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Clarence raised his hands in the air. He was giving her a scowl. What was this woman going through?

Instead of speaking with him, Stella buried her face in the duvet, hiding scars on her neck. Clarence was not happy to see her hide the marks.

"What are you doing?"

She hid below the quilt, just showing Clarence her head on the outside.

"Last night you..." She was unable to talk and stammered.

Clarence gave her a stern look and said, "What?"

"Did you?" She wanted to bite her lower lip instinctively again, but she restrained herself from doing so after he mentioned that she constantly bit her lips.

"What?" He questioned her who he was at the crucial moment since he understood that she had gone insane at the moment and might not have known.

Clarence felt uneasy as she called his name aloud. He wondered if she recalled what had happened the night before when she asked about it now.

She gave him a long, fixed look. "When i asked you to leave, did you leave?"

She inhaled dee