Chapter 69

"Charles, you've got to be careful with Stella. That woman... her mind's full of dark stuff. I still don't get how she could even hurt someone as young as Olivia." "She triggered Olivia's illness, and she's always hanging around Edward like they're plotting something behind your back. Everything she's done was just so she wouldn't have to divorce you—she'd rather drag everyone down with her." By the time Isabelle got to this point, tears were already streaming down her face, and she let out a weak cough, like just talking about it was too much for her. "Charles, the plagiarism case—it was originally pinned on Stella, no doubt about that. But then she somehow got Ethan hospitalized... and walked away clean. Only, the public wasn't buying her story like she'd hoped." "So what does she do? She goes and stages her own injury—sets someone up to hurt her hand. Thing is, there's no way to actually prove any of it now." She finished talking, then slumped to the ground, shaking like a leaf. One