chapter1497

Back at the company, Stella took out her phone and saw a message from L.

"Summer, I remember you once said that you had also been through a low point in your life. Can I ask how you got through it?"

Stella replied, "I was lucky. I met someone who pulled me out."

A moment later, another message came from L.

"Is that person very important to you?"

Stella was a bit surprised by the message. L rarely asked such personal questions.

But she didn't mind. "Very," she typed back. "But not in that way."

L pressed on, "If that person was a light in your darkness, how can you be so sure you don't love him?"

Stella replied, "There are many kinds of feelings. He helped me, and I'm very grateful to him. But I know that gratitude and salvation are not the same as love."

Lasked, "So you're saying salvation isn't love?"

Stella wrote back, "Feelings are a personal thing. For me, gratitude and salvation aren't love."

L asked, "What do you think of people who do mistake gratitude and salvation for love?"

Stella didn't have much dating experience herself. She thought for a long time before replying to L's message.

"L, have you found someone you like?"

On the other end of the line, Leonard froze.

A moment later, another message popped up on his phone.

"The birth of feelings can be very simple, and also very complex. It can be as simple as falling in love at first sight. Or it can be complex, requiring a long time of getting to know

of time to

someone and the passage o gradually develop feelings. As f?r what you said about gratitude and salvation... If I had very few emotional connections-no family, no friends, no experience with love-I might cling to that salvation. Because that would be the only kindness the world had ever shown

me. Of course, this is just my

personal opinion. I don't know if it

helps you."

Apart from her unlucky love life, Stella had many emotional

connections. Although she lacked a father's love, she didn't lack family She was also good at making friends, with Abby and Antoney Watson, two people who would never abandon her, no matter what.

That was the reason her heart was so full, and why she had given Haynes and Keen

so much of what she once thought was love.

Leonard stared blankly at the screen. He suddenly wondered, was this how she usually comforted Joshua? Was this why Joshua was willing to stay by her side as a mere bodyguard?

He thought about how Stella not only cooked for Joshua, celebrated his birthday; and gave him birthday gifts, but also protected him with all her might when he was at his weakest and most vulnerable She had even chosen to believe in him without hesitation when everyone else doubted him.

He and Joshua were both ruthless people who would do anything to achieve their goals. So why did he end up with nothing, while Joshua got to have so much?

It was unfair. It was so incredibly unfair.

Leonard's fingers, clutching the phone, tightened bit by bit. Under the immense pressure, the phone began to crack and splinter.

Stella, who had been waiting for L's reply, was about to put her phone down when another message popped up.

"Are you this good to everyone?"

Stella replied, "Of course not. Only to people I think are worth it."