Chapter 387

Albert brimmed, not hiding his doting eyes. It was not a common sight Stella could see from Albert. The smiles those three had in the photograph were made hideous from the photo being worn and crumpled. She could somehow imagine the feeling Rainee had whenever she saw the photograph.

Shiver went down Stella's spine as she saw the photograph, having a bad premonition in her heart as she recalled how Albert treated Sophia for so many years.

As though it was to ascertain her guess, the last piece was a paternity test of Sophia and Albert. And, Sophia had a 99.996 percent chance of being Albert's biological daughter. Stella's blood turned cold from the realization of this truth, and of Albert's cruelty.

'How can he be so heartless to take in his illegitimate daughter and used adoption as a guise to let her wife take care of her? I can't even begin to imagine how brokenhearted my mother was when she found out. She never even brought this up with me. Not even once,' Stella thought.

She did not realize what her mother was going through since Rainee's mood swings caused by her depression made Stella mentally and physically exhausted. It pierced her heart every time she thought of it.

not understand it back then. She was often asked if she would follow Albert or Rainee

did not take the question seriously as Rainee would ask the same question whenever Albert and

divorce. Every time Rainee asked the same question, Stella would

she was asked that question, it was not after Rainee and Albert had an argument.

Rainee would not be as happy as she usually would when she heard the same answer. That time, she only knitted her brows and looked like

didn't I notice that Mom was acting weird back

realizing that those were in fact, records showing the financial loopholes in the company. There were signatures of Albert trying to evade tax, unfair tenders, bribery, and even the embezzlement record of the Jewell family during those years. That was probably the

divorce agreement had been signed, yet Mom was met with misfortune before the very last of the divorce formalities could be completed. Is this just a coincidence? Did the car accident have something to do with my father? Was mother trying to tell

chills piercing her heart. Right at that moment, her

a call from Marshall. She took a deep breath, suppressing her

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