The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 942

Leonard arched an eyebrow. "Oh?"

Sellers wasn't the type to believe in coincidences-he knew better.

He shot Leonard a look, then answered the ringing phone.

"Mr. Gardner, how can I help you?"

Joshua was sitting on a private jet, a satellite phone in hand, his tone cool and measured. "Tell Leonard to let Stella go. If he doesn't, the Gardner family and the Lerman family will be at war. There'll be no backing down."

Sellers froze, instinctively glancing at Leonard.

"Mr. Gardner, I'm not sure I understand-"

But Joshua cut him off, his voice sharp and cold. "I know you're together. Put Leonard on."

Sellers hesitated, then passed the phone to Leonard.

How on earth did the head of the Gardner family know Stella? What exactly was their relationship?

Leonard took the phone from Sellers, unfazed. "Mr. Gardner, what can I do for you?"

words. "Let Stella go. I'll owe you

too well that Simone had her sights set on the Gardner family's patriarch, dreaming of marrying Joshua. Yet, for reasons unknown, Joshua kept his

call, things were clearly more complicated

man like Joshua, interested in a divorced woman with a child—a secondhand mother, so to speak? What exactly was it

glanced down at Stella, doubt flickering in his eyes. Did she really have

played it cool. "I'm not even in Novaris right now. Maybe you've

playing dumb. You know exactly what

smoothly. "Mr.

a

them at

you

then, Leonard heard a voice in the background on

and

stared at the dead line, his face darkening. Joshua

***

"Mr. Gardner, will this really work? What

holding

knew full well

a location from

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