But as they were leaving after their meal, her phone rang.
She glanced at it. The call was from her mother, and she felt an inexplicable wave of irritation.
'This can't be good.'
After a moment's hesitation, she answered. But before she could even get a word out, her mother's screams erupted from the other end. "Stella Lockwood, wasn't it enough that you caused your grandfather's death? Are you trying to kill your sister now, too? If anything happens to Rhea, Stella Lockwood, I swear I'll make you pay with your life..."
'We have the same mother,' she thought. 'I really don't understand why I'm the one who gets treated like this.'
"What happened to Rhea?" Instead of complaining about the injustice, she deliberately fell behind the others as she walked to the car and asked quietly, a faint sense of unease creeping into her heart.
