Chapter 16: A Painful Past.

Then Stella spoke up again: "Jacob, what's wrong? Why aren't you answering? My brother is asking you."

Jacob looked from Stella to Hubert, bit his lip, and after a moment, he said slowly: "I am your sister's boyfriend."

Hubert seemed to freeze, standing rigid until Canis spoke again, rousing him back to reality: "Is that true? Then why did you pretend not to know each other earlier?"

"Well, when ex-lovers meet, what is there to say? We've been talking and found that feelings remain, so we're rekindling our old relationship."

Canis said nothing more. He had just thought Jacob was reliable, but now he felt nothing but antipathy. Stella was his sister, or more precisely, his half-sister. And her mother was his mother's younger sister, who is currently Madam Wang.

He never had any prejudices against his stepmother and her two children because, apart from being his stepmother, she is also his maternal aunt. But since Stella did that to Hubert, he has completely alienated his stepmother, St
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