Chapter 72 Ungrateful
Ashen laughed as well. “Hahaha, looks like not everyone is cut out for wearing Stella’s clothes”
Meanwhile, Thomas and Kate exchanged looks of pure disdain.
It was as though Davina was somehow ruining Stella’s clothes by wearing them.
After that moment, Davina never dared to wear those outfits again.
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At the Summer Mansion.
“Mom, do you think this new
new outfit is pretty?”
Stella as
asked, holding up a new garment
and
striking a pose in front of the
Kate raised an eyebrow, slightly frowning. “How many clothes do you need? You buy dozens of new things every month, and it’s still not enough?”
Stella quickly moved closer, pouting. “Oh, Mom, a girl just needs to look good, right?”
Stella could tell Kate had been colder toward her lately, so she tried to charm her back.
Seeing Stella act so sweetly, Kate’s mood lifted a little.
Recently, when Kate went out for her regular card games, the other wealthy wives had started treating her differently,
In fact, many of the more prestigious women had begun to ignore her altogether.
There was a time when they’d ask about Stella, trying to stay on good terms with her, but now, no one mentioned her at all
They only brought up Blair and Lewis from time to time.
Kate had heard from one of the women she was friendly with that the high–society circles were gossiping about Stella’s behavior at Harlow Group’s dinner. They said she didn’t come across as a well–bred young woman from a respectable family. and some even questioned whether Stella was truly their biological daughter.
“Honestly, Stella doesn’t look like either you or your husband. She doesn’t even resemble her four brothers. Are you sure your famaly doesn’t have some kind of genetic mutation?”
Kate’s face flushed with anger upon hearing this, but the woman kept talking.
“Til tell you, biological children and adopted ones are just different. Adopted ones are ungrateful—no matter how much you try, they never fully bond with you. That’s just how genetics work. Remember that woman who adopted a daughter, and the girl ran off with a thug, spending the family’s money to help her real parents? Tak, tsk. But I’ll say this–Stella seems like a good girl, whether she’s your biological daughter or not. She’s always respectful”
The woman spoke with a hint of gossip, clearly eager to find out if Stella was truly a Summers.
Kate snapped back immediately. “Even if Stella isn’t my biological daughter, I raised her She’s ours, and we’ve raised her ourselves. She’s nothing like those other adopted girls. When you raise someone yourself, you form a bond. She would never betray us
The woman chuckled awkwardly, clearly uncomfortable with the subject
She quickly changed the topic “Right, right. By the way, I heard that the heiress from Barlow Group is incredibly beautiful All the other wives have been praising her lately And can you believe it? She shares the same last name as the Summers
Sensing the change in Kate’s attitude, the woman quickly went quiet
She hadn’t been at Barlow Group dinner herself, she had only heard about it from the others, so she wasn’t entirely aware of what had really happened
What she didir know was that at the dinner, the Barlows heiress had thrown a drink on Noelia and hadiri bern particularly
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But apart from that, the constant admiration for Davina made Kate uneasy.
Especially when people started comparing Stella to Davina, always putting Stella in the shadow of the other.
One was a daughter Kate didn’t care for, the other was her cherished adopted child.
This contrast made Kate feel increasingly uncomfortable.
The more she looked at Stella, the more she saw her own mother, Nydia, in her face.
That thought caused Kate to frown even deeper.
While she truly believed that Stella was the daughter she should love, the words she’d overheard had unsettled her a sense of discomfort began to grow within her.
So when she saw Stella buying all these expensive items, Kate felt a sudden twinge of uncase
When Davina had lived with them, she didn’t seem to buy as much clothing.
Stella, on the other hand, would hand over her unused clothes to Davina.
At the time, Kate had thought Stella was being thoughtful.
