His Charming Wife novel Chapter 9

"You did not say anything." Jasper Milton said coldly.

Stella Grace was relieved.

She felt that she should not dawdle for long. She stood up and nodded respectfully to Jasper Milton. "Thank you for having me yesterday, Chief. I'll leave now."

"Take those cosmetics with you." Jasper Milton ordered.

"There is no need."

"I bought them especially for you. If you don't want them, who else would want them?" Jasper Milton's tone became colder.

Stella Grace was a little afraid of him, so she picked up the gift bag and said, "I'll transfer the money to you. Please give me your bank account number."

"If you have money, just come back here to the camp and return it to me." Jasper Milton wrote down his phone number quickly on a piece of paper and handed it to Stella. "Call me when you come."

"Hm." Stella Grace took it respectfully.

Jasper Milton took a deep look at her called out loudly, saying, "Send Miss Grace out."

Today was Stella’s off day.

After returning home, Stella Grace put the gift bag on her tea table, changed her clothes, and went to the psychiatric hospital to visit her mother, Celine Grace.

Since Celine Grace got a divorce, she had suffered emotionally. Five years ago, with the help of Federick Addington, Celine' s condition was getting better.

Three years ago, when Stella Grace was kidnapped and raped, Celine collapsed in an emotional meltdown. She had to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital, and she had never left since.

Stella Grace walked into the ward guiltily.

Celine Grace sat quietly by the window, in a daze, her eyes empty.

Stella Grace picked up a comb and went over to her.

Celine looked back at Stella and asked, "When will my daughter come to visit me?"

Stella Grace's eyes sank. She tied Celine’s hair and sat opposite her. She said softly, "Mom, I’m Stella."

Celine paused, looked at Stella, and then looked behind Stella with panic in her eyes. "Where’s Federick? Why didn't he come with you? Is there anything wrong with the both of you?"

Stella raised the corner of her mouth with bitterness, and the anger in her eyes deepened.

Years ago, Celine had threatened Stella with suicide, forcing her to accept Federick Addington's proposal. Stella had gone through with the marriage before she had even addressed her own emotions. If Celine Grace was mentally sound at that time, would she still have forced Stella to do the same?

"We have no problems. He is very kind to me. Oh, mom, I will become the deputy director at the hospital soon," Stella Grace said with a smile.

"Then why doesn't he come to see me? You have to let him come to see me tomorrow." Celine Grace said domineeringly.

"He is going to work tomorrow." Stella Grace explained.

Celine Grace slapped Stella on the face and shouted, "Bring him with you when you come next time. Otherwise, don't come to see me, or I will disregard you as my daughter."

Looking at the redness in Celine's eyes, Stella's face was burned with physical and emotional pain.

If her mother was not a psychotic patient, she would never treat her this way, right?

"Okay, I understand." Stella Grace lowered her eyes, and her lashes covering her tears.

"Get out of here right now, or I'll kill you," Celine said ferociously.

Stella Grace stood up and said gently, "Mom, have a good rest. I'll come to see you another day."

"Get out."

Stella Grace turned around and walked out of the psychiatric hospital. She looked back at Celine's room.

Stella Grace reminisced her senior year in high school, her grades were good, but her family was very poor.

Celine Grace knelt on the grounds downtown, begging for money.

Whether in the hot summers or cold winters, Celine Grace knelt to beg for tuition fees for Stella to go to college.

Stella Grace knew that her mother loved her.

People never wanted to fall sick, when they did, their minds were in a mess and there was nothing they could do.

Stella Grace did not want her mother to worry about her and worsen her health condition.