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?"

and kept her distance from

take another shower

pulled into the bathroom

and whispered, "Stop it. Ms. Anderson is

ear, and his voice was hoarse, "You still

felt her ears tingling,

what Clarence had just meant by

stammered but could

gotten used to calling her Ms.

those words, Stella tried to run out of the bathroom and was yanked back by

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

was at a

had forgotten about

changing the way you address her, if you feel too

"...Don't you dare!"

leaned closer to her and raised an

too intense, and after two seconds of silence, Stella lifted her hand and pushed

hand, and

take a shower. I'm going out in case Noah

that, she grabbed the pajamas next to her and took

Noah was lying on

him over and re-covered him with

a

Clarence's phone. She walked over to the bathroom and

"You

"Okay."

Stella walked out onto

bathroom and walked behind her. He

James family, saying that

"And what else?"

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

looked nonchalant

"Did Darnell plan

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