The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance

The Lerman Group... it was Leonard.

Stella's eyes narrowed ever so slightly. "Why did the Lerman Group suddenly launch an attack on the Richards Group?"

She couldn't believe Leonard was targeting the Richards Group just because Foreman had helped her. Leonard might be ruthless, but he was never impulsive or reckless. He disliked her, sure, but he wasn't the type to lash out at Foreman for no reason.

If anything, Haynes and Neville had done much more to help her than Foreman ever did. There was no way Leonard would skip over them just to go after Foreman.

Could it be... something's happened with Haynes too?

The thought barely finished forming before Stella picked up her office phone.

"Aicken, can you pull together all the major business news from the past few weeks and bring it to me? Right away, please."

Ten minutes later, Aicken walked in with a neatly organized stack of news clippings and reports.

Trust Aicken to be the consummate professional-everything was concise, clear, and highlighted the most important points.

Stella had always suspected Aicken was planted by the Williams family to keep an

her, but she couldn't deny

Stella quickly spotted a headline

Richards Group make a costly mistake, and that's when he

and Connolly Groups, there was no news-at

updates: everything looked steady. Only the Richards Group had hit a

voice broke her

talk to Mr. Richards? He's barely getting three or four hours of sleep a night and he hardly eats anymore. If this keeps up, his health will collapse And honestly, if it weren't for you," Mr. Richards wouldn't be in this situation

stopped abruptly, as if aware

snapped her gaze to him. "What

of panic. He sucked in a nervous

what's really

trying to dodge her. Finally, he spoke, voice

"Mistakes in business decisions

the time,

met

Lerman Group somehow got hold of the Richards Group's confidential information. A month ago, they teamed up with a company owned by Israel and set up a trap, targeting the