Chapter 65


    Ste pressed her lips and didn’t answer.


    She couldn’t understand it indeed, but she wasn’t in the mood to care about the Conrads’ family


    business.


    Justin added, “I guess rence hasn’t told you something before. He’s just my half-brother from a


    different mother.”


    Ste was startled, losing her tongue for a moment.


    “rence is my father’s illegitimate son.” Justin operated the wheelchair to turn around and said


    calmly, “When I was ten, I had a car ident, and I couldn’t stand up again. The Conrad family needs


    a sessor, so my father took rence in. He was only seven at that time. My mother always thought


    that rence has snatched something that should originally belong to me. Hence, she disfavors


    rence a lot.”


    As he spoke, Justin smiled. “rence shouldn’t be med for my car ident, but my mother went too


    extreme. All I could do was to make them get along. Additionally, after rence became the CEO of


    Conrad Group, thepany developed rapidly. Now even my father started to be afraid of him. They


    are so eager to let Annie marry Horace Jason because they wanted to borrow the power from the


    Jason family so that they could transfer the shares from rence’s hands.”


    Although Justin didn’t tell her anything too straightforwardly, Ste understood something. rence


    was an illegitimate child of the Conrad family and he didn’t have a good life in this family. On the


    surface, he was the powerful CEO of Conrad Group, but in fact, his father was afraid that he would be


    out of control and aimed to get someone else to rece him.


    Suddenly, Ste understood why rence’s parents would let her marry into their family no matter how


    much rence was against it.Belongs to (N)?vel/Drama.Org.


    What they truly wanted was the baby in her belly.


    Ste subconsciously put her hand on her belly, cold sweat oozing on her back in fear.


    No wonder that rence wasn’t willing to have the baby. If the Conrad family knew that she was


    pregnant, Ste believed that they would try every possible means to...


    Justin added, “I watched rence grow up. Although he looks aloof and has a sharp tongue, he isn’t


    so scheming and ruthless as other men in this circle. In such a ce where others might skin him alive,


    he always keeps sobering and knows what he wants.


    “Probably it’s because he has grown up in such a different environment, rence always evilly sees


    people. Hence, even if he truly cares about someone, he always speaks harsh words to the person.


    Sometimes, you can’t judge him from his words, but you should look at what he has done, which


    represents his true thoughts.”


    Ste wanted to retort him that rence didn’t do anything better than what he spoke.


    All he had done to her were nothing that a human could do.


    Ste realized that Justin, as rence’s brother, was still too generous to rence.


    Seeing that Ste kept silent, Justin continued, “I know it’s quite inappropriate for me to tell you such


    words, but I don’t think rence would tell you those things himself. I just hope you don’t


    misunderstand him, which would lead you both...”


    Ste smiled and interrupted him, “Mr. Conrad, I know what you are trying to tell me. Thank you for


    trusting me so much and telling me the biggest secret of your Conrad family. However, rence


    Conrad and I are divorced. No matter if he looks aloof but is warm-hearted or he has a harsh tongue


    but is soft-hearted, it has nothing to do with me. Mr. Conrad, please rest assured. I won’t tell anyone


    else anything you’ve told me.”


    “Justin, the servant told me you came here. You...”


    Joanna was talking to Justin while walking towards them. Then she saw Ste standing behind Justin,


    her face turning cold instantly.


    Ste said, “Good evening, Mr. Conrad.”


    Joanna cast a nce at Justin and looked over at her. “It seems you’ve made up your mind already.”


    “Mrs. Conrad, when you came to my officest time, I’ve said that Horace and I are not in such a


    rtionship as you’ve thought. I can’t do anything about the marriage between Annie Conrad and him.”


    Ste was about to pull out the envelope, but Justin said, “Ste, rence didn’t give you anything


    when you divorce. Please take this money aspensation from the Conrad family to you.”


    It was fine if he hadn’t said so. However, upon hearing his words, Ste felt that the envelope was


    burning her hands.


    Without hesitation, Ste immediately said, “No...”


    However, her refusal was toote.


    “It turns out you came here today for this.”


    She heard the man’s cold an ironic voice behind her.


    Ste was speechless.


    Joanna obviously was unwilling to meet rence. As soon as he came over, she turned around and


    left.


    Justin heaved a sigh in silence. “rence, you’ve misunderstood her. Ste didn’te here for this. I


    was forcing her to keep the money.”


    rence stood motionlessly and upright. His tone was extremely indifferent. “You don’t need to put on


    good words for her. I know what kind of person she is.”


    “rence...”


    Before Justin could finish his words, the butler came over. “Excuse me, Mr. Justin. Mr. Conrad wants to


    see you.”


    Justin said before leaving the garden, “rence, please talk nice.”


    In an instant, there were two of them left in the big garden.


    Ste slowly turned around and pressed her lips slightly. “Hi, Mr. Conrad.”


    rence cast her a nce and his gaze fell on the envelope in her hands. “How much this time? Is it


    enough to pay back how much you owed me?”


    Ste clenched her fingers tightly, her face turning pale.


    “I agree with your words -- we’ve divorced. I don’t want to see you again either. Give me back my


    money. Don’t ever show up in front of me again.”


    rence’s tone was quite calm. He even didn’t mock her, but his words made her frozen as if her


    bones were chilled as well.


    Seeing that Ste didn’t answer him for a long while, rence said again, “Why? Haven’t they given


    you enough money? You asked me for the half property of Conrad Group. How can you be so satisfied


    with such a small amount of money?”


    After a long moment of silence, Ste answered in a t tone, “Mr. Conrad, stop making wild guesses.


    The money in my hands was offered by Mrs. Conrad to ask me to leave Horace. It’s has nothing to do


    with you at all.”


    rence was choked up by her words.


    Ste knew that he said those words to poke at her sore spot, but she could kill him at his sore spot as


    well, couldn’t she?


    As she expected, rence''s expression changed to extremely gloomy. He emanated coldness all over


    his body.


    Ste felt sickened. She wasn’t in the mood to be stalemated with him any longer. She put the


    envelope on the tea table. “I’m putting it here. Mr. Conrad, I don’t give a shit if you want to send my


    message or not. You can take that I’ve kept the money. Anyway, you guys always prejudged others


    with your own thoughts.”


    When Ste just took a step, she heard rence’s cold voice behind her. “You don’t care about the


    money so much, but does your brother know it?”


    Ste paused her pace, turned around, and looked at him. “What do you mean?”


    rence curled up his lips. “Why don’t you guess with your pure and innocent mind?”


    Ste was speechless.


    She couldn’t help cursing the wretched man.