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 you like,” she told them. “But you have

shuffled the cards while walking up to her, he noticed that she did not look very pleased, so he

that Stella was unhappy about him teaching the children to play

said nothing. She slipped the documents into her handbag and

now. Both of your should go to bed early.”

that Stella was ignoring him. Once the mother and daughter pair had

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

head before saying, Come on, let’s give you a

bathroom, Stella had just placed Emma in

playing with her rubber ducky when she noticed Stella looking worried. Perceptively, she took her mother’s hand and asked,

glanced at her and smiled, telling her, “No, baby, I’m just thinking about something.”

arm and cleaned it thoroughly.

more of it and went back to playing with the bubbles in

unable to continue her

not take them long before they were done. Stella wrapped Emma up in a thick towel and carried her out of the

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