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After stating where she was, Stella waited for her.

Riley showed up twenty minutes later.

Stella hurried up, opened the door, and sat into the car as soon as it stopped. "What's going on?"

"I'm going to be late, so let's head to the company first. I'll speak with you while traveling.”

Riley could only spin around very swiftly. "Why did Clarence take your phone away so abruptly? Did you irritate him? Or did you make yourself known?"

"No, I didn't expose anything, but we had a fight last night," Stella shook her head.

"Tell me what happened."

Stella refrained from disclosing more information, choosing to disclose merely the cause of their altercation.

"He's not very fond of you. These are the cruel comments he always spoke to you."

Stella became agitated upon learning that "he doesn't like you," thinking, "Yeah, he should really hate me. As of right now, you remained hidden and said nothing out of the ordinary, so it is unlikely that he could have discovered anything. We