When Craig Raymond and Rosemary Sanders celebrated their first birthday, Beck Sanders flew back from North America to attend the celebration. He had nned toe with Dn Sanders, but Dn had to change his flight when the girl he brought back from the


    base suddenly fell ill with a fever. Beck ended up flying alone and took the opportunity to meet with some distant rtives of the Sanders family.


    Ever since Augus Sanders fell ill, these rtives had been harboring their own agendas. If it weren''t for the shares being transferred to Maja, the Sanders family might have descended into chaos. Now that Augus was recovering and the shares had returned to Dn and Beck, these distant rtives seemed to warm up again. Beck, however, didn''t show much enthusiasm toward them.


    That was until they found Ste Sanders a few days ago. Beck hadn''t been in touch with her side of the family, given she was only rted by marriage, sharing the Sanders surname by chance. She had a son and a daughter, and when Tomas Sanders was still around, he often visited the elder Sanders.


    After the elder Sanders encountered trouble, it was Ste''s outcry that helped avert a disaster. However, Ste disappeared afterward. The Sanders family had tried to find her, to no avail. Tomas believed Ste''s disappearance was his fault, so before he died, he told Augus that if Ste were ever found, the family should give her one percent of the shares as a thank you.Property ? 2024 N0(v)elDrama.Org.


    Given the scale of the Sanders family''s empire, one percent of the shares was a fortune, enough for Ste to livefortably for the rest of her life-wealth beyond what most could earn in several lifetimes.


    However, Beck was skeptical about the sudden reappearance of this so-called daughter, suspecting she was after the shares. He went to verify her identity, and indeed, Ste was a lost member of the Sanders family. Despite only being one percent, Beck wasn''t keen on just handing over the shares. He had a hunch that Ste wasn''t genuine, that she had an ulterior motive for integrating into the Sanders family. Yet, he had no proof, and with Craig and Rosemary''s birthday bash about to start, he had to leave North America and head to Greenfield temporarily.


    Arriving at Greenfield Gardens, Beck still couldn''t see eye to eye withn. He hugged the two little ones but quickly brought up Ste''s situation to Maja.


    "Beck, you did a paternity test. There shouldn''t be any doubt, right?" Maja asked.


    Beck frowned deeply, showing a seriousness he seldom disyed. "Maja, you don''t understand, there''s something off about this woman."


    "How so?" Maja probed.


    Beck, known in North America as a


    generous yboy, had never


    described a woman as being "off"


    before. "The first time I met her, she


    was the mistress of a professor."


    Maja, about to drink water, nearly choked upon hearing this. But she quickly tried to find an excuse for Ste. "Could there be some misunderstanding?"


    "No. She was quite open about it, admitting she just wanted to pass her paper. The professor was so smitten he couldn''t see straight. You know the Sanders family has extensive investments in North


    America, including sponsoring


    school event where the top prize was a hundred thousand dors. She seduced the professor, secured the top spot, and was nearly named the outstanding graduate. But just before graduation, it came out that her thesis was giarized. Her jewelry design was a copy, and her affair with the professor was exposed. To quell the scandal, the school expelled her. Then, suddenly, she became ''Ste.'' What do you make of that?"


    "But how does that rte to her being Ste?" Maja questioned.


    "It does. She has a son and a daughter, Ste, Coincidentally, Morgan and Ste were at the same school, and his girlfriend was the ringleader in bullying Ste and the one who exposed her giarism. Ste wasn''t always called Ste; she was Ste Herrington. Then she changed herst name to Sanders. Isn''t it obvious she''s plotting revenge against Morgan by orchestrating all this?"


    Beck narrowed his eyes and scoffed. "When I get back, I''m going to expose her true colors. This woman is quite the schemer."