The Ex-Wife's Burning Elegance novel Chapter 2118

Only then did Stella realize she had actually followed him into his bedroom.

They hadn't known each other for long, and they hadn't met many times. Such behavior was truly inappropriate.

No wonder Joshua asked that.

Would he think of her as the kind of woman who casually goes home with any man?

Stella instinctively explained, "I've never been to Leonard's house, nor any other man's house. As for you..."

Stella looked at Joshua and said softly, "You're Laurel's friend. I trust her judgment; she wouldn't be wrong."

Joshua took a step forward, his long legs slowly closing the distance between them.

As Joshua drew nearer, a flurry of panic inevitably rose in Stella's chest.

A bedroom was everyone's most private space.

Even though she was best friends with Abby Murphy, she wouldn't casually wander into Abby's bedroom when visiting her house.

Yet now, for the sake of looking at a pair of earrings, she had walked right into Joshua's bedroom.

Could Joshua have gotten the wrong idea?

It was approaching midnight.

Outside the window, everything was pitch black.

Although the room was brightly lit, it felt slightly dim compared to the daytime.

The tall, lean figure of the man slowly approached, and the entire space seemed to close in around her.

Joshua stopped right in front of her, his gaze growing exceptionally intense.

"You don't seem scared at all." He sounded genuinely puzzled. "Do you trust me that much?"

Though slightly flustered, Stella truly didn't worry that Joshua would do anything to her.

"Yes, I trust that you're not that kind of person," Stella affirmed.

"I don't even know what kind of person I am myself." Joshua's dark eyes seemed to hold the night itself, deep and endless.

He stared into Stella's eyes, speaking slowly and deliberately. "We are in the middle of nowhere. There is no one else in this villa but you and me.

Joshua stopped teasing her and shifted the subject. "Actually, I suspected a while ago that Aurora wasn't the person I was looking for."

Stella looked at him. "How did you figure it out?"

Joshua walked over to the window, casting his gaze down at the flowers on the sill. "It's simple. Her playing was completely different from what I heard the first time. You could even say it was the polar opposite."

"Are her skills really that bad?" Stella asked.

Even though Aurora hadn't touched a violin in a few years, she had studied it since childhood and had been guided by masters.

No matter how lacking her natural talent was, with so many excellent resources piled on her, she couldn't be terribly bad at it.

"It's not about the technique," Joshua explained. "It's the emotion conveyed in her music. It's like listening to an entirely different person compared to back then.

"Even if years have passed and her state of mind has changed.

"A person's core nature doesn't just change."

Stella played the violin herself, so she naturally understood that music had life and emotion.