Chapter 720
Wendy did not notice the strange look on Stella’s face.
“Why don’t you come over and play with him?” she asked.
But that was Guinevere’s baby. The baby she had with Weston.
Stella’s eyes almost trembled with all that suppressed emotion, but she still had to pretend that she was fine.
“Never mind,” she refused. “I have no experience with children. I don’t even know how to hold them…”
“It’s really not that hard!”
With Zach in her arms, Wendy walked towards Stella and handed him to her.
“Every woman has to learn how to do it someday anyway,” she told Stella. “Come on; I’ll teach you how to hold him!”
Wendy was so kind to her that she found it hard to refuse her, but at the same time, she just froze when Wendy pushed Zach’s little body towards her. The boy leaned against her chest; his face flushed red from all the crying. Soon, he closed his eyes and cried his lungs out again …
“Waaah! Waaah!”
Stella’s whole body stiffened. She looked down lumberingly at the boy, not knowing what to do or say.
Wendy laughed when she saw how clueless and awkward
Stella was with Zach.
“You have to coax and soothe him!”
“…but how do I do that?”
“Just shake his arm a bit. Pat his back a little. Be gentle.”
Stella did as she was told and imitated what Wendy did earlier with Zach.
“Don’t cry…” she cooed, gently patting Zach’s tiny back. “It’s alright…”
Perhaps there was a special connection between Zach and Stella, or perhaps Zach was just tired from all the crying, but in any case, he suddenly stopped crying.
The boy let out a long sigh, and his reddened face gradually recovered as he stretched and yawned as though he was so cozy that he was ready to sleep.
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