Emily had gone back to the kitchen to prepare dinner, while Stella remained on the sofa, thinking about what Emily had said.
"Ding... Dong..."
Suddenly, the sound of her phone ringing snapped her out of her thoughts. Without checking the caller ID, she answered it.
"Stella..."
A familiar yet distant voice came out of the other end of the phone.
It was her father, David Richard.
Stella's grip on the phone tightened. She wasn’t sure how to feel. It had been nine years since she last heard this voice.
Throughout her three-year marriage to RK, her father had never once called or visited.
Even after her divorce, when she moved to France for six years, he never reached out to ask about her well-being.
If not for this unexpected call, she would have almost thought that he forgot that h
