Chapter 1224

Stella was still mired in confusion when she got home later that day. She was still holding the documents Weston gave her in her hands when she opened the door to her house.

Elias and Emma flew into her arms, laughing in glee as they hugged her tight…

“Mommy, you’re home!”

Stella tried her best to put on a smile for them. Then she noticed some colorful marks on Emma’s face and asked her, “What are these?”

“I was playing with Miguel and Elias!” Emma replied.

The girl spoke a lot more fluently and clearly when she was around people she was familiar with.

“Miguel was teaching us to play cards,” Elias added, expanding upon Emma’s points as he always did, “and the loser has to have a line drawn on their face!”

Stella paused. She reached out her hand to wipe the marks on Emma’s face.

as much as you like,” she told them. “But you have to be careful not

a deck of cards in his hands. As he slowly shuffled the cards while walking up to her, he noticed that she did not look very pleased, so he explained, “We were just having fun, that’s all. It’s only a simple game. It’s not going to get them addicted or anything like that,

unhappy about him teaching the children to play cards.

She slipped the documents into her handbag

a bath. It’s getting late now. Both of your should

a little disconcerted when he noticed that Stella was ignoring him. Once the mother and daughter pair

had no clue, so he shook his head, confusion written all over his

and patted the boy’s head before saying,

had just placed Emma in the

looking worried. Perceptively, she took her mother’s

smiled, telling her, “No, baby, I’m

Emma’s arm and cleaned

thought nothing more of it and went back to

Emma refused to sit still, Stella found herself unable to continue her thoughts. She sighed and just focused on giving

before they were done. Stella wrapped Emma up in a thick

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