Chapter 422

Stella abruptly cut him off. "You can keep your apologies, Mr. Wilkinson. Even if you said sorry, I wouldn't accept it.

What you've done can't be erased with a simple apology."

Jasper smirked, feigning indifference. "You said it yourself. Don't go back on your word."

"I won't," Stella replied with a calm smile. "But it's a shame, really."

Jasper's brows drew together. "A shame? What are you talking about?"

She looked him square in the eye. "If you'd confessed earlier, maybe things could have gone easier on you. But now... that ship has sailed. You've lost your chance."

Jasper scoffed, about to taunt her for her theatrics-when he noticed Stella's eyes shift toward the entrance.

A group of uniformed officers strode into the room and stopped right in front of Jasper.

"Mr. Wilkinson, we've received a report. You're under suspicion for breaking and entering, and willful property damage. Please come with us to cooperate with our investigation."

instinctively protested, "I didn't do

when he hesitated, the officers moved in to form a tight circle around him. "Mr. Wilkinson," one of them said, "we

being

scene.

need to ask

"Enjoy your moment, Stella. You'll pay for this. The higher you climb, the

through the crowd. But since he was an outsider, the event quickly resumed its normal

anxious, turned to Haynes. "Haynie, the police just took Jasper!

looking away, his voice icy and detached. "He

"But-"

her off, his gaze unreadable as it settled on her face. "Jasper's gotten far too arrogant. It's about

caught; she couldn't

Smashing up Stella's

it payback on her

what, Stella was still Haynes's ex-wife. To

to humiliate Haynes himself.

silently cursed Jasper's

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