The Apology from My Ex and His Mistress novel Chapter 117

Stephanic took a glass of champagne, nodded to say hi, and then let the siblings talk. She went to find a place to get something to eat and waited for Leonard to rest.

She had barely taken a couple of steps when Estrella suddenly called out to her, “Stephanie.”

Before Stephanie could say anything, Maxwell frowned a little and corrected. “It’s sister–in–law.”

Stephanie didn’t care about it either, since she wasn’t going to be one for long.

“Sorry, sister–in–law.” Estrella corrected herself right away and said, “I just remembered something.”

Stephanic thought it was strange. Estrella was studying abroad in Groena, and before she went, she was always proud and never liked. talking to her. Now she actually wanted something from her?

“What’s wrong?” Stephanie stopped and asked.

“Here’s the thing.” Estrella glanced at Maxwell, then smiled and said, “At our Daflar University, there was always a legend going around.”

“A consortium in Groena had controlled a certain high–tech for years, and its core barrier was one of a kind in the world. A few years ago, this technical barrier was broken by the Humphrey Group in one go. Now the situation was split in two, with us, the Humphrey Group, and that group each taking half the market at home and abroad.”

“I heard that back then, Max personally took people and technology to

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Groena for negotiations and got the cooperation contract.”

“But…”

Estrella looked at Maxwell with nothing but admiration in her eyes, but when she turned to Stephanie, there was a strange light in her eyes.

“Sister–in–law, you know what, the most talked–about gossip at our school was actually another one.”

Estrella took a step toward Stephanie and said, “There were rumors that the current boss of the foundation, Mr. Welch, fooled around, kept making promises and then backing out, messed with tons of partners. but the contract he gave the Humphrey Group was actually real. I heard it was because he made a bet with someone and lost.”

“I heard the person he lost to was you, Stephanie.”

Maxwell frowned a little and walked up to Stephanie.

“Estrella.” Maxwell said coldly.

“Oh Max, I was just gossiping a bit.” Estrella laughed and said. “Did you know, when I was in Groena, so many people asked me about this. Now that I finally met your wife today, what’s wrong with asking her?”

After she finished, she looked at Stephanie and smiled, saying, “Don’t you think so, sis–in–law?”

“It was clearly our group, the Humphrey Group, that developed the technology first, and then we took it to negotiate with the Welch Group. How did it end up becoming some tabloid rumor? Tell me, aren’t my classmates kind of dumb?”

“Especially that Mr. Welch, he was good–looking, but his personality was really scary. Back in Groena, when he was fooling around in his early days, he actually saw blood. How could he have signed a contract

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just because he lost a bet?”

“Later, there were even rumors that after he lost that bet, he totally changed his personality, ended up as the dark horse in the family fight, and turned into the head of the corporation he is now.”

Estrella spoke lightly, but her eyes kept watching Stephanie.

She just stood there, quietly watching Stephanic, who had her eyes slightly down.

“Alright, since we knew it was just some gossip, why talk so much about it, right Max?” Maybe because they had been standing there for a while, someone walked over.

Leonard had three sons and two daughters.

Maxwell’s dad was the second son, Estrella’s dad was the third son.

The person who came was the younger son of the eldest son’s family. born a bit later than Maxwell, Raul Humphrey.

Raul smiled at Maxwell and Stephanie, nodded, took a sip of his champagne, and said, “Max, sis–in–law.”

It looked like they were speaking up for Stephanie, but everything they said was a trap.

As long as you went along with what he said and did, you would have confirmed the thing about taking the Humphrey family’s honor.

“What’s it to you if I talk to Max?” Estrella rolled her eyes.

She and Raul never got along, but she actually got along pretty well with Maxwell.

She just didn’t like Stephanie.

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She hated those women who just clung to Maxwell, but she thought if Maxwell liked Stephanie, that was his choice. No matter how much she looked down on Stephanie, at most she just ignored her.

Even, as long as it was in front of her cousin, she was still kind of nice to Stephanie. That was her pride as the daughter of the Humphrey family.

These rumors had already been going around in Groena and at her undergrad and grad schools. People always liked to gossip, and stuff like this happened all the time. She hadn’t cared before, not until that thing happened.