Chapter 1343

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She picked up the clothes and discovered that they were impossible to wear in such a state. She could
not help but glare at the man sleeping in bed before stuffing her clothes into the dryer.
Stella took a quick tour around the apartment and found that it contained no items that might belong to a
woman. For some reason, this discovery relieved her, considering she had nothing to do with Weston
anymore.
After she was done with all that, Weston still remained sleeping. She looked at how deeply he was
sleeping and decided not to wake him up, and just walked out of the
room.
She looked around for his study because she wanted to use his computer. It ended up being very easy to
find because the apartment had Weston’s usual favorite layout, and since Stella had spent years living
with him in the past, she was naturally familiar with his preferences.
She opened the door and was instantly faced with a wall densely covered with photos. She was rooted to
the spot and just stood there at the door, not taking a single step inside.
Even from a distance, she could clearly see that the wall was covered with photos of her.
Stunned, she stood there in a daze. It took her a long time before she regained her senses.
Finally, she closed the door behind her and took furtive steps into the room. In the center of the wall was
a
picture of their wedding. In fact, they did not have any official wedding pictures taken at all when they got
married the first time. Their wedding had been extremely simple and ad–hoc because Weston wasmerely using it as a tool to free himself from his father’s control.
Weston did explain later that he did not marry Stella because of Guinevere Cohen, and it was surely not
to make Guinevere jealous and crawl back to him.
Nevertheless, he could not deny that the marriage was an act of defiance on his part, as it was his way
of telling his family he refused to walk down the path laid out for him by his father. He also had no
intention of taking the blame for his father, nor did he want to spend the rest of his life with a woman he
did not love.
Ultimately, their marriage was only Weston’s way of controlling his own destiny.
But he still had to give in and go along with his father’s plan in the end because Guinevere had gotten
pregnant- with Chris Ford’s child. He was then forced to marry the woman who was the mother of his
half–brother.
As Stella thought of this, she began to understand what Weston had to go through. Had she been in his
place, she
was not sure what choices she would have made. She was not even convinced that she could do any
better than he did.
It was only because Weston had terribly hurt her that she just could not find a way to let go of all the pain
he had caused her.
After all, the breakdown of their marriage had come at an excruciatingly painful cost–the death of her
unborn
child. Every time she saw Weston’s face, she was
reminded of the tragic loss of her own flesh and blood and the unbearable sorrow that came with it.As she slowly walked into the room, she noticed that the wedding photo was one that they had taken
after Weston had forced her to stay in Stardust Mansion.
Stella had lost all her feelings for Weston by then, but as she was still forced to do as he wished, the
result was the very awkward smile on her face in the photo. It was very obvious that there was no
sincerity. She remembered how even the photographer had asked her to act more naturally and try to
look more sincere back then.
But that only made Weston angry at the photographer. His face quickly darkened, and he demanded to
get a different photographer right away.
All the events in that period felt so distant from her current life, almost as if they had happened in a
different lifetime, even though it had only been three years ago.
Apart from the wedding photo, there were many more pictures of her that Weston had taken without her
knowledge. She was smiling brightly like a blooming flower in some of them. In others, her smiles were
fake as she was obviously only trying to appease him. In some pictures, she was completely
expressionless, while in others, she looked sad and gloomy…
There were so many photos there, and they all shared one thing in common–her.
She wasn’t even familiar with some of those photos. She was not sure when or why she ever showed the
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obviously taken when she was losing control of herself…
But among that wall of pictures, none of them had been taken during their first year of marriage. Weston
seemed to have sneakily taken all these photos when Stella was locked up in Stardust Mansion after
their divorce.It looked like Weston fell hopelessly in love with her during that time. But when did his feelings start to
develop?
Stella went on to stare at the pictures and noticed one that caught her eye.
It was the only photo that was taken in their first year of marriage.
She was in the kitchen, but she was not wearing an apron. Instead, it looked like she had just got back
from
somewhere else. She seemed to be in a rush and did not have the time to tie up her hair yet, and it
casually draped down on her back. She was holding a tomato in her hands, which she was washing in
the sink.
She had no idea why Weston would take that picture of her.