After Stella had shooed Clarence away, she held Noah in her arms, and as she had coaxed him for a while, Noah became sleepy. He barely opened his eyes a few times before falling asleep in Stella's arms.

Stella gently put him to bed and tucked him in.

She opened the bedroom door and looked in, not finding Clarence.

Another wave of sleepiness hit her.

Stella yawned and took her clothes into the bathroom, with the door ajar.

She was just halfway through when the bathroom door was pushed open.

Clarence's voice came, "Is he asleep?"

Stella nodded, "You believe me now."

Clarence smiled and pushed open the glass door to the shower.

Stella was speechless.

She quickly pushed the door back again, "You lecher!"

Clarence stood outside and looked at the figure behind the blurred glass as he leaned against the wall. He folded his arms around his chest and said calmly, "How am I a lecher for looking at my wife?"

Stella didn't bother with him. She just wanted to wash the bubbles off her head and get out.

Clarence added, "We've been here two days. Are you getting used to it?"

With water flowing, Stella slurred, "There's nothing to 'get used to'. It's not like I've never been here before ..."

Clarence spoke slowly, "Now that you're used to it, isn't it time you changed the way of addressing people?"

Stella turned off the water, grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her body, then pulled open the door to the bathroom, "Change what?"

Clarence reached out, pulled her into his arms, and lowered his voice, "What do you think?"

"Wh-what?"

kept her distance from him, "I just took

another shower with

that, Stella was pulled into

whispered, "Stop

her ear, and his voice was

her ears tingling, which

what Clarence had just meant

could find no

gotten used to calling her Ms. Anderson. I... have

run out of the bathroom and was yanked back by

know that her last name wasn't originally Anderson either, so anyways you would

at a loss

had forgotten about

her to pay you for changing the way you address her, if you feel too embarrassed to do

"...Don't you dare!"

leaned closer to her and raised an eyebrow slightly, "So

silence, Stella lifted her hand

her hand, and said

shower. I'm going out in

the pajamas next to her and took the opportunity to

lying

him over and

that moment, the sound of a

Clarence's phone.

"You answer

"Okay."

disturbing Noah, Stella walked

walked behind her.

"It was the James family, saying that Elaine had

"And what else?"

have survived if he was on board at that time, but they did not find his body. It's possible that he jumped overboard before the explosion occurred, or that his body was

these words, Clarence looked nonchalant and did not

said, "Did Darnell plan

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