Stella shook her head.
She had asked Trevor about this before.
Jaylene’s full name used to be Jaylene Arnold. When Darcie first married Wenham, she did not have Saun as her last name. Later, during a parentteacher meeting, Darcie fell ill and could not attend. So, Wenham went on her behalf.
Wenham had never attended Jaylene’s parent-teacher meetings before. Her teachers did not know him, so they had to find out their relationship first. That was when the teachers found out that the father and daughter had different last names.
They only realized that Darcie had remarried then. Being in elementary school, the most talkative and insensitive age, Jaylene’s identity as a stepdaughter quickly spread across the school.
She got upset and refused to go to school. She cried and asked Wenham why Trevor had the same last name as him while hers was different. Everyone was saying that she was not Wenham’s daughter.
Wenham had always been a soft-hearted person. If Darcie had said it, he might not have agreed. However, Jaylene was only seven or eight years old at that time. He just could not bear to see a little child crying like that. So, he changed her last name.
After Stella explained the whole story, Felicity said, Tve always wondered why your dad could raise Trevor as such a good person, yet Jaylene is nothing like him. It turns out she’s been like this since she was little!
“How could she not know why she had a different last name from them when she was already seven or eight years old? I’m pretty sure that your stepmother taught her to do so!
“That is the only way she can enjoy the privilege of being the Saun family’s daughter and officially become a part of the family as time goes by!”
Felicity was right. People who were not very close with the Saun family all thought that Jaylene was Wenham’s biological daughter.
This misconception only ended when the Saun family held a party to welcome Stella back.
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