Love After Divorce by BELLA

Chapter 281:

Damn it! He was on a business trip just when she was ready to confront him. He had gone too far this time.

Stella was enveloped in an angry aura all day, making her colleagues tremble with fear. They didn’t know what had happened but kept their distance.

After work, Stella rushed to the hospital to visit Adrian, who immediately asked her where “Bad Uncle” had gone.

“Your bad uncle was sold to South Africa by human traffickers to become a bride,” Stella replied, her voice dripping with sarcasm.

“Oh? What’s a child bride?” Adrian asked curiously.

“Er… A child bride is… well, in the old days, she was a girl bought to be the wife of a rich man’s son…” Stella struggled to explain, realizing how unusual her son’s questions were.

“Oh, so a wife can be bought? Did bad uncle buy you back then, Darling?” Adrian’s innocent question left Stella speechless.

In a way, his analogy wasn’t far off.

been like a dowry maid marrying into a family in ancient times, used as a placeholder. And once the noble lady recovered, she was

How sad.

years, there was still a part of her that hadn’t

for him not to find out the truth when he saw Adrian. Yet, she still tried to hide

she left with her suitcase in hand, she never thought of returning. X City no longer felt like her home. It was

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some time off. Instead of heading to the hospital, she

what death meant. As a young girl, she kept asking when her mother would come back. At first, her father, David, had

Though she didn’t understand death fully, she had felt a deep sense of despair, a hopelessness that remained etched

feeling of desperation had washed over her when she almost lost Adrian. She had been terrified, and though she had always thought of herself as a competent mother, at that moment, she realized how unprepared she truly was. Instead of acting, she had been paralyzed with fear, just

with Alia than she was with Adrian. Despite RK’s flaws, when it came to Alia,

Perhaps it was time to consider letting Adrian live with his father,

to the silent cemetery. “I couldn’t take good care of Adrian… so why did I insist on having him and raising him on my own? He’s suffered so much

looked at her with love and care. Memories flooded back—happy moments when her family had been whole, and her mother

once I cut my hand with a knife,” Stella began softly. “I cried and cried, and you bandaged it up. I thought I was going to lose all my blood. You told me I needed to eat more vegetables to make up for it. I ate them every day for weeks because you said it would