"I knew it-bad things will happen if you get together with her. You both might be incompatible, but luckily, I got two charms from the fortune teller. You and Renee should wear them to stop the bad luck," Francine said enthusiastically. Nowadays, she started to believe in superstitions, and wanted to eliminate all the obstacles between Stefan and Renee.

�That's fine. We're good, and we always will be. I just wanted to ask you..." Stefan hesitated briefly, then asked, "What was your relationship with Renee's father?"

"What relationship?" Francine was stunned, not expecting that Stefan would ask her that.

After composing herself, she answered coolly, "What do you think? We're in-laws, of course."

"Just in-laws?"

Stefan didn't believe her-only two people who were madly in love would experience the kind of things recorded in Renee's father�s diary.

Francine and Renee's father were surely more than in-laws.

"Are you doubting me?" Francine sounded calm but dignified.

"There are a lot of things I don't understand, and I'm scared..."

"You're scared?" Francine laughed and said meaningfully, "You don't have to be. You and Renee aren't siblings. If you were, I wouldn't have tried to pair you both up."

"Does that mean that you did date Renee's father in the past?" Stefan asked directly once he realized his mother knew what he was talking about.

"Yes, I did. Is that important?" Francine heaved a long sigh as if she was recalling past memories, then said sadly, "He's no longer alive, and I'm not young anymore. Why do you have to bring it up if we can just keep it in the past?"

"But..."

"It's late, son, and I'm getting old. I need to rest. Just remember to get along well with Renee, and make sure there's no feud between her family and ours." Francine just tried to dispel Stefan's worries since it was the only thing she could do.

She could not expose anything else.

After all, the scar was finally healed and was about to be forgotten, so there was no point dwelling on it and going through that pain again.

"Okay, Mom, you'd better rest early then. Come and see Adie and Abby if you're free. We're now a happy family of four."

Knowing Francine's temper, Stefan stopped asking about it.

"I'm glad that you're happy. I can rest well tonight." Francine smiled tenderly, imagining the four of them as a family.

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