Thinking of Leonard, Abby suddenly looked at Stella.
"Star, the fact that Leonard is L… is that confirmed?"
At the mention of this, a shadow fell over Stella's face.
"Simone Lerman admitted it. There's no mistake."
"So, did you ask Leonard what he's up to?" Abby said.
"No. I blocked him immediately. There's nothing for us to talk about."
Abby was taken aback. "…You just blocked him like that?"
She had thought Stella would at least ask Leonard what he was trying to accomplish. She hadn't expected Stella to not even bother asking.
Abby hesitated before saying, "Star, do you think… maybe Leonard didn't know you were Summer?"
"Even if he didn't know at first, my identity as Summer was exposed when I started working with the Quinn family later on. He definitely found out then."
Abby probed, "Star, what do you think Leonard's motive was for hiding his identity to chat with you?"
Stella picked up her glass and took a sip of water, answering nonchalantly, "To gain my trust, only to backstab me?"
Abby was skeptical. "Does Leonard seem like that patient of a person? And… he adopted the little tabby…"
Abby didn't have a good impression of Leonard either. But she found it hard to reconcile him with L, the kind-hearted girl who had a pure love for painting. Even knowing they were the same person, it felt jarring.
"That little tabby is probably long dead by now," Stella said. "The photos Leonard sent us were probably just of some random tabby cat his men found."
Abby immediately refuted Stella's theory. "I don't think so. That tabby had a distinct patch of fur on its front paw, which makes it easy to identify. I paid special attention to its features because I was worried L was pretending to adopt it just to abuse it. It has to be the same cat, I'm sure of it."
"Maybe he kept the cat alive because he was afraid we'd get suspicious," Stella said.

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The same rotation blaming Stella trying to get her destroyed. Isn't the writer tired of writing the same foolishness overand over again? This is exhausting....
Can’t wait to see what joshua will do...
Why would the author of this book do that to Stella? Such cruelty!...
So many chapters are incomplete. Missing pages. Hard to get continuity...
Please move on from Stella's troubles, we need more exiting news. Like Joshua discovering that Stella is the one he has been looking for,the owner of the earring....
Seriously, how long will this get stretched ?? Looks like the whole world is set to trouble Stella... It's not moving anywhere.....
Hey...please update regularly...
Is Jasper gay? He certainly behaves that way....