Chapter 138

Maisie paused, her eyes looking down.

“Why did you suddenly decide to tell me now?”

Stephen never wanted to talk about her mother, and Maisie always thought that he had forgotten about her. She would feel sad whenever she saw Willow and Leila.

Stephen saw the dismay in her eyes, and his heart was heavy. “I didn’t talk about it because I didn’t want to get into it.”

“I always wanted to know, did you really hate my mother that much?”

She had given him a daughter but wasn’t better than Leila?

Stephen gnashed his teeth. “You don’t know what happened between your mother and me, and you think that I hate her?”

looked away without saying

when your mother married me, she came to me. We didn’t

Not for love?

was stumped

looked sad. “I was young and ambitious, wanting to build a career in Bassburgh after leaving Coralia. But I kept getting stonewalled until I met your

shocked me. She said we should get married, and she would help me build

at that time since they had just met for a few days. He could

man would be

need to settle down and build a name for himself in Bassburgh, so he agreed, but under the condition that they would not interfere with each others’ life after the wedding, just like a contract. She had said that if he found a woman

It was a simple process that made them husband and wife only at

capable. She built Vaenna Jewelry up within

Marina’s outstanding capability matched her

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