Given her clear purpose for meeting me, why couldn’t I turn the tables and gather some clues myself?

I nodded calmly. "Ms. Stella, your mind is truly impressive.”

"Oh, it's nothing. After all, no one can break through his walls. No one at all," she said. She looked at me with a malicious glint, suggesting that I was the “no one” she referred to.

After all, on his birthday night, Atlas exploded in rage. I believed Stella knew what had happened

"Atlas knows what he wants. His father, Louis, built the empire." Stella's tone was confident. I knew she had an influence on the Pierce family.

"So, the Pierce family has its own company?" I was intrigued. A conglomerate as large as ATL Empire couldn't have sprung from nothing.

"Our grandfather ran the Pierce family’s company until he turned sixty. Then Uncle Louis took over. He transformed it significantly within a few years...."

She paused. "Later, for some reason, Uncle handed the business to my mother and started the ATL Empire him