When Love Comes Late by PASSION

Chapter 2357

When he saw Stella later, he would confront her directly and demand the truth.

After her conversation with Sanford, where he promised to take care of the rumors, Stella went back to working on her design sketches.

However, a wave of tiredness soon hit her.

She had been feeling unusually drained lately, so she decided to rest her eyes for a bit.

When she finally woke up, the day had already slipped into the evening.

Glancing at her phone, she noticed that the trending topic had disappeared, and the two photos were nowhere to be seen.

A post from Matthew caught her eye; it had been sent just ten minutes earlier.

The message read, Fake news. Accountability pursued.

Matthew would

wave of

feared that their fragile relationship, recently improved, might be on

as_ she struggled to figure out how

moment, a knock echoed from

studio, calling from the other side, Stella,

in? Stella assumed it was Matthew at the

rushed to fix her slightly messy hair

opened, it was

Stella blinked and asked, What are you doing here? Sanford raised an eyebrow, his voice steady as

news online thats bothering you? Are you afraid that being seen with me might make things worse, and youre trying to keep a distance from me? Stella quickly

most was the thought that if Matthew showed up and found Sanford there, it

her head spin

hand, appeared to relax, a