Love After Divorce by BELLA

Chapter 8:.

Emily had returned to the kitchen to prepare dinner while Stella remained on the couch, thinking about what Emily had said.

“Ding, ding…”

Suddenly, the ringing of the phone brings her out of her thoughts. Without checking the caller ID, she answered. “Stella…”

A familiar but distant voice rang on the other end of the phone. It was her father, David Richard.

Stella tightened her grip on the phone.

She didn’t know how to feel; it had been nine years since she had last heard that voice. During her three years of marriage to RK, her father had never called or visited her.

Even after she had moved to France for six years, he had never reached out to inquire about her well-being. Had it not been for this unexpected call, she would almost have thought he had forgotten he had a daughter like her.

He had almost forgotten that he had another family besides his son. Yet today, out of the blue, he called her.

“I hear you’re back. Come out and let’s have dinner.” Stella’s emotions were a tangled mess. “Dad, I’m busy today. Let’s meet another day.”

“I just saw you go upstairs. I’ll wait for you downstairs.”

Stella didn’t know what to do.

In the Restaurant…

Stella accompanied David Richard to the restaurant. As to how he knew she was back and where she lived, no one knew.

Once there, David ordered a variety of food. But as they waited, the atmosphere around them was very quiet. Although they were father and daughter, they felt more like strangers.

After a while, David broke the silence. “Stella, I heard from your sister that she saw you at the company. I hadn’t thought you’d come back from France.”

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you thought…?” Stella looked at the person in front of her cynically. How much did

nine years, a smirk appeared on

a child with you.

froze on

people knew him in X City. She didn’t want anyone to know either. After all, she had given birth to him in secret, against the wishes

she tell them about her son? She didn’t want them to

“Dad, I…”

been all these years, and yet all you do is

back and what the child was. Such significant questions; she was sure they

asked the wrong

I’m getting old and my words don’t always come out right, how have you been?

even care?” thought

your sister is

think it would be better if you didn’t meet her. You don’t want to go back to France and you plan to stay here, so why don’t

“Don’t you…”

stay or go is my decision. You don’t have to worry or make arrangements for me.” His

looked at the man sitting across from her, and the last shred of hope and kinship in her heart vanished like the wind. She looked at her father – had David Richard met with

who had arranged her marriage to RK three years ago and had used her as a chess

ago. In this second chance of her life, she was

thought so, Stella picked up

before she left, she looked at David Richard and said, “I thought this time you wanted to see me

you for clearing

So… it’s better that in the future you

I’m going to do the

if he thought of her again, he would try to use her as a chess piece

Outside the restaurant…

the middle of the crowd, one man stood out like the

moonlight bathed him in a soft

Stella just glanced away and went in

met like this? To her, he was just a stranger. She didn’t want to show up in his world again or have anything to