Chapter 49
Holding her blanket, Stephanie turned over comfortably in bed and suddenly opened her eyes..
It was already 9 a.m., and she nervously got out of bed…
She felt a bit strange. Normally, she would be woken up at 5 a.m. by Sandra to have breakfast with George. She wondered why nobody had ruined her dreams today.
Sitting on the bed, she glanced around the bedroom and looked to her side..
Dominick didn’t come back last night.
Thinking of Dominick, Stephanie felt a bit upset.
Stephanie quickly y got out of bed and went to the bathroom to freshen up. As she grabbed a towel to wipe her face, she suddenly noticed that the injury on her right hand had improved significantly.
Frowning, she carefully examined and sniffed her fingers, detecting a faint medicinal scent.
Stephanie wondered who had applied medicine to her.
re you awake?” Sandra pushed the door open, carrying a bowl of oatmeal.
“Mrs. Wellington, are you
“Did you call the doctor last night?” Stephanie popped her head out of the bathroom and asked Sandra.
Sandra quickly placed the oatmeal on the table, looking worried. “No, Mr. Wellington asked us not to wake you up this morning. Mrs. Wellington, are you feeling unwell?”
“I’m fine,” Stephanie said, her face darkening.
After finishing the oatmeal, Stephanie curled up on the bed in the bedroom, her thoughts in turmoil.
Sitting cross–legged on the bed, she stared at her injured right hand, wondering if he had treated her with medicine.
She pondered if Dominick came back this morning…
She wondered if Dominick had been with Jessica last night. She suddenly wanted to know.
Feeling uneasy, Stephanie turned around and immediately grabbed her phone, searching for Jessica’s name, and a bunch of related news
popped up.
Scrolling through the messages, she gradually felt gloomy.
Her gaze fell on a photo on the phone screen, taken in the underground parking lot of Flaming Bar. It only caught Jessica’s back instead of her face, but the stern profile of that man beside her…
Stephanie immediately recognized him as Dominick
“They’re so impatient, doing this in public…” She bit her lip, feeling uncomfortable.
She glared at the photo, feeling annoyed. “Are you blind? What’s good about Jessica? She’s had plastic surgery!”
But Dominick just happened to like her,
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Vincent had even said that Dominick had only had one girlfriend, and that was his beloved Jessica.
“I won’t mention the plastic surgery thing again, lest I get scolded by him again.” Stephanie felt irritated and threw her phone aside.
The door suddenly opened as she tossed her phone onto the bedside table.
Stephanie instinctively looked up, and he was looking at her by the door.
Their eyes met, both looking a bit gloomy, and they remained silent.
Stephanie turned away first and moved to the head of the bed as if hiding something. She picked up her phone and immediately deleted the browsing history.
She didn’t want him to know that she was checking the rumors about Jessica and him.
She didn’t want him to know, didn’t want to feel more humiliated.
Dominick didn’t know what she was thinking, just stared at her and walked towards the bed.
“Why did you go to Flaming Bar with Vincent last night?” he suddenly asked in a deep voice.
When Stephanie heard him mention last night’s events, her face darkened. “It’s nothing,” she replied perfunctorily.
Dominick looked at her eyes, growing angrier, and tried to soften his tone as he spoke, “You’re not allowed to go to Flaming Bar…”
“Why?” Stephanie suddenly looked up at him.
“Are you forbidding me from going out because of the Wellington family’s rules? Or is it because you’re afraid I’ll embarrass you?”
Thinking of last night and the car sex photo just now, she became resentful and defiant.
“Ms. Carter is a top movie star. Her news is all over the internet and magazines. I look so much like her. Why can she…
“You’re not like her!”
His voice sounded strange, but he blurted it out.
Dominick looked at her, his gaze tinged with melancholy as he coldly warned, “When I say no, it means no! From now on, Stephanie, a bodyguard will keep you safe whenever you go out. Stop causing trouble all the time. I don’t have time to keep an eye on you.”
She couldn’t understand the cold and somber emotion in his eyes and suddenly felt a bit aggrieved. Every time, he used different standards
to treat her and Jessica.
She didn’t want to argue with him. She kept reminding herself that she had no right to care about these things, but sometimes, she just couldn’t help it.
She always cared.
Though he was indifferent, sometimes, she wanted to pretend to ignore his tenderness towards her but greedily wanted to get it.
Stephanie looked down, her eyes slightly red.
She
e got out of bed and walked to the wardrobe to wear a coat, she said softly, her tone noticeably cold.
then head
headed towards the door. “I’ll go downstairs to accompany Grandpa,”
Chapter 49
On the other hand, Dominick gazed at her with a gloomy look. Just as she reached the bedroom door, he suddenly called out to her,
“Stephanie.”
Stephanie paused but didn’t turn back.
She waited for his command. She thought that apart from ordering her, he wouldn’t say anything else.
“That cake.” he asked, his tone containing some restrained emotions.
Upon hearing the word “cake,” Stephanie jolted and turned to look at the table in the left living room, almost forgetting that she had ordered a birthday cake yesterday.
“That’s something I suddenly wanted to buy for myself!” she raised her voice as if denying something.
Dominick was slightly taken aback by her words.
can.
George looked at the chessboard, casually made a move, and asked, “Brad said you bought a cake yesterday…”
“You! What are you doing!”
Having lost a Rook, George immediately shouted at her, displeased, “Do you even know how to play chess?”
Brad, who was watching nearby, chuckled, “Mrs. Wellington, you’re really good at chess,” he praised.
“I don’t like it.” Stephanie was very lively since she was a child, and being forced to practice the piano was painful for her,
“Mrs. Wellington, you absolutely can’t play the piano in our house. Mr. Wellington hates the sound of the piano…” Brad interjected nervously as if fearing something.
As soon as she spoke, she saw both of them look up simultaneously, their eyes darkening as they looked toward the door…
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