The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 1505

The feeling was so contradictory.

On one hand, he refused to believe that Stella could be Summer. On the other, he couldn't stop himself from seeking proof.

He simply couldn't accept that the artist he admired, the person he had been chatting with for so long, was his sworn enemy, Stella. He would have found it easier to accept if Summer had turned out to be a man or an old woman.

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The next day, Stella and Joshua sat across from each other in a restaurant.

After they ordered, Stella said, "Joshua, thank you so much for your help with this. I know you were put in a difficult position."

Joshua smiled. "Without your trust and cooperation, the plan would have been far from easy to pull off."

He looked at Stella and said softly, "Star, I was gambling too. If we had lost, we could have lost everything."

Stella shook her head. "I had no foundation, no leverage. To win big, I had to gamble. You can't just focus on the rewards without being willing to face the risks. It's the same as investing. The higher the potential return, the greater the risk. Without that gamble, turning things around wouldn't have been so easy."

Joshua asked, "You don't blame me for taking matters into my own hands?"

Stella smiled. "You won for me, didn't you? I'm not the type to get what I want and then complain about it."

An unreadable emotion flickered in Joshua's eyes.

After a moment, he said, "Star, you're developing the aura of a true leader. You make people willing to risk their lives for you, and you make them feel that being trusted by you is a blessing."

Stella's trust was reserved for Joshua alone. In fact, there was no one else she would trust so completely and without reservation. Not even Abby Murphy.

It wasn't that she thought Abby would betray her, but Abby's naive nature made her an easy target. She was the type who could be sold and still be counting the money for the person who sold her.

Stella asked, "Is there any reward you want?"

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