Her Divorce, His Downfall (Sophia and Damian) novel Chapter 156

Chapter 156

Weston gave his shoulder a gentle, reassuring pat. “Damian, don’t overthink it. Your top priority right now is to recover.

“I’ve got everything covered out there. My media company under Dynasty Pictures will pick up any move they make, and I’ll alert you immediately.”

He hesitated for a moment, wrestling with his words before finally speaking up.

“Do you remember when you had Liam ask me to look into Stella? I’ve signed her to Nova Talent Agency. If we can’t get through to Sophia, what if we use Stella instead?

“Stella caused a huge scene in the Platinum Palace club’s VIP lounge for your wife. Those two were inseparable. She was devastated when she heard Sophia was dead, forced to work as a bottle girl, and nearly…”

Weston trailed off, the tips of his ears turning pink at the memory of that intimate night with Stella. He brushed past the incident and continued evenly.

“I saved her that night. What do you think will happen if we let her meet ‘Vivian“?”

“You saved her?” Lucas caught the key detail at once, sizing 11:32

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Weston up with a teasing grin.

“You played the hero for a ‘bottle girl‘ that night–you two must have hooked up. I don’t buy that nothing happened between you.”

“Shut your mouth,” Weston retorted instinctively, his gaze darting away.

The faint flush on his ears betrayed his fluster. “She was wasted and screaming that I was responsible for Sophia’s death. I was lucky she didn’t stab me. You know how much she hates guys like us.

“Remember the night Isabelle won the race? She stormed into Platinum Palace club with Sophia and Bella, tearing into every one of us like we were scum. You can’t have forgotten that.”

He dreaded the thought of Lucas and Damian finding out he’d abandoned a high–stakes New York project to rush to Atlanta and save Stella.

The teasing from Lucas alone was already unbearable,

He’d first approached Stella only at Damian’s request, tasked with digging up every unflattering detail on the little–known B–list actress.

Onge he’d sent all the raw information to Liam, he’d found 11:32

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himself unexpectedly drawn to her against his better judgment.

Weston knew Damian had wanted the dirt on Stella for a reason, even if it went unsaid.

Given Stella’s sisterly bond with Sophia, the material was almost certainly meant to pressure Sophia into complying.

It was hardly honorable, but such tactics were minor in their circle–Weston had done far worse.

Besides, Damian was his childhood friend, and loyalty to him came before anything else.

Seeing Damian broken and grievously wounded over Sophia, he’d brought Stella up without a second thought.

Damian remembered Stella all too well.

She’d been his wife’s closest friend and fiercest defender. On the anniversary of Elaine’s death, he’d skipped spending time with Sophia to take Isabelle to a drone show.

Later, Damian had come home apologetic, promising to make it up to her, but Sophia had refused his advances entirely, Furious, he’d answered Isabelle’s call and gone drinking at Platinum Palace club.

Moments later, Sophia had burst in with Stella and Bella at leg2

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side.

That sharp–tongued Stella had ripped into every man in the room with a string of cutting insults, impossible to forget.

He’d witnessed her venom firsthand and never doubted her way

with words.

It only proved how deeply she cared for Sophia, willing to fight anyone for her sake.

What would happen if Stella learned her best friend was alive?

The dirt on Stella locked in his study safe, and the videos of her working as a bottle girl stored on his cloud server–each one was a ticking time bomb, ready to detonate at any moment.

Sophia would surely panic if she thought he planned to make them public.

And there was Chloe, Sophia’s beloved young cousin, plus Dorothy and Connor–all people he could leverage,

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