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“Really?” Roxanne’s eyes were shining.
But Maxwell just lowered his eyes a little.
“Mm.” he replied.
“So.” Roxanne felt totally satisfied, her eyes were all on that pigeon blood red pendant. “Max, did you buy this pendant at the auction just for me before?”
Maxwell still didn’t look at Roxanne.
He looked up at the car window.
Outside the car window was the quiet night of the neighborhood, and the dim streetlights cast long shadows of the trees.
In a scene like this, everything felt a bit lonely.
“Yeah.” Maxwell answered softly again.
In that moment, he suddenly got it.
Suddenly I understood, over a month ago, when he said, “My child, as a Maxwell, deserves the most expensive diamond.”
The reason why Stephanie was angry.
Maxwell didn’t say much, just put the safe with the Tanzanite in the
car.
Tanzanite, he didn’t plan to give it to Roxanne.
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This was why he took a picture of the pigeon blood ruby pendant.
As long as he gave the pendant to Roxanne, he just needed a lame excuse to keep Tanzanite.
But even at that moment, Maxwell didn’t understand why he needed to find an excuse.
He did things and clearly never needed a reason.
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On the other side, Stephanie had already gotten off the helicopter and was now in the Maybach that came to take her back to the hospital.
The car drove smoothly, and she curled up in the back seat.
“How is it? Are you feeling okay?” Jeremiah looked at her worriedly.
Stephanie just shook her head a little to say it’s nothing, and looked out at the street through the car window.
A charity dinner took a lot out of her, and now she felt more mentally tired than physically weak.
It was already late at night.
The strong wind blew the willow catkins on the street up into the air, spiraling upward again and again. It looked like a small whirlpool.
When was the last time I was this drained?
It seemed to be at Montester four years ago.
On the big ship at sea, during that battle of two lights, with drinks flowing, who held her hand tight and raised the sign again and again?
In the wavering of others, I started a two–lamp battle between the other
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two.
Watching the two of them argue fiercely in his invisible hands, easily burning away half the city’s fortune, he held her hand and said to her softly:
“Steph, fighting in the business world, letting emotions take over was a big no–no, just like them right now.”
That year they worked together, teamed up with others to stir up the double lamp battle, used up the target’s money ahead of time, so when the target item showed up, they could get it more easily.
At last, holding the auction item, they got on the small boat that had come early to pick them up. When the big ship started to get chaotic, she just stood by his side, watching quietly.
The wind on the deck was really strong that night, and he blocked most of the sea breeze for her.
He once said he wouldn’t say I love you easily, but she was in his plans for the future.
At that time, she thought that was the most beautiful love talk.
She also used to think that good love was when two people were evenly matched and moved forward together, so she worked really hard too.
But later…
Stephanie closed her eyes.
Later, Roxanne showed up.
Jeremiah told the driver to drive carefully, then started scrolling through his phone
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The more I looked at him, the angrier I got
Stephanie sensed his mood and turned around to ask him. “What’s Wrong?
Jeremiah didn’t want to say
But Stephanie just looked at him
In the end, he also understood that even if he didn’t say it, with all the marketing all over the internet now, she would figure it out soon
anyway
So I handed the phone to Stephanic.
Stephanie took them and flipped through the stuff.
Jeremiah stood by, his face twisted with anger: “What the heck are they saying online!”
“They should have praised you for daring to bid against Maxwell who engaged in unlimited bidding and not losing in the mind games, isn’t that impressive? Why is all the praise for Roxanne?”
“Did the rumor say you faked your donation too?”
“That’s so funny, that Tanzanite was yours, you definitely paid way more than Roxanne, the one who was really mooching was Roxanne, right!”
The more Jeremiah talked, the angrier he got.
“We the Conway Group didn’t invite Roxanne at all, she just forced her way in herself!”
“I just asked, she didn’t make any more donations after that, she just followed Maxwell.”
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