“Natalie? If she truly was Stella, why did she not recognize me? Her bone marrow has changed, so her DNA has also changed, right?” Jasper Milton did not believe it at all. He started bombarding Eli with questions.
“Stella said that she did not want to drag you down in the future, so she showed up in front of you again with a new appearance, and a new identity,” Eli Wayne explained.
“What do you mean that she did not want to drag me down? But she deliberately came to my company to apply for a tutor job,” Jasper was still unconvinced.
“That’s because Dante is her child. She misses her own child. A year ago, when she knew that Dante was by your side, she ran out of the laboratory in a bid to see Dante.
But at that time, an adverse drug reaction occurred in her body, and the side effects were serious. She fainted shortly after she ran out, so she had to change her bone marrow and blood in order to survive,” Eli said anxiously.
“Why didn’t you tell me all this earlier? Why must you tell me now? Could it be that everything is going according to your plans and therefore it is the right time to tell me all about it now?” Jasper asked suspiciously
Eli could tell that he did not believe her. She was angry and she immediately raised her voice, “That’s because Sean has just developed the antidote. Now that Stella has returned to normal, I want to regain my freedom. But Sean threatened me. He said that if I run away, he will seek revenge on Stella and my parents.”
“Is that really the case? Let’s see, if I may offer another possibility to all these – you’re already Sean’s partner, so you found a woman who is extremely similar to Stella. You want to plant her by my side and replace Stella’s position in my heart so that she can control me,” Jasper said coldly.
Eli was about to explode with anger, “It’s fine if you don’t believe me, but how dare you accuse me like this. I’m sorry, I take back what I said. Stella doesn’t want to be with you. It’s not because she’s afraid of dragging you down, but because she doesn’t like you at all.”
“What did you say?” Jasper’s voice was cold as ice.
“Isn’t it? Otherwise, why is Stella still unwilling to come back to you even though she has already recovered? You probably have forgotten what you have done to her. You drove her away without any reason, spoke rudely to her and slandered her directly. If I were Stella, I would stay far away from you too. Go to h*ll!” Eli hung up the phone in rage.
She smashed the phone on the bed.
She must have been crazy to tell Jasper that Natalie was Stella and hoped for him to protect Natalie.
How could that be possible?
Jasper did not trust her at all, let alone Natalie.
Now she knew that she could not rely on Jasper anymore.
A stroke of inspiration flashed across Eli’s mind.
Wasn’t Allen a nobleman from France? He even inherited the title from his mother, which meant that he came from a family of nobles. Sean even said that his wealth was comparable to that of the whole nation. Perhaps his powers and influence in France were on par with Jasper’s. If Allen accepted Stella and brought Dante to seek refuge with him, she would then be able to live happily for the rest of her life. She would definitely not be as lonely as she was now.
Bingo!
Eli finally knew what she should do.
“Stella, Stella,” Eli found Natalie, who had started running again. Perhaps because her body had started to recover, Eli felt that Natalie seemed to have lost a lot of weight.
Natalie Wheeler knocked on Eli’s head and said, “Refer to me as Natalie. You should fix this habit of yours. Blurting out my real name would not bring any good to any of us.”
“Have you bought your clothes?” Eli asked.
“I bought some yesterday,” Natalie replied.
“I haven’t bought any yet.” Eli thought of the new clothes she was wearing at that moment and smiled awkwardly. “Sean asked his men to buy some for me, but I don’t like it. Could you accompany me to go buy some right now?”
“Okay. I’ll take a shower, change my clothes and go with you,” Natalie agreed immediately.
They drove to the mall and had breakfast on the way. Eli bought a lot of beautiful clothes, and she also bought two pieces of clothes for Natalie. They also had their lunch outside.
After lunch, Eli insisted on going to the salon. She asked the stylist to get Natalie a bob haircut and dye her hair a brownish-blonde color.
“I think this hairstyle is particularly suitable for you. Your face is small. With this style, no one will doubt that you are 23 years old,” Eli said with satisfaction.
Natalie stared at Eli and said, “You bought clothes for me and took me to the salon. You even insisted on paying for me. You want me to go to the auction, don’t you?”
Eli grinned and confessed, “I can’t hide anything from you. I don’t have the guts to go alone. I’ve never been to an auction, so I can’t figure out other people’s minds. I will be more at ease if you have by my side.
Natalie knew that this auction was very important to Eli. She calmed down and said in a low voice, “I’ll go with you.”
“Yay, I’m relieved to have you with me,” Eli picked up the makeup brush on the table, “Let the makeup artist do the makeup for you. The guests who will be attending the auction today are from the upper-class society. If we don’t dress ourselves up, those people would definitely look down at us.”
“What are you thinking about again?” Natalie asked.
“What do you mean? I’m happy as long as you look beautiful,” Eli was afraid of being seen through by Natalie, so she immediately ran out of the room and called for the makeup artist.
However, Natalie had already noticed her strange and guilty behavior.
She knew that Eli had been hoping that she would find a man, but her heart… had long died on that deserted island. It would never revive again.
At 7 p. m., they went to the auction together.
It was a buffet party. The auction would begin at eight o’clock, and the guests were allowed to have dinner inside.
Natalie ate very little. She took only a piece of steak and a glass of red wine and sat in the corner.
Eli, on the other hand, brought a lot of food. She glanced at Natalie’s plate and sat across her, “You kept gaining weight because of the medications you took. Now that you have recovered and no longer need the medicine, you will slim down quickly. You don’t have to torture your stomach anymore, do you?”
“I’m used to it. This is enough nutrition for a day,” Natalie said lightly.
Eli cast a glance at the food on the table that she had brought. Her heart was filled with guilt.
Prior to this, she would keep overeating during meals so that she would gain more weight. She thought that Sean would dislike her if she had gotten fat.
However, she would finally be free soon, so she should not be overeating anymore.
Eli ended up only eating a piece of steak. She had learned from Natalie to chew her food slowly, pairing it with red wine to increase her body’s metabolism.
Natalie smiled at her, lowered her head and continued to eat. Feeling a shadow approaching, she looked up subconsciously and saw Frederick Addington.
He looked handsome and refined on the surface, but only the women by his side would know his true nature.
Natalie looked away silently and continued to eat, as if she did not want to talk to him.
Frederick smiled evilly and did not go away. He said softly, “I didn’t expect to see you here. I went to your hotel to find you, but you seemed to have disappeared. It turns out that you have come to X Country.”
Natalie did not say anything and pretended that she did not hear it.
Frederick was embarrassed. He cleared his throat and whispered, “Could we get to know each other a little better?”
Natalie put her cutlery down on the table, leaned back on the chair, and squinted at Frederick, “I heard that you played with more than a hundred women in the three years after you got married?”
Frederick paused all of a sudden and looked at Eli.
Eli smiled, holding her cutlery, and shook her head gleefully.