Laurel blinked. "...Didn't you just meet her yesterday? I assumed you knew."
Joshua's dark eyes swept over Laurel's face, his expression unreadable.
"Who says chatting for two minutes means you automatically learn the other person's name?
Laurel, you're acting a bit strange."
Laurel's heart skipped a beat, and her carefully neutral expression almost cracked.
...
Stella sat quietly in the living room, waiting.
Before long, Laurel and Joshua walked out.
Laurel offered an apologetic smile. "Ms. Cameron, I'm so sorry to keep you waiting."
Stella hadn't actually waited that long. Joshua had asked for ten minutes, but it had barely been five.
She stood up. "It's fine. I didn't realize you had a guest today, Ms. Quinn. I apologize for dropping by unannounced."
Just as Laurel was about to speak, Joshua cut in. "I thought you two were close friends?
Why do you keep calling each other Ms. Quinn and Ms. Cameron?"
Both Stella and Laurel stiffened simultaneously.
Joshua looked back and forth between them. "Are you guys really good friends?"
Stella was speechless.
Laurel was speechless.
When they used to work together, Stella knew Joshua had a razor-sharp tongue, but because he had always been firmly on her side, she had never been on the receiving end of it.
Now, she was getting a front-row seat to just how difficult he could be.

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The readers' comments on the novel: The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance
Really 🥺 is this the end...
2043 has no wording...
The author needs to bring Joshua and Star back together! And the same people always trying to take her down is getting old...
Oh come on! This is ridiculous, why can’t you let Stella finally be happy with Joshua. I’m done with this story....
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The same rotation blaming Stella trying to get her destroyed. Isn't the writer tired of writing the same foolishness overand over again? This is exhausting....
Can’t wait to see what joshua will do...
Why would the author of this book do that to Stella? Such cruelty!...
So many chapters are incomplete. Missing pages. Hard to get continuity...