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Stella's question caught them both off guard.

"Are you and Joshua close?" she pressed. Her mind was still reeling, but her instincts were sharp. Jake wouldn't have taken such a huge risk to help someone he barely knew.

"Well..." Jake, a man accustomed to high-stakes situations, felt a bead of cold sweat form on his brow. His mind raced, trying to invent a plausible story.

Just then, Harold spoke up. "Forget it, Jake. We should just tell her."

"But-"

"No buts," Harold cut him off. "There are some things Ms. Cameron deserves to know." He turned to Stella. "Ms. Cameron, could we speak privately for a moment?"

Joshua's surgery would take hours. Stella glanced at Antoney, who gave her a slight nod of encouragement. She followed Harold and Jake to a quiet corner of the hallway.

"The truth is," Harold began, "Joshua was the one who arranged that five-billion- dollar investment for you. He and Jake go way back. They... they both used to work for a man named Mr. J."

Jake shot Harold a nervous look.

Stella was stunned. "So... Joshua was the one who got me the funding?" No wonder the deal had always felt too good to be true. Even after using the money,

a part of her had feared it was some elaborate scam.

"Yes," Jake confirmed. "Jo-Joshua

went to Mr. to call in a favor. Mr. J owed him, and Joshua used that debt to secure the five billion for you. It was meant as a gift, Ms. Cameron He only framed it as an investment because he was worried you wouldn't accept it otherwise."

A wave of emotion washed over Stella. A favor worth five billion dollars was a debt heavier than life itself.

"The money was yours to do with as you pleased," Harold continued gently. "But

of all the people to help, why did it have to be Foreman?"

When Foreman had fallen into Leonard's trap, Stella had cleverly turned the tables and used the opportunity to buy out Israel's company at rock bottom. But she had also used the remaining funds to bail Foreman out, giving The Richards Group the lifeline it needed to survive the onslaught from Leonard and Israel. In the end, Foreman's company emerged not only unscathed but stronger than ever.

Joshua despised Foreman, but he would never dictate what Stella did

with something he had given her. So when she chose to help Foreman, he Check latest chapters at F?nd-Novel.net

had safe nothing..

to see that same man turn around and try to kill him...

Stella's eyes flickered with guilt. "Foreman helped me a great deal in the past. I couldn't just stand by and watch him fail. And... at the time, I thought he was the one who invested the money."

At the mention of that treacherous snake, Jake couldn't help but grit his teeth. "Even if you'd known the money wasn't from him, you still would have helped him, wouldn't you?"