Clarence pulled Stella into the bathroom, took out the hairdryer, and gently blew her hair.
Stella leaned on the vanity and tilted her head to look at him, "You just said on the phone..."
He lifted her hair and sniffed it, "You changed your shampoo? It smells good."
Stella was annoyed.
She nudged him, "I'm serious, and I've been using this for a month."
Clarence raised his eyebrows slightly and continued to blow-dry her hair.
After a while, Stella was just about to say something when Clarence's voice sounded. "It's not that I don't want to tell you. I hope that you can always be happy like you are now. The past doesn't matter anymore."
After a moment of silence, Stella set her mouth in a grim line and said, "Is it about Chan's paternity test?"
Her father and Clarence's secrets were only something related to these feuds.
Clarence acquiesced.
Stella took the hairdryer, turned it off and put it aside. "I know. I won't ask."
It might have nothing to do with Emmett, but the truth was even more unacceptable according to their attitudes.
Clarence pulled her in his arms and whispered. "Go to sleep."
...
Half a year later.
As the Fashion Week drew nearer, Stella worked until two or three o'clock almost every day before bed.
To not bother Clarence and the three children, she would sometimes even sleep in the studio.
Clarence seemed to be busier than her.
In the morning, when Stella returned to the Starry Lake Mansion, she only saw Noah and Dolores having breakfast while the twins were crawling on the carpet under the maid's care.
Seeing her, Noah said happily, "Mummy!"
Stella kissed him on the cheek, then asked Dolores, "Did Clarence not come back last night?"
"He went to Australia on a business trip last night. Didn't he tell you?"
Stella remembered that he had called her last night and she was busy changing the details of the necklace, so she answered vaguely.
She smiled awkwardly, "He told me, but I forgot it."
As Stella said, she rubbed Noah's head and told him to eat correctly before going upstairs to change her clothes.
She had just pushed open the cloakroom door when she saw that there was a new batch of clothes inside.
They were all the new seasonal models.
While picking out her clothes, Stella called Clarence.
"Have you arrived in Australia yet?"
"Yes."
Stella chose a simple dress and a jacket in the same color. "How long will it take?"
"A week at most."
Stella answered and didn't say anything else.
"What's wrong?"
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