The Heiress With Seven Secret Identies (Stella Shaw) novel Chapter 96

Chapter 96 The Jenston Conspiracy

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The Shaws exchanged a look. They understood. She needed time.

“Hey.” Kenneth stepped forward. “You went to see Jasper, didn’t you?”

Amber’s little incident had caused quite a stir. Kenneth had done some digging and found out Stella was at Azure General Hospital.

“Yeah.”

“Why?” Kenneth’s brow furrowed. “Did Aunt Nicole leave something for him?”

Stella shook her head. “I went to confirm if he’s my father.”

The Shaws went still.

Sylvie’s grip on her hand tightened. “And?”

“He is.”

Sylvie’s composure cracked. Tears spilled over. “Nicole met Jasper when she was three. They grew up together–attached at the hip. Everyone knew they’d end up together. They were supposed to have a beautiful life. And now they’re separated by death.”

Her voice broke. Bruce wrapped an arm around her shoulders, pulling her close.

“If Felix hadn’t backed out of that agreement, they’d have gotten married. They’d have been a family–a happy one. But now Nicole is…” Sylvie couldn’t finish. She buried her face in Bruce’s shoulder and sobbed.

The woman who ran multimillion–dollar deals, who never backed down in boardrooms–right now she was fragile as glass.

“Dad.” Frederick’s voice was gentle. “Grandpa’s not waking up anytime soon. You and Mom should go home. Rest.”

They’d been traveling for over ten hours. Exhaustion was written all over them.

Bruce nodded. “Frederick, your mother and I are heading back. Call us if anything changes.”

“Will do.”

The moment they left, Stella got straight to business.

“Frederick. The night Mom disappeared–you went looking for her, right? Tell me everything. Don’t leave anything out.”

“Let’s talk in the VIP lounge.”

They headed to a private room, Stella, Kenneth, Frederick, and Elias. Frederick locked the door behind them.

“Aunt Nicole was planning to run away with Jasper. Grandpa was furious–said he’d lock her in her room, wouldn’t let her out. But when he saw her climbing down from the second–floor balcony, risking her neck.

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Chapter 96 The Jenston Conspiracy

to keep that date…

Frederick paused, “He told security to look the other way. Pretend they didn’t see anything. That decision

haunted him. Still does,”

Stella listened, silent.

“Aunt Nicole waited for Jasper at the university gate. It was storming that night–hurricane warnings the whole city was shutting down. She waited four hours. Maybe longer. But Jasper never showed”

Frederick’s voice roughened. “She must’ve thought something happened to him. That he wouldn’t jus leave her there. So she went to Moore Manor.”

He swallowed hard. “In the middle of that storm, she stood at their gate. Begging them to let her see agen Begging. The whole city was talking about it by morning.

“Grandpa was furious. Told us not to go after her–said she needed to learn, needed to give up on Ja But I think… part of him hoped she would. That she’d finally move on. Even though Grandpa said not ap interfere, Kenneth and I took some guys and went anyway. Grandpa knew. He didn’t stop us.

“By the time we got there, she was gone. One of the Moore staff said she’d left with Jasper. That they d gone off together.”

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