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 Keen

was, Jasper wanted to knock Stella down a peg, to strip her of the protection Neville and Marvin offered. With

locked her out of her own properties, Neville had immediately arranged for her to move into one of his own apartments. Jasper realized that every time he schemed against Stella, not only did

he became the villain everyone loved to hate, nearly drowned by a tidal wave of online outrage. The Wilkinson

through the family's

to spin the whole incident as a manufactured scandal, claiming it was all just a publicity stunt, that they'd never meant to target Stella, the

had laid down the law: if Jasper stirred up trouble for Stella again, he'd deal with his

he'd caused, and all the money he'd burned, in the end it was Stella who

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

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

that whole incident with Keen being bullied, too. All so Keen would distance himself from Stella and become closer to

high-society party, then spread malicious rumors