The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

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Chapter 81 Checkmate, Mr Keene

Whether it was about Rianne or Eddie, truth be told, it should have been Ethan and the Reed family begging Stella all along. But the reality? These people were playing both good cop and bad cop with her.

Ethan lifted his cold eyes and glanced at her. “What do you want?”

“What do I want?” Stella laughed, “Since you’ve already found out about my studio, I’m sure you also know how much I earn annually?

These people… always trying to solve everything with money. If that was not enough, they even tried to threaten her with it.

She thought back to how smug they were when they cut off her cards. The audacity of it all. Now? It was almost laughable. Ethan’s face darkened by the second.

Stella met his gaze calmly. I make several hundred thousand a year, Mr. Keene. What can’t I afford myself? And I’m not some gold digger, chasing what’s out of my reach. The money I earn is enough to handle every single mess in my life. So tell me, what do you think I need?”

That sentence alone was enough to shut down anyone who thought money could solve everything. Including Ethan, who found himself utterly speechless.

He narrowed his eyes. “Bring the two of them into her treatment team immediately, and I’ll sever all ties with her. Is that what

you want?”

“You think that’s what I’m after?” Stella raised an eyebrow.

set her water glass down,

in this matter. As if if she

it sure as hell wouldn’t be you. You’ve got a bad temper, treat me like crap, and you’re clearly still hung up on someone else. I make

blank. A buzzing filled his skull. The veints in his temple pulsed

no memory of how he

moment he stepped out, he called Jason. “I don’t care what it takes. Make her studio go

way she talked to him and that smug look on her face, if all came from that damn studio. She could earn her own

came through the line, cautious. “Sir, it’s… not that

Ethan’s tone

several notices, but… all the responses were

“Dares not?” E

was

were refusing to drop her? Could it be that man behind her was far m

Jason added,

powerful than uw

Checkmate,

the Keene family to my face in

it’s the handiwork of the

not need to say it. The facts were

the studio. Now, they could not even touch her studio. Who would believe there