Severed Ties

Stella noticed Miriam didn't take the tissue she offered and calmly retracted her hand. Once, she was Stella Kensington, a young lady from a second-rate rich family. Even as the girlfriend of that old woman's younger son, she had been on the receiving end of the older woman's condescension.

Now, she stood proudly as the fiancée of the eldest son from the Thorne family, facing this old woman, and y