Love After Divorce by BELLA

Chapter 123:

The next day, Stella was woken up by noise outside.

She rubbed her eyes and checked her phone. It was still early, and the sky was barely brightening. Outside her bedroom, the sounds of a cartoon mixed with the hurried pitter-patter of little feet.

Stella got out of bed and found her precious son racing around the house with several toy cars, still dressed in his sheep pajamas.

“Adrian… what are you doing?” Stella asked, yawning and rubbing her eyes.

Adrian didn’t even look up as he dashed by. “Darling, you’re up!” he called, too focused on playing with his toys to stop.

Stella sighed in exasperation. Who did this little boy take after? He could get up all on his own, without anyone waking him, but he usually needed a nudge when it was time for school.

Yet today, here he was—wide awake—at four-thirty in the morning, playing with his new toys.

The boy hadn’t even let her sleep!

Looking around his room, Stella saw the pile of toys that had been neatly stacked the night before. But now, the packages were torn apart, and the toys were scattered everywhere.

Every toy, dozens of them, had been unwrapped.

know how

to return some of these toys or sell them to get back some

wake him last night, thinking she could sort it out later. But now, in just one morning, Adrian

seemed completely oblivious to the seriousness of what he had done.

I wanted to play with my toys! Last night, when we got home,

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night! I didn’t even sleep well because of them!” he complained, his little voice filled

Stella couldn’t believe it.

one suffering? Adrian had torn open all the toys without even asking, and now she had to clean

told you not to take things from strangers? Don’t you understand?” Stella

Tristan kept sending things

as he fiddled with a remote control. He glanced

a stranger. He’s been

was as pure as it could be, and there was even

now Adrian was already so attached to him? Her son was getting too close to a man she

sake, she kept her temper in

that familiar with Uncle Tristan. From now on, you’re not allowed to accept anything from him. If you want something, Mommy will buy it for you,”

Adrian herself than let anyone else,

Adrian pouted at that.