Aurora pulled a file from her nightstand drawer.


    "I''ve been looking into this for a long time. Dodging Joshua''s spies and informants cost me a lot of time, but I managed to dig up some highly useful intel.


    Sellers knows my current situation. Stripped of my shares, I''m just like Israel Williamspletely disqualified from taking the reins of the family.


    From now on, I''m afraid I won''t have the ammunition to go up against Ste Cameron.


    Consider this file my way of repaying Sellers for still being willing to visit me." Returning from Aurora''s ce, Sellers Burton was in an excellent mood.


    The information she had provided was absolutely critical.


    Aurora was easily one of the most brilliant women Sellers had ever encountered— her mind was a lethal weapon.


    If it hadn''t been for Ste and Joshua crashing the party, it would have only been a matter of time before Aurora imed her spot as the head of the Williams family.


    Upon returning home, Sellers went straight to his study.


    He carefully flipped through the results of Aurora''s investigation.


    After Joshua returned, he had spent a full three months recovering, which proved just how devastating his injuries had been.


    Aurora discovered that exactly three months after Joshua had healed, several warlord families in a war-torn, vtile country had met sudden, gruesome ends— highly suggestive of a brutal retaliation.


    She suspected that Joshua was the architect of their deaths.


    But it was only a theory. Too much time had passed, making it nearly impossible to trace any concrete evidence back to him.


    Aurora had looked into those warlords; they were local tyrants, even more vicious and entrenched than the Fordham brothers down in the Delta.


    She suggested that Sellers could use this angle to push Joshua''s buttons.


    Beyond that, they could also weaponize the month Ste spent kidnapped by Leonard Lerman.


    When Aurora had first made that suggestion, it had actually caught Sellers off guard.


    Sellers had asked, "Foreman Richards kidnapped Ste too. Why not use him as the wedge?"


    Aurora had just given a strange, knowing smile. "Leonard is a fanatic. When he strikes, he ys a scorched-earth game-he leaves no survivors and no room for mercy But when he falls for someone, he pours his entire soul into treating them well.


    That kind of jarring contrast is bound to leave a mark on Ste.


    Knowing Leonard, even though they were entirely alone together for a month, he


    never would have forced himself on her against her will.


    Ste might not forgive him, but she will never forget him.


    He transferred so many of his shares to her and meticulously paved the way for her future. Even a woman with a heart of stone would feel a ripple of emotion


    It would be one thing if he were dead. But the fact that he might still be alive... his


    very existence is destined to be a permanent thorn in Joshua''s side."


    Sellers had asked, "How do you know Leonard isn''t dead?"


    Aurora replied, "Because Leonard controls half the media empire. Without his tacit approval, my. scandal would have been buried by the Willians artd Chapman families a long time ago.


    Because of that, I''m guessing Leonard is still breathing."


    Recalling Aurora''s words, Sellers couldn''t help but feel a pang of pity for her.


    She hadn''t lost because shecked the ws or the cunning; she had lost because her luck was tragically bad.


    Sellers was so engrossed in the files that hepletely failed to notice the sudden intrusion in his study.


    He didn''t know how much time had passed when he suddenly realized the room was eerily, unnervingly quiet.


    He looked up, his gaze sweeping the room, and caught sight of a strikingly handsome figure leaning casually against the doorframe.


    His pupils shrank to pinpricks.