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.

have to be careful not to get the marks on your eyes, okay?”

he noticed that she did not look very pleased, so he explained, “We were just having fun, that’s

unhappy about him teaching the

documents into her handbag and silently picked Emma

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

pair had disappeared into the bathroom, he leaned down towards Elias and asked him, “Is your mommy angry?”

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

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

bathroom, Stella had just placed Emma in the

rubber ducky when she noticed Stella looking worried. Perceptively, she took her mother’s hand and asked, “What’s wrong,

her and smiled, telling her, “No, baby, I’m

took Emma’s arm

nothing more of it and went back to playing with the

her thoughts. She sighed and just focused on giving

them long before they were done. Stella wrapped Emma up in a thick towel and carried her out of the

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