The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 28 Money Can’t Buy You Out of This

“You taught me everything–except how not to have a heart, Stella replied.

If she had been heartless, no one would have been able to hurt her. Just like with the Reed family–because she didn’t care, nothing they did could truly wound her. But the Dawson family was different…

Her mother had loved her so much. From a young age, she had known she wasn’t Abraham’s biological child, that he had taken her in.

But her mother had always treated her as her own, cherishing her like something precious, holding her in the palm of her

hand.

Abraham let out a cold snort. “Hmph!”

Stella asked, “How is Mom, really?”

“She’s fine. She’s been going to church and praying for three years–afraid that divine retribution would catch up to you out there

Stella went quiet. Divine retribution?Is he saying I am too sheltered, incapable of surviving on my own?

But hearing that her mother had been praying for her all this time still made her heart ache with emotion.

She looked up at Abraham eagerly. “Mom has been doing that for three years?”

Abraham flicked her forehead. Stella winced, covering her head, not daring to cry out.

Abraham continued, “Three years ago, there were reasons for what happened. But what about the Reed family? And Ethan?”

but

nothing to

relentlessly. Returning to the Reed family, even getting engaged to Ethan, had been her way of finally getting rid of

she got engaged to Ethan,

eyebrow. “Nothing to do with

me. I got engaged to Ethan to make her and Derrick let their guard

gaze,

was no

Abraham’s expression finally

as Lillian writhed

Now, she was confined to a hospital bed. Susan was beside

team of specialists said that Lillian’s most pressing issues are her liver

need heart surgery. If Rianne could

28 Money Can’t Buy

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those by her side were being tormented emotionally. Susan felt awful. Ethan felt even

“I know,” he said.

anything, Ethan already knew–they

grabbed an unfamiliar phone and dialed Stella’s

Kingston Heights, Stella was still being interrogated by

as Abraham was about to say something, the call interrupted

unknown number, she instinctively ignored it and declined the call. But the caller was persistent–it rang

firm. “Why