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?”

imagining it, but when Abraham

answered, “They have nothing to do

her biological parents, but at the time, Kelly had been hounding her relentlessly. Returning to the Reed family, even getting engaged

Ethan,

“Nothing to

“Kelly was threatening me. I got engaged to Ethan to make her and Derrick let

Abraham’s sharp gaze, Stella spilled

was in prison, there was no reason to keep anything

expected, Abraham’s expression

the hospital, Ethan watched helplessly as Lillian writhed in pain, tormented

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

soon as possible. The team of specialists said that Lillian’s

could treat her uterine cancer naturally. they hoped to spare her from

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

“I know,” he said.

already knew–they

phone and dialed Stella’s

Kingston Heights, Stella was still being interrogated by Abraham when her

was about to

she instinctively ignored it and declined the call. But

voice was firm. “Why aren’t you