Chapter 723

“Uh-huh,” Stella replied, “your grandfather wanted me to.” 

Weston straightened up and peered down at her. 

“What did he say to you?” 

Stella paused, then shook her head and told him,” Nothing much. He just wanted me to get a good rest here tonight…” 

Weston’s eyes narrowed into thin slits. That piercing gaze of his would penetrate even the deepest secrets in anyone’s heart. 

“Was that all?” he asked again. “What else did he say?” 

“What else do you think he’d say?”countered Stella. She looked up and bravely met his gaze, daring him to search her eyes. “That he would give me a large sum of money so I would leave you, perhaps?” “No,” Weston laughed. “That’s not his style.” 

“It seems that you two understand each other very well,” Stella raised her brows. “Your grandfather knew he couldn’t get rid of me just by throwing money at me.” 

gaze and pinched her nose. “It doesn’t matter how

much more than that

side.” 

sat there staring at the ceiling. She blinked again and again. Her eyes were getting sore. She reached into her bag and found that she still had a few pills left. She counted

obligations consumed much of his energy. He would constantly pester her around the house, wanting to do it again and again. However,

 

things that happened today, Weston would’ve been so preoccupied that he would have no energy

was what Stella

had been

large. A lot of them were old ones that were fading, but some newer, fresher ones were still red. It made her

, turned on the

get her attention still lingered in her

now finally engulfed her. She could no longer hold it in.

time to warm up yet. It pricked her skin like a

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