Chapter 874 Diana Will Trust Her
Steven's voice was deep and smooth. "I'll give you two million dollars. Investigate it and tell Diana the results. Diana only showed her design to me. Over the past two weeks, I've only seen Queenie twice. The last time was from a distance. She didn't have a chance to take my phone. I don't understand how the designs were stolen."
Luna stared at him. He didn't seem to be lying.
Diana, however, had always believed Steven gave the designs to Queenie.
"But from what I know about you, you've always had a habit of giving Diana's things to Queenie. Those two years, though I wasn't with Diana, I was always protecting her. I saw her cry for you, suffer because of you. I honestly wanted to kill you back then."
Luna shot him a cold glare, her voice sharp, laced with barely concealed anger.
Steven felt a pang of helplessness.
"A few days ago," he explained, "after Diana finished the designs, we were at home. She sent me the sketches on her phone, and I saved them on mine. The only other possibility is that our phones were hacked."
"I planned to launch the new designs, The Flowers, representing spring, summer, autumn, and winter, after the competition. Diana has already completed the entire series, and I love it."
He also wanted to know the truth. He wanted to know if Queenie somehow set them up.
He felt this woman was relentless, more irritating than a swarm of flies.
Even Steven could misjudge people sometimes.
Luna frowned, noticing the weariness in his demeanor. "You can investigate this yourself. If your phone was hacked, wouldn't you be able to tell?"
Steven's tech skills weren't bad either.
"I already checked," he said, shaking his head. "I found nothing."
"So you suspect Diana's phone was hacked?"
Steven smiled faintly. "I never said that."
Luna thought for a moment. She felt the truth needed to come out for Diana's sake.
"I'll start investigating Queenie tomorrow. I want to see what tricks you're trying to play."
Luna still didn't believe Steven.
Steven was momentarily stunned but said nothing.
He knew Luna was unwilling to believe him, but the truth was very important to him.
Besides, whatever she uncovered, Diana would trust her.
Diana spent the night in the lab, tirelessly working on the medicine.
By morning, she emerged, exhausted.
Tom was waiting at the door. He frowned when he saw her pale face. "You couldn't wait until today to do this? Skipping a good night's sleep makes you look terrible."
Diana smiled wearily.
She couldn't sleep. After everything that happened yesterday, her mind wouldn't settle.
She wanted to break free from Steven's orbit, to find her own refuge where she could finally breathe.
But escape felt impossible. She couldn't sleep when she went back. When she was agitated, she couldn't sleep as well, but she could work seriously, using work to numb herself.
She raised the three capsules she held. "Tom, the medicine is ready. I'll deliver it to Paige and the others."
Tom grinned. "Give Ms. Sutton's dose to me. I'll take it to her."
Diana raised an eyebrow. "Why you?"
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