All the evidence they had uncovered before had pointed to Dora.
But who would have thought they were wrong?
Dora hadn’t actually caused her mother’s death.
She had simply stood by and refused to help.
Stella closed her eyes.
For a moment, she didn’t know what to say.
She listened to the wind outside, and somehow it felt as though the bitter wind sweeping through the town near Sima Mountain had blown her thoughts into chaos too.
Felix’s broad hand settled over hers.
“Stella.”
“What a joke,” Stella murmured. “All of it was one enormous joke.”
Felix said nothing.
“How can fate mess with someone like this?”
The Hogarth family had turned out to be a cruel joke.
And now everything with the Wright family had become another one.
“None of that has anything to do with you anymore,” Felix said. “As far as Evan is concerned, you’re already dead.”
Stella fell silent.
Dead.
Apparently, even dying wasn’t enough to give her peace.
Evan probably hated her now.
Felix tightened his hand slightly over hers.
“What happened between you and Evan didn’t begin because of your mother. You know that, don’t you?”
He didn’t want Stella tormenting herself over this.
After all...
No one could have imagined things would turn out this way.
Stella gave a bitter laugh.
“You’re right. The problems between us didn’t start because of my mother.”
They had started because of Summer.
Evan’s sister-in-law.
But what did that change?
The reason Stella had ultimately gone so hard against the Wright family had been her mother.
If it had only been about Summer, Stella never would have gone as far as she had against them.
But now...
Everything she had done felt like one huge mistake.
Felix looked at her.
“Then stop thinking about it. Anything involving Evan or Aaron is in the past for you now.”
Even if those things were still happening right this moment, to Stella, they had to belong to the past.
Because neither Evan nor Aaron existed in her life anymore.
Stella was quiet for a long moment.
Then she asked,


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