not, we can find out easily enough. Mr. O'Brien, you wouldn't be covering for your old friend, would you?"

Neville wasn't someone you could easily fool. He'd grown up with Haynes and Jasper; he could spot a lie from Jasper a mile away.

Haynes closed his eyes in disappointment. "Jasper, don't drag children into the affairs of adults. This time, you've really crossed a line."

Jasper's face paled. He knew there was no hiding the truth from Haynes if he decided to look into it.

small lesson, that's all. He's always bullying

protection Neville and Marvin offered. With Neville constantly stepping in, it was nearly impossible

one of his own apartments. Jasper realized that every

opinion turned on him so fiercely that he became the villain everyone loved to hate, nearly drowned by a tidal wave of online

so furious he'd actually dragged him through the family's old- school punishments. The welts on Jasper's back still hadn't

to spin the whole incident as a manufactured scandal, claiming

laid down the law: if Jasper stirred up

money he'd burned, in the end it was Stella who walked

was secretly working against him. Without their interference, getting rid of Stella would be as easy as squashing

use the same tactic that had isolated Keen, only this time, Marvin would be the

it was true-he'd engineered that whole incident with Keen being bullied, too. All so

friends to make Stella look foolish at a high-society party, then spread malicious rumors about her in