At first, Stella had not thought of it that way. However, she suddenly understood what Roger meant after
listening to what he had just said. Roger was...
Stella was so shocked and lost for words. She stood up and raised her voice at once. “No way!”
That was impossible!
Stella panicked, looking as if she had seen a ghost. Did she misunderstand him? Or...
“Absolutely no way!” Stella kept repeating the same thing.” You‘re my brother! We‘re siblings ! We‘re
family! How can you say such things?”
“But we‘re not even related!” Roger decided to go all out and rasped, “I just want to be with you for the
rest of my life. Is that wrong?!”
“No wonder...” That explained why Roger was so resistant whenever she talked about having their own
families in the future.
Stella calmed herself and rasped, “Stop saying such outrageous words! You‘ll always be my brother. This
won‘t change...”
“What if I say no?” Roger had clearly made up his mind. He took
Stella‘s hand with determined eyes and refused to let go.
“You‘re being ridiculous !” Stella shook off his hand and looked at him as if he was a monster. “We‘re
siblings! Even if we‘re not related by blood, we have been family for many years. How can you...”
Stella could not even finish her sentence. She was a traditional and conservative person at heart and
could not accept such a taboo relationship.
Roger was hesitant, but Stella‘s strong refusal and resistance was clear. He knew there was no way
back.
He just stared straight at her and said, “I don‘t want to be your family anymore...
“Family can’t be together forever. You‘ll eventually marry another man and have his child. You keep
saying I‘ll start my family one day, but I don‘t want to!”
Roger suddenly got emotional. “I just want to be with you for the rest of my life!”
He enunciated word for word, “If that‘s the case, why can‘t we be together and start a family?”
“Shut up!” Stella‘s eyes grew red. Her hands were shaking from this absurdity. “Do you know what you‘re
saying? If Mom and Dad were alive and heard you say such things...”
“So what if they heard? So what?”
Roger uttered, “I just want to be with you forever... What‘s wrong with that...”
He lifted his hand and grabbed Stella‘s hand in a pleading manner. “Can‘t you leave with me? Let‘s get
out of here and never come back...”
Stella was shaking in a fury. She would never do such a thing!
Roger would always be her younger brother in her eyes. There was no doubt about that. She was going
to tell Roger about her plans, but it seemed like there was no longer a need for that.
“No. I can‘t go with you.” Stella pushed him away and looked at him. She said steadily, “Weston didn‘t
threaten me. He doesn‘t have anything on me...
“I‘m marrying him of my own free will.”
Roger refused to listen. He just could not accept it. “No way! He hurt you so much before. How could
you,”
“Don‘t talk about the past anymore!” Stella cut him off.
“Didn‘t you hear what he said yesterday? He‘ll make it up to me. I don‘t want the past to affect the
present and future. We‘ll have to move on eventually.”
“I don‘t believe it!”
Roger grabbed her hand tightly and looked at her with his red eyes. “Have you forgotten what he did to
you? Because of him, my little nephew died. Because of him, you can‘t be a mother again...”
Stella clenched her fists.
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