‘Her?’
“Who are you talking about?” Stella asked while frowning.
Keegan did not speak for a long time. Just when Stella thought he had fallen asleep, he softly said, “My mother.”
Stella was stunned for a moment. Keegan never spoke ill of Dahlia in front of her when he was sober. He held onto traditional concepts whereby elders were to be respected no matter how evil they could be. He would never say anything like that in front of others.
Stella could see Dahlia’s eccentricity, even as an outsider. Hence, it was very likely that Keegan noticed it too. For example, Dahlia was swiping Keegan’s cards non-stop when she went to Europe with her friends for a month last year.
Keegan was a VIP in the bank, so they arranged for someone to deliver his monthly private account statements to him every month. Stella often signed for them because she habitually kept tabs on their financials. She would jot down their expenses, including food, luxuries, daily necessities, gifts for weddings, funerals, etc. That way, they could track how much they were spending and balance everything out.
Keegan’s bank account was sucked dry when Dahlia went on her trip. She had spent more than 10 million dollars in that month alone. The statement from the bank clearly showed all of the expenses. Dahlia spent more than half of the money in duty-free stores and a few luxury places. She even stocked up on a few things, such as skin care products worth ten thousand dollars. Stella understood if Dahlia had bought two to three bottles of skincare. However, she purchased 20 to 30 bottles in one go.
Stella found her behavior strange, but she knew it would not be easy to tell Keegan about it. It would also seem highly inappropriate since Dahlia was her mother-in-law. So, she did not say anything and sent the bill to Keegan after jotting down the monthly expenses.
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