James' heart thumped hard against his chest that Stella, feeling the vibration, couldn't help but furrow her brow in confusion.
She had only planned to use the company as leverage and get James to tell her the truth.
The truth of her lineage.
Her existence.
Why he had always suppressed every detail of her existence.
Yet, he always had to remind her that she was adopted.
What an unfair game?
She wants to know why he had kept her in the dark about this other part of the world she was part of.
And not until recently when she fell into the hands of Adrian.
A man who was also a part of that life he had kept away from her.
While Stella had her thoughts race with questions she had no answer to, James stared at her in confusion.
"No, it's impossible…impossible, not now, not ever."
"You can't be the daughter of that woman?" He muttered silently, forcing himself to believe it.
Stella's gaze locked on him, probing and cold. James swallowed and exhaled sharply.
