The joyful atmosphere lasted well into the night.
For the first time, Stephanie found herself surrounded by so many people. Members of the Campbell family, familiar and unfamiliar, all seemed eager to greet her. Everyone wanted to be in her good graces.
Except for one person—the head of the Campbell family, Victor, who stood apart from the festivities, a dark cloud of displeasure hovering around him.
"Stephanie." Victor's gravelly voice called out to her as she exited the bathroom. They stood in silence for a moment before he finally spoke again, "Don't trust Theodore too much..."
"And I'm supposed to trust you instead?" Stephanie shot back, unwilling to hear anything more from him.
Once, as a child, she might have harbored some hope that Victor could be a real father. But now, all sh
