Female Novel
Chapter 1067
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"Gold retains value. | got an appraisal last year for the wedding ring you bought me, and they estimated that it cost a little morethan one million dollars, but we bought that ring at three million. That's too great of a difference. However, the price of the goldbracelet you bought me increased by nearly ten thousand dollars this year! That's why gold is much better than diamond. If youwere ever to go bankrupt in the future, we could sell the gold rings and support ourselves for a while.”
Keegan was speechless. ‘That's my girl,’ he thought.
Keegan had expected the rings to hold a special meaning, but after all that, Stella only considered their devaluation. 'l guessmoney is and always will be her number one priority.’
“How did you know where to find this store?" Keegan grabbed Stella's hand and asked as they continued to walk. The location ofthe store was a little hard to find. Yet, Stella located it perfectly. 'This must not be her first time at that store,, Keegan thought.
"Back in our school days, Felicity wanted to buy a gift for her mom on Mother's Day. She said the prices in branded jewelrystores were ridiculous, so she took me all over the place, trying to find a local shop selling jewelry. In the end, she picked out apair of earrings from that store."
“At that time, | fell in love with one of their trace chain necklaces. It was so shiny and beautiful. | wanted to gift it to my mom, but |didn't have that much money. And, | couldn't have asked my dad- | mean Albert, for the money. He wouldn't have given it to meeven if | did ask for it. | would have probably gotten a tongue-lashing instead."
“After all, he was already upset that he had to pay my mom's medical bills. There was no chance that he would let me buy her agift. | didn't have enough money, so the only way | could buy that necklace was to take on part-time jobs. During those years,commercial models earn 500 dollars a day, and car show models earn around 1000 to 1500 dollars a day. | was lucky enough tobe selected as one of the car show models and worked for a total of six days.
"That meant | could’ve gotten around 8000 dollars. But | got into a fight with someone on the last day of the auto show, and thatperson got injured. The other party caused a commotion, and the police arrived at the scene. They contacted my guardian, whichwas Albert, and we had to pay the person 5000 dollars as compensation.
"| tried to go to the head of the auto show to claim my pay, but Albert stopped me and said that | was a disgrace.
“In his opinion, | should be ashamed of myself for being harassed by a man. He said being a car show model meant that | had noself-respect. | once thought that beauty was a sin because of him. | didn't even dare to wear nice dresses anymore. But didn't allof us come into this world
naked? Arent the harassers who are the ones at fault here?” Stella said in a calm and collected tone. It was as if she was nottelling her own story.
Keegan's heart ached for her at that moment.
“After that, the senior who pushed me into taking the job as a car show model contacted me, telling me that one of the people incharge of the auto show had come forward to talk to the head. They discussed the situation and decided to pay me 6000 dollars.When | returned to the shop with the money, | found out that someone had already purchased the necklace, and Mother's Daywas also over at that point."
Keegan started to choke up. He knew about the harassment that occurred, but he did not know that Stella was the victim.Keegan was at the auto show that year as a VIP. He was invited by the organizer and was having drinks with the people upstairswhen the exhibition was going on. He had not witnessed the incident when it happened. But there was already a commotiondownstairs when he found out about it.
The people at the convention center were afraid that the incident would negatively impact their brand image, so they quicklycalled the people involved in the conflict to go into a room and discuss the matter.
Keegan had a successful business meeting and was about to leave when he saw a girl crying at the stairwell