The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

Chapter 957

"Something happened?" Stella's expression flickered. “What's wrong with him?"

Abby, clearly delighted by the news of Leonard's misfortune, couldn't hide her excitement.

She said, "Early this morning, Leonard was attacked during the contract signing. It's all over the trending news."

"The Lerman family has some major business deal going on with Lythania. The signing today was a huge event-they even streamed it live, worldwide."

For a family as powerful as the Lermans, sealing a strategic partnership with a nation was hardly out of the ordinary. A global live stream was just business as usual.

Abby launched into a detailed retelling of what she'd seen in the trending video.

"Leonard-who knows if he was being chased by a hitman-showed up at the signing with a gash across his face and a leg injury. He actually rolled in on a wheelchair."

She glanced around, then lowered her voice conspiratorially. "Maybe it was Neville's people, helping you out behind the scenes."

Stella said nothing.

She knew all too well that Leonard's injuries-his face and his leg-were courtesy of her.

any details. For her, that chapter of her life was something she'd

one to run

on appearing in a wheelchair at such a crucial contract signing

of his way to kidnap her—

showed how arrogant

could abduct her and still walk away unscathed, that

attacked at the

sparkled with

video looked like something out of

to the chest-the place exploded into

and then pulling out her phone to show Stella the video she'd already downloaded, just

dying down. Of course-this was Novaris. No one was in a

itself was short-barely

hands with the Lythanian

chest, and

rushed to shield him, while chaos erupted. The audience scrambled for the exits, but some gutsy reporters kept filming, refusing to

video,

And not even

"They say a silencer was used. If you weren't standing right