At the Glinton Hotel, Stella Wood, who was nine months pregnant, trudged through the corridors, holding her belly and looking around.
She thought, "Today is the day of my engagement with Alex, and it is almost time. Why did he disappear?"
A familiar and soft voice suddenly came, "Alex, are you going to get engaged to Stella, my adopted sister? She is not pregnant with your child!"
Stella stopped and looked in the direction of the voice. She saw her sister, Sophie Wood, hugging Alex Brook in the stairwell.
Alex held Sophie's slender waist and said in a low voice, "That night when she was raped, I was next door. I knew that she was not pregnant with my child. But if she knew that you were the one who designed all this, how could she give you 15% of her shares?"
"I just can't figure it out. Stella is an adopted daughter. Why does grandpa still give her 15% of the shares?"
Sophie said, clinging to him as if in coquetry.
"Do you dislike me for saying that? Do you think that I'm cruel and merciless, that I'm not the real daughter of the Wood family, and that's why you like my sister and don't like me?"
"Little Fool, what nonsense are you talking about? From the moment your mother replaced you with a daughter of the Wood family, you were the real daughter of the Wood family! Besides, Stella is so shabby and unattractive. Not to mention that she is the real daughter of the Wood family, even if she is a royal princess, I won't like her."
"After getting all her shares after marriage, I will divorce her and give you a grand wedding!"
"Today, I will compensate you first."
As Alex spoke, he lifted her short skirt up.
The horny voices of the two soon sounded in the stairwell.
Stella was stunned as if she had been struck by thunder.
The child in her belly was not Alex's!
On the night she lost her virginity, she didn't give it to Alex, but was schemed by Sophie!
Moreover, she was not the adopted but the real daughter of the Wood family. She was replaced by Sophie!
She had been abused since she was a child because of her status as an adopted daughter. It was her sister, Sophie, who had given her warmth. Sophie had protected her and told her that she didn't need to study hard and just wanted her to be happy.
Stella treated Sophie as a close relative and the only one. Stella also gave Sophie all the good things, all the good opportunities her grandfather had given her, including the only opportunity to study at Mona.
But Stella didn't expect that Sophie would harm her! Sophie had even schemed against Stella for eighteen years!
Stella's fiancé was aware of all of that and even participated in it, conspiring against her alongside Sophie!
Stella staggered backward and collided with the vase next to her feet.
When Alex and Sophie, who were having sex, turned their heads and looked around, their pupils contracted.
"Stella! Why are you here?" Alex frowned.
Sophie pushed Alex away and tidied up her clothes to explain, "It's not what you think. He and I were just joking. He didn't even go in. Alex loves you..."
"Love me? He loved nothing so much as my share, my entire Wood family fortune! Alex, Sophie, today I will let everyone see your true colors!"
Stella went downstairs.
There were all the nobles in Ladrid City and all the relatives of the Wood family and the Brook family downstairs. She wanted to let everyone know that Sophie was the adopted daughter! She wanted everyone to know Alex and Sophie's purpose!
Alex grabbed her wrist and said, "Don't make trouble! You were impregnated by rape. How could I be engaged to you if it were not for the shares in your hands? Why are you to be so arrogant?"
"If I don't marry you, who would marry someone like you who lost her virginity and got pregnant at the age of 18?"
Stella thought, "Yes, I was only 18 years old! I could have gone to university, but I was set up by Sophie, got pregnant and was completely unable to study. I could only get engaged to Alex and be a woman who was despised by everyone!"
"I had felt happy before, but now it seemed disgusting!"
Stella said, "Even if I die alone, I won't be with an animal like you!"
Stella shook off his hand and continued to go downstairs.
Sophie's eyes turned cold, and she thought, "If that matter got out, I would be ruined!"
Sophie said, "Stella!"
She reached out to pull Stella, but in fact, gave her a hard push.
Stella was caught off guard and rolled down the stairs in an instant.
Her big belly hit the wall, and blood flowed out between her legs.
Sophie seemed to be scared out of her wits. Her face was pale.
"Alex, what should I do... I didn't do it on purpose... I want to hold her... I'm so scared..."
"Don't be afraid. She knows our plan. She deserves to die! It's her fault!"
There was a trace of cruelty in Alex's eyes. He went downstairs and kicked at Stella's belly.
One kick, two kicks, three kicks...
Stella was in so much pain that she felt like she was being torn apart.
That was the childhood sweetheart she had loved since she was a child. That man, who said that he didn't mind her being an adopted daughter and would protect her for the rest of his life, was so cruel to her!
She hated him so much! She was unwilling to let them go!
However, more and more blood stained her white dress and the ground...
In the intense pain, she lost consciousness.