Late at night, a cargo ship set sail from the Blue Bay, carrying Stephen to Tahiti in the South Pacific.
Stephen stood at the stern of the ship and felt a wave of emotions as he watched the city grow further and further away in the night. He was once a trusted aide of Charlie's father, Curtis. Twenty years ago, Curtis had given him two tasks. The first was to protect Charlie's safety after his own incident, and the other was to obey all orders from Ashley. Over the years, although Stephen had remained and served as a butler for the Wades, everything he did was actually based on Ashley's instructions.
For more than ten years, even Jeremiah did not know whether his grandson, Charlie, was alive or dead. This was because Curtis did not make any arrangements for Stephen to inform Jeremiah about Charlie's situation. Ashley was still the one controlling everything behind the scenes.
It was only when Ashley felt that the time was right that she let Stephen confess Charlie's situation to Jeremiah. Jeremiah felt guilty toward his son and daughter-in-law, and because of Charlie's troubled fate, he bought Empire Group to make things up to Charlie and gave Stephen a black card with ten billion dollars to give to Charlie, which led to everything that happened later.
Although Stephen felt reluctant to leave Eastcliff so suddenly, he also knew that leaving temporarily was the best solution for now. The only thing that made him feel guilty was leaving Charlie without saying goodbye.
At this moment, Charlie was tossing and turning alone in one of the guest rooms in the Wades' old house.
Stephen's sudden departure made him understand one thing. Stephen was not serving Jeremiah or Curtis. If Stephen was serving his father, he wouldn't have left today. Instead, he would have helped Charlie figure out who Raymond was and where he was.
After all, Raymond was probably his father's friend, and Stephen was his father's old subordinate. There was no need for them to hide anything from each other. The only conclusion was that Stephen was actually serving a third person unknown to himself. That person didn't want him to know about their existence through Stephen, so they had made Stephen suddenly disappear, leaving Charlie with nowhere to verify or inquire.

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