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?”

if she was imagining it, but when Abraham said

have nothing to do with

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

got engaged to Ethan, Kelly had

“Nothing

explained, “Kelly was threatening me. I got engaged to Ethan to

sharp gaze, Stella spilled

was no reason to keep

expected, Abraham’s expression

as Lillian writhed in pain, tormented

to walk into his office. Now, she was confined to

as soon as possible. The team of

and she would also need heart surgery. If Rianne could treat her uterine cancer naturally.

Can’t Buy You Out of

Finished

her side were being

“I know,” he said.

anything, Ethan already knew–they had

unfamiliar phone

interrogated by Abraham when her

as Abraham was about to say something, the

ignored it and declined the call. But the caller was persistent–it

voice was firm. “Why