Find me in your labyrinth (Stella and Jonathan) novel Chapter 1950

After Estelle left, Jonathan sat on the couch, lighting up a cigarette, and said to Sylvia, "You've done well. Go get some rest."

Sylvia poured herself a glass of wine and strolled to the floor-to-ceiling window to gaze out at the night lights of Zion. In such a sprawling, sleepless city, where could Gab be?

Was he really in Zion?

She turned to Jonathan and said, "Mr. Jarvis, the Mystoria Federation under your control, as well as Gab's Silver Valley, are both havens. Let's make Citadel a haven, too."

She had first met Gab in Citadel.

Back then, there was a place called Red Grotto, notorious for auctioning off young girls, and she was among those being sold.

Sold by her parents—more precisely, her adoptive parents—and taken from the border, after an arduous journey, she ended up in Citadel, the so-called hell on earth.

Gab was ten years older than her. At just eighteen, he was already a young man of steady and profound disposition.

When he passed by the cage she was locked in, she reached out and clung to the hem of his coat. He turned and said coldly, "Let go!"

She didn't relent, gripping tightly, her eyes pleading with him in silence.

He shook off her hand harshly and walked away without looking back.

She watched his retreating figure in despair.

Yet, when she was being auctioned off, he bought her for three times the price of an ordinary girl.

He led her away from the murky auction house. He walked ahead, and she followed his every step timidly behind.

He looked back at her, his silhouette backlit, and to the young girl she was, he seemed godlike—handsome and towering.

His gaze was indifferent as he told her, "From today on, you're mine. But I should warn you, life with me can be hard, perhaps even harder than being bought by someone else. Are you afraid?"

She shook her head firmly. "I’m not!"

Boyce handed Lambert's resume to Jonathan, pausing before adding gravely, "There's one more thing."

Jonathan glanced at Lambert's information and said flatly, "Go on."

Boyce said, "The Brennan family has constructed a traditional shrine in their Citadel estate, dedicated to the memorial tablet of Stella."

Jonathan's head snapped up, his expression changing, "Stella?"

"Yes," Boyce continued, "Lambert took part in one peacekeeping mission. It’s likely that he met Stella during the war."

Jonathan let out a crude expletive. He had thought their encounter had been a chance meeting, but he hadn’t anticipated such a deep-rooted connection!

Lambert had set up a shrine and a memorial tablet for Stella?

So, was that why he went to gaze at Stella's memorial tablet every day?