Chapter 1100: Chapter 1103

Chapter 1103 As she entered the room, she was met with the sight of the two people laughing and joking. She frowned and asked Justin, “Are you done with the task I gave you?” “Yeah,” Justin‘s smile faded a little. “I‘ve explained the whole process to her in detail.” “Good.” Tina then put the documents away and told Stella, “I‘ll send the rest to Mr. Ford‘s email. He‘ll tell you what to do.”

“Okay.” Stella rose up to her feet and asked, “If there‘s nothing else, can I go now?”

“Sure,” replied Tina.

She watched Stella as she walked away and suddenly thought of something. She turned to Juştin and suggested, “Why don‘t you send her off?”

Justin scrutinized her with a meaningful look, but Tina seemed oblivious, focusing intently on the computer screen in front of her.

Thus, he had little choice but to get up on his feet. “I‘ll send you off then,” he told Stella.

“Okay.”

Although they had spoken about it before, the last time Stella met Justin , she still felt an awkward atmosphere existing between them. But this time, they‘d completely come clean and said everything they needed to say, and she no longer felt that sinking feeling when she looked at him.

They had just walked out of the door together when Justin suddenly stopped and told Stella, “I think I‘d better leave you here. If I go any further, I‘m afraid Weston Ford might...”

The corners of Stella‘s mouth twitched. She seemed to be smiling, yet her eyes were bereft of joy.

Justin knew what she had been going through lately, so he patted her shoulder and said, “I know you‘re not the kind to murder anyone. You still have a whole life ahead of you. Right now, just focus on protecting yourself.”

Stella jerked her head up suddenly and looked at him. “Do you really believe that I didn‘t kill anyone?”

“Yes,” he replied without any hesitation. “You wouldn‘t kill anyone, much less a young kid like Zachary Ford. You would never harm an innocent child like that.”

Stella‘s eyes turned red. This was her first time hearing someone say explicitly that they believed in her and that she would never do such a heinous thing. Even Weston had been evasive about the matter.

Sure, he had been trying to shield her from harm, exonerating her from the charges, but he had never been willing to look into her eyes and truly trust her. Seeing Stella in that way made Justin sigh heavily. He looked up, and he got a sudden longing to smoothen the messy strands of hair on her head.

But then he thought about it and decided against it. He knew such a gesture might send the wrong message, and he put his hand back down. “We‘re still friends, you know. If you need any help from me, just say the word, okay?” After that, he walked up to her and gave her a polite and friendly hug. “Let‘s put the past behind us,” he said. “The next time we meet, we‘ll just be good friends.”

Stella nodded and patted his arm before letting him go. Justin chuckled under his breath when he noticed her distant gesture toward him.

“So I guess this is goodbye then,” he said. “I see Weston Ford‘s assistant has been waiting anxiously for you over there.”

Hearing this, Stella turned around and, as expected, saw Ben standing at the car door looking at her.

When Ben saw both standing at the door, he wanted to approach them. However, he frowned deeply while exuding an intensely austere aura. He was becoming more like his boss by the day.

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