"Stella, what's wrong with you? Why are you avoiding me?"
Seeing the strange look on Stella Lockwood's face, Don Joyce walked over, reaching out to put his arm around her.
Stella Lockwood dodged him immediately, then stared at him coldly. "Joyce, please have some self-respect."
Those words, "have some self-respect," made Don Joyce freeze. He blinked, then turned to look at Serena Lockwood, completely failing to understand the situation. "She... What's wrong with her? Why is she suddenly acting so distant?"
Serena Lockwood didn't understand either. Stella's reaction was just too strange. It seemed that when she'd said she wanted to keep her distance from Don Joyce, she wasn't joking. She was serious.
'But it made no sense.' Serena knew better than anyone just how obsessed Stella had been with Don Joyce. 'How could she just flip a switch like that?'
"I have no idea!" Serena Lockwood shrugged and held out her hands.
