Chapter 37

Lucas waited for his wife to sit before taking a seat opposite her; his expression stoic and unchanged the entire time. “She’s Yvonne’s friend,” Lucas told Weston as he sat down. “Don’t mind it too much.”

Stella frowned ever so slightly when she heard the word “stranger” coming from Weston’s mouth, but she still wouldn’t look at him. She sat down stiffly at the dining table, her ears ringing from the absurdity of the situation. Never in a thousand years would she have guessed that Lucas’s guests were Weston Ford and Guinevere Cohen.

Weston had noticed her the second she appeared. Naturally, Guinevere did too. The moment she saw Stella, her body stiffened , sure that she’d just seen a ghost! Blood drained from her face, and she stared at the woman like a hawk. It was only when they were all seated that she realized she was covered in goosebumps.

That face… there could be no mistake. She would never forget that woman’s face! But how could Stella Sealey be here? Wasn’t she already dead?

Although Guinevere’s backwas soaked in a cold sweat, she had been in the entertainment industry for many years, and she could take this much without losing control. Once she regained her senses, her first instinct was to check for Weston’s reactions. When she saw that his eyes had been glued on the woman the whole time, her fists tightened. She even clenched her teeth.

still be…

all control. Her mind was now blank. All she could

go unnoticed by Yvonne. She could sense that something weird was happening but was utterly befuddled by

answered simply with a shake of her head. She seemed utterly nonchalant, but under the table, her fingernails dug into the flesh of her thighs so

senses and forced herself to look away from Stella at that moment. Then

demanded tersely as

Guinevere, shielding her from Guinivere’s glare, which Lucas sensed as malicious. “Miss Cohen,” he said, “you can speak to me directly if there’s any problem. There’s no need

close, but since Lucas was Henry Moore’s attending doctor, and Henry Moore

to cause no trouble as the host, she let the

But she gradually

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