Female NovelWhen I saw Grayson's hesitant demeanor, I guessed what it was about. "Spill it. Is it related to me?"
"I found Stella after the Pierce family had trouble back then," Grayson said, looking at me with some hesitation.
My heart skipped a beat, and I looked at Grayson. His expression made me curious and reinforced my belief that this was definitely not a simple clue.
"You mean the real Stella?" I asked eagerly. "Tell me, quick. I want to hear it. This will be useful."
Grayson looked at me, nodded firmly, and said, "Okay.
"After Lucille passed away, Celine forced Stella to go to an orphanage. At that time, Atlas refused to agree no matter what. He didn't want to be separated from Stella. But he was just a child and couldn't stop it from happening. He could only watch helplessly as they took little Stella away. They just said they sent her to an orphanage, but no one knew where she had been sent."
My heart suddenly ached.
"Atlas cried and screamed after Stella was taken away. Finally, he developed a high fever and was taken away by the Lively family. Later, David stepped in and took ATL Empire back, officially entrusting it to Celine to manage."
"David is a confused fool. All the disasters in the Pierce family started because of him." I muttered to myself.
Grayson looked at me in surprise. "You knew about this?"
"Grandma Rose told me. I just had a general idea, and I didn't know any details. That's why I wanted to get the whole story. I can't really ask Atlas about it. After all, I'm afraid of reopening his wounds," I explained to Grayson.
"I understand what you mean." Since he had followed me for so long, Grayson understood my state of mind.
"Every one of those memories is heart-wrenching for him. I don't want him to recall them more than once," I said sincerely.
That was why I had held back from asking him anything. It wasn't because I didn't want to know.
"What happened afterward?" I looked at Grayson. "Did Stella end up in that unknown orphanage hidden in the mountains?"
"Yes. That's why Mr. Atlas escaped
from the Lively family later on," Grayson, revealed another piece of information. "He became the target of pursuit because he broke away from the Lively family."
"He escaped from the Lively family?" I questioned. "Was it because he wanted to look for Stella?"
Grayson nodded confidently. "Yes."
"How old was he?" I murmured. I understood Atlas's feelings because he had once told me that Lucille had entrusted him with taking care of Stella.
My nose tingled. I couldn't bear to think about how helpless Atlas was back then, and how difficult it must have been for him.
"By then, Stella had already been in the orphanage for two years," Grayson continued. "Mr. Atlas escaped from the Lively family precisely because they wouldn't tell him where Stella was." "Two years," I repeated in a whisper. "They forced those children apart for two years. How cruel."
Grayson also expressed his distress. "After this incident, the Lively family and the Pierce family completely severed es. At that time, David was almost useless. He spent his days in self-reflection. He showed no concern whatsoever for Atlas's situation."
Images of a young Atlas flashed in my mind. No wonder he had become so aloof and cold.
"Later, a little girl joined the Pierce family. Celine claimed it was Stella."
"The impostor?"
Grayson nodded, confirming that it was her. The timeline matched up to when she first appeared.
"When Atlas heard that Stella hadContents belong to NovelDrama.Org
returned to the Pierce family, he secretly returned as well. But he realized that she was not the reaf Stella He was enraged and vowed to find the real Stella and uncover the cause of Lucille's death."
"He was so young," I couldn't help but sigh. It was undoubtedly this incident that had sparked the subsequent pursuit against him.