Chapter 1315

That person got so angry that she laughed. “Oh, you’re acting superior now just because you’re in a play, huh? Is money all you care about?”

Stella laughed too. “I can’t believe one can be so entitled while asking for free stuff. I’m impressed. Ms.

Dunphy, does your family have problems affording a ticket? Are you always trying to watch free plays wherever you go? Is your family… bankrupt?”

Indeed, Ms. Dunphy’s family was facing some financial issues, and Stella’s words struck a nerve in Ms.

Dunphy’s heart, regardless of whether Stella said that intentionally or not. She got so angry that her face immediately turned red.

Jaylene quickly chimed in, “Stella, Ms. Dunphy is just a straightforward person. She means no harm.”

Stella smiled. “That’s why I was just joking as well. Why isn’t anyone laughing?”

Everyone kept quiet.

Molly swept her gaze across Stella and said, “A joke is only funny when the person being joked about finds it funny.

Otherwise, it’s simply impolite.”

Stella turned to the heiress of the Moore family, who got so scared of a mouse, and said, “Ms. Moore, if you’re such a polite person, why didn’t you say anything when the ladies were belittling my profession earlier?”

Molly looked at her captivating face. She could not help but think of how Trevor came inside the hall while holding her hand as her expression darkened.

“They were simply joking. How could you not tell?”

Stella used Molly’s own words to retort, “A joke is only funny when the person being joked about finds it funny. However, I didn’t find it funny at all.”

She was indirectly criticizing Molly for having double standards.

Molly looked coldly at her. “Well, I can only say that you have a small heart and can’t take a joke.”

Stella laughed. “You’re right, but at least I consider myself much braver than you, Ms. Moore. I can never imagine myself being so scared of a mouse that I would cry.”

Molly’s expression turned ugly. Obviously, she remembered how embarrassed she got at Duncan’s wedding because Marshall’s girlfriend pranked her.

She got so scared of the mouse that she threw it on the bride, causing her to fall and almost have a miscarriage. The Lowe family came after her, and her grandfather openly punished her by spanking her palm with a ruler in front of everyone. The shame she felt at that moment still lingered in her memory.

Now that Stella brought it up again, her embarrassment returned. However, she could not figure out how Stella knew about it.

‘She wasn’t there that day, right?’ Molly thought to herself.

Molly stared at Stella. Suddenly, she felt like the mocking gaze she saw in Stella’s eyes oddly resembled the bitch who had made a fool out of her that day!

She came up with a bold assumption after thinking about the heavy makeup on that woman’s face.

Then, she gritted her teeth and asked, “You’re Celeste Thompson, aren’t you?”

Stella swept her gaze across her. “I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Molly became more convinced that her assumption was right.

She felt like choking Stella to death right there when she thought about how embarrassed Stella made her look and even got punished by her grandfather.

Molly sneered, “Stella Jewell, you’re pretty shameless.

You’re neither a part of the Kane family nor the Jewell family anymore. Who do you think you are to be attending this party today?”

Stella directed the question to Jaylene, who looked embarrassed after trying to break up the argument several times. “That’s something you should be asking Ms. Saun. After all, she was the one who asked Trevor to personally invite me here. Otherwise, I really wouldn’t want to come.”

Jaylene paused. She was not expecting Stella to say that at all.

At that moment, Molly’s expression turned even more unpleasant. She looked at Jaylene somewhat resentfully.

‘Jaylene knows very well that I’m interested in Trevor. Why would she still ask him to personally invite Stella here?’ Molly wondered to herself.

Obviously, Jaylene noticed Molly’s resentful gaze too, but she could not tell Molly the exact reason why she did that.

She only invited Stella because Stella was going to return to the Saun family in the future, and that left her no choice but to invite her.