Chapter 387
Albert brimmed, not hiding his doting eyes. It was not a common sight Stella could see from Albert. The smiles those three had in the photograph were made hideous from the photo being worn and crumpled. She could somehow imagine the feeling Rainee had whenever she saw the photograph.
Shiver went down Stella's spine as she saw the photograph, having a bad premonition in her heart as she recalled how Albert treated Sophia for so many years.
As though it was to ascertain her guess, the last piece was a paternity test of Sophia and Albert. And, Sophia had a 99.996 percent chance of being Albert's biological daughter. Stella's blood turned cold from the realization of this truth, and of Albert's cruelty.
‘How can he be so heartless to take in his illegitimate daughter and used adoption as a guise to let her wife take care of her? I can't even begin to imagine how brokenhearted my mother was when she found out. She never even brought this up with me. Not even once" Stella thought.
She did not realize what her mother was going through since Rainee's mood swings caused by her depression made Stella mentally and physically exhausted. It pierced her heart every time she thought of it.
It was not because Rainee did not want to say it, but Stella might not understand it back then. She was often asked if she would follow Albert or Rainee if they were to divorce during the year she had to prepare for the college entrance exam.
She did not take the question seriously as Rainee would ask the same question whenever Albert and Rainee quarreled.
Rainee, in fact, did not want to divorce Albert. She asked Stella so she could have a suitable reason not to proceed with the divorce. Every time Rainee asked the same question, Stella would choose Albert. She would be given a happy hug and her mother would not bear to divorce.
Those were from another time. That one time she was asked that question, it was not after Rainee and Albert had an argument.
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