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.

“But you have to be careful not to get the marks on

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

was unhappy about him teaching the children to play cards.

nothing. She slipped the documents into her handbag and silently

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

mother and daughter pair had disappeared into the bathroom, he leaned down towards Elias and asked him, “Is your

so he shook his head, confusion written all over his

head before saying, Come on, let’s

had just placed Emma in

looking worried. Perceptively, she took her mother’s hand and asked, “What’s wrong, Mommy? Are you

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

arm and cleaned

Emma thought nothing more of it and went back to playing with the

Emma refused to sit still, Stella found herself unable to continue her thoughts. She

they were done. Stella wrapped Emma up in a

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