“Chris, do you know that Weston is going to hold a press conference?”As soon as she arrived at Ford Mansion, Guinevere got out of the car and rushed straight to Chris’ study.Chris was in a terrible fix after what happened lately, and now he only focused on accompanying Wendy. He knew that she might have noticed something, but he would not let anything go wrong with his marriage at this juncture. This was all he could take.“I know.”Guinevere grabbed his hand and said earnestly, “I think Weston will definitely not give up. Is he planning on getting back at us?”Chris thought that she was overthinking and pulled his hand out. “Stella killed herself. Why would he?”She froze for a moment, not knowing how to explain this. She was the one who drove her to her suicide. If only she didn’t kill her own son and framed Stella for it… Guinevere inhaled deeply to stop herself from thinking about it.No one knew that she had done such a thing.No one would think she would kill her ow
Wendy took a step backward and looked at Guinevere, then at Chris, who was standing in place, dumbfounded. “Great, just great. Zachary, who I've been raising as a grandson, is actually the son of you two! Hah! Hahaha!”She burst out laughing. She laughed fiercely, and her tears were falling uncontrollably.The more she spoke, the paler Chris’ face became.He wanted to go up and explain to her, but his feet seemed nailed to the spot, preventing him from walking.His hands started to tremble. It was summer, but his back was soaked with sweat.He never thought that Wendy would discover it. Of course, he knew this would happen someday, but he never expected it to happen now.The secret he had kept for so long had been revealed so easily.Suddenly, something flashed across his mind—if Weston announced this in the press conference, didn’t this mean that everyone must’ve known about it already?Having figured it out, Guinevere shrieked loudly, covering her ears and screaming like craz
The reporters were astounded, not expecting to hear such shocking news.“Then why does Guinevere keep claiming that you are the father of her child? It doesn’t make sense!”After a long silence, Weston said, “I didn’t want to tell you this at first. But since it has harmed my wife’s reputation, I must clarify this. Guinevere had been pursuing me for a long time, but I never responded, so she got very upset and slept with my father instead with the intention of punishing me. After that night, she got pregnant. Because of her rare blood type, she could only have one child, so she had to keep the baby. I planned to tell everything to my mother at first, but I was afraid she couldn’t take it because of her heart disease. So, I decided to keep it a secret. Anyway, I did not expect that Guinevere would suffer a memory distortion later, where she couldn’t recall who she slept with that night, thinking it was me. My father begged me, hoping I’d shoulder the responsibility since he didn’t wan
Weston went pale as a sheet and marched outside, followed by an anxious Ben.The reporters did not know what was happening and swarmed out, pursuing him.Weston had almost lost his mind when he ran out. His eyes were tinted with a dark color.He wanted to bring Stella along with him at first, but her current state didn’t allow her to meet outsiders.In their eyes, she was a corpse now. To him, however, she was his wife, dead or alive.With that in mind, he had left her in the car and planned to return to her soon. However, he did not expect such an accident to occur.Maybe it wasn’t a mere accident.Standing beside the black Gust was Guinevere, holding a jerry can and laughing so hard that she was tearing up.When she saw Weston run out, she broke out into a hysterical fit, yelling, “I have done so much for you, yet you did this to me, all for a dead person?!” She thought they would’ve taken the secret to the grave with them.She was unwilling to accept the fact that she sle
Guinevere covered her ears as though deafening sirens were blaring all around her. Ben hurriedly got some men to come over to restrain Weston so that he could not move any nearer. “Mr. Ford! Mr. Ford!”She could only see the man frantically shake off the bodyguards, wanting to dive into the fire.Finally, from the craziness in the beginning, it gradually turned into calmness.“She is dead. She is totally gone, not even leaving you with ashes!”Guinevere started laughing.She was not the only one in the world who loved the unattainable.She also wanted to witness Weston suffer the same pain.She felt satisfied.Weston fell to the ground and watched the car burning with red eyes.Seeing him finally stop struggling, Ben knelt beside him and begged, “Calm down, Mr. Ford, don’t act recklessly.”The fire burnt the last bit of Stella into nothingness.It suddenly started to rain.It had been a sunny day, just like the weather on the day she confessed in court.It started out as
Stella closed her eyes, and all those things that happened in the past flooded into her mind.It seemed to be happening before her own eyes, but the image had faded a lot… like in a dream.She never thought that such a bizarre thing could happen to her. But it did happen. By the time she woke up, she was in a strange land.She was surrounded by foreigners of different skin and eye colors, and there was only one old man of her kind.The men told her that she had escaped Weston’s control. She struggled to sit up, instinctively not believing the strangers in front of her. At that moment, a man who looked uncannily similar to Roger suddenly appeared.The resemblance threw Stella into a momentary trance. She gazed at him and called his name. “Roger…”The man gave her a somewhat sympathetic look, sighed, and said to her, “I’m sorry. I’m not him. He’s dead.”She clenched her fists, a little reluctant to believe him. “Am I in heaven?”She grabbed his hand and refused to let go. “You’
“Yes,” said the doctor, “We found that her body must’ve been treated with great care, and it recovered well. The baby is very healthy. This is indeed unprecedented… a miracle.”Miguel told Stella about it immediately.He still remembered her expression when she learned about it.At first, she was dumbfounded, as if in disbelief.After a long time, she put her hand on her stomach and looked down, unable to tell what she was feeling.Just when she thought she would have to live like this for the rest of her life, God blessed her with such a gift.She felt as if her whole body had been injected with a powerful life force, especially when she heard the doctor say that there were two fetal hearts which meant she had twins.Having a home was what she wanted the most.And the most important thing about home was family.From that day on, Stella began to cooperate with the treatment actively.She is getting better day by day, both physically and mentally.Her babies were healthy. Lat
Compassvale was a city with good weather all year long.Being there for three years, the one thing Stella felt the most sentimental about was the slow pace.As a single mother, life was hard wherever she went.It was fortunate that Miguel had helped her a lot in the initial stage, at least during her pregnancy, and provided her with a reassuring environment.She later learned that the old man Roger met in the delta was part of his biological parents’ family.He was Miguel and Roger’s grandfather.Their parents, too, had their own sad story.“More than ten years ago, my father fell in love with my mother, but my grandfather disapproved of their relationship and tried to break up the couple. My father was an exchange student, and my mother was a local of Ahn City. They fell in love at first sight and have been dating behind my grandfather’s back since then.“But my grandfather still found out about their relationship and used every means he could to break them up.“The family wa
Stella had rarely ever woken up before him.He had always been terrifyingly strong, but their lovemaking last night must have consumed a lot of his energy, leaving him so tired that he was still sound asleep.She stared at him and suddenly felt like doing something naughty. She pinched his nose and held her fingers there, trying to suffocate him. Unsurprisingly, he soon knitted his handsome brows and quickly woke up.He was surprised to see her mesmerizing eyes as soon as he woke up, which made him pause. He then took her hand into his and kissed it again and again.“Are you okay?” he asked with concern, remembering how wildly he ravaged her last night.She had only been willing to be intimate with him because she was under the influence of a drug, yet he had taken advantage of her and had his way with her over and over again last night.Stella did not speak. Seeing her like that made his expressions turn a little colder. He fell silent for a long time before he got up and sl
The moment Stella saw him, she flew into his arms and clambered onto his body. She kissed him again and again, trying to search for his breath so she could explore his body even deeper. All she wanted was to let him extinguish the fire burning inside her.Half an hour had passed, and the effect of the drug on her body was its strongest now.Weston swallowed his saliva. Without any hesitation, he pinned her against the bathroom mirror and kissed her vehemently on her face, her shoulders, then her neck.Stella could not stop herself from letting out loud moans. The sounds she produced only drove Weston wilder. Even the corners of his eyes began to turn red now.Luckily, there was still a thread of reason in his mind. He pushed her away and, while panting heavily, asked her, “Who am I, Stella?”But Stella’s mind was occupied with her primal urges. She ignored his question and grabbed his shirt collar, saying, “Let’s do it…” The sight of her filled Weston with a desire to just give
Weston paused, then simply replied, “Okay.”When he saw her changing into a pair of high heels, he followed her around and asked, “Where are you going?”“Oh, to a private concert.”Then she added, “If you’re going to spend the night here tonight, then please take care of Elias and Emma. But if you have to leave, I’ll ask Roger to come over instead.”“Don’t worry,” he said. “Just go out and enjoy yourself. I’ll be at home and take good care of the kids.”Stella paused suddenly, feeling inexplicably weird about what Weston had just said. It sounded like she was forcing him to stay at home and take care of the kids while she went out to have fun without a care in the world. She turned around to look at Weston, feeling like he was acting like a poor neglected housewife.She shook her head and tried to shake this terrifying thought out of her mind.When they arrived at the concert, Hayden offered his arm to her like a gentleman. They then walked into the private concert together, w
Stella’s words rendered Weston speechless. She was right. He had been the one to agree to let Stella date other people, so he must seem like a fool saying all those things to her.He withdrew his hands and forced himself to calm down a little. “I have no intention to stand in your way,” he told Stella. “I was only worried about Elias and Emma. Since they’re also here, I think you need to take their feelings into consideration.”The children could sense the strained atmosphere between the adults, so they just waited patiently on the couch with Roger, occasionally poking their heads out to look at their parents.Seeing his kids like that, Weston slowly added, “I’m only here to see the kids, so both of you can go ahead with your date.”Stella said nothing and just took Hayden’s hand and left.When they got downstairs, Hayden glanced at her and asked, “Are you sure you want to just leave him like that?”“I don’t know,” Stella massaged the point between her brows. “I’m not sure wh
Hayden Quirk arrived half an hour earlier than Stella did on their first date.“You’re much earlier than I expected,” he joked as Stella walked in.Stella was actually on time, but she still felt a little guilty when she saw him already waiting for her when she arrived.“The traffic is terrible today,” she said.“Don’t worry about it,” Hayden said, handing her the menu. “Mr. Ford expected me to wait for you for at least an hour.”“I seriously don’t know what you guys are up to,” she grumbled, exasperated, “but I hope it will at least be over soon. Just don’t drag it out and cause me any trouble.”She ordered a few dishes, then handed the menu back to him. Hayden took it from her, ordered a few more signature dishes that the restaurant was popular for, then looked at Stella with a faint smile.“Did you think this is all just a joke?” he asked.“What else could it be?”“I am serious about this,” he told her, his voice suddenly turning grave. “Since even Mr. Ford agreed that we s
Weston raised his eyebrows at Ben’s words. “But he’s divorced. He has an ex-wife.”“What’s wrong with having an ex-wife?”Ben found Weston’s comment strange. “This man has good qualities. Upon investigation, he has a very good personality too. He was an active member during college. He also has an amazingly beautiful resume. It’s normal that a man like him has been married before… Besides, hasn’t Ms. Sealey been married before herself? She even has two children.”Weston’s expression turned cold at once. “Are you discriminating against her?”“I’m not.”Weston said, “Or do you think she can only find a divorced man for her second marriage?”Ben panicked. “I wouldn’t dare!”With Weston’s ridiculous amount of nitpicking, they could find no one that would match Stella.Hayden sat beside and quietly reviewed Weston’s latest psychological health report. As he turned the page, he suddenly said, “I’m actually a little interested in Ms. Sealey.”Hayden laughed a little and turned to Wes
Stella opened her eyes and shot Weston a cold look. Then, she turned her head the other way.Weston did not touch her again. He knew she was probably angry with him, so he stayed silent.A few moments later, he reminded her, “Don’t be angry. That man is unreliable.”Stella propped her chin in her palm. “And what does that have to do with you?”Weston pursed his lips, setting his jaw in a tight line. He said, “I’ve promised to stop pestering you. It’ll be a promise. I’m fine with seeing you with another man, but at least find someone who makes me feel at ease.”“Why do I need your approval when I’m just looking for a date?” Stella found his words funny. “You’re just my ex-husband. Don’t you think you care too much?”Weston rubbed his brow, and his voice suddenly went cold. “If you don’t want me to keep pestering you like I just did, maybe you should listen to me.”Stella questioned, “Are you threatening me?”“No. I’m suggesting.”Stella was lost for words. Then, she suddenly
Stella froze for a moment when she heard the voice. When she turned around, she saw that Weston had appeared behind her at some point.Weston stared at the man behind Stella with a cold gaze and an icy aura around him. Weston had always emitted a strong aura around him. Anyone who saw him would immediately be terrified because of his intimidating aura.The man froze for a moment at Weston’s sudden appearance. He took a step back and quickly steadied himself before greeting Weston, “Mr. Ford.”He still had the same calm and gentle look. “I’m sending Miss Cicily back.”“I know. Don’t ever show up in front of her again,” Weston told him. “You don’t have to send her back. Stay away from her.”It would be a little inappropriate for the man to act a fool at Weston’s straightforwardness, so he tugged at his collar and asked Weston with a polite smile, “Mr. Ford, you should give me a reason, shouldn’t you? I’m having a good time with Miss Cicily.”“You’re the one who thinks she’s having
Stella smiled. It seemed like he had come prepared.Stella enjoyed chatting with the man. He was sincere and introduced himself properly as soon as they started chatting.The man was also a pianist and came from a scholarly family. Although not super wealthy, he was doing considerably well in the middle class. Stella would not need to worry about the quality of life with him, but that was about it. She certainly could not live a luxurious life.Stella had a good impression of him. She also talked to him a little more about piano music.Stella twirled her hair and smiled. She told him with a nice voice, “I’m sure Roger has already told you about my situation.”“I know.”The man looked at her gently and set the coffee in front of her. He said to her, “I’m very interested in you. I think we’re very suitable for each other. Our living standards nowadays have improved quite a bit. Not many look for a partner purely because of material qualities. People with emotional needs will search