{"id":3417,"date":"2026-09-28T11:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/he-never-noticed-me-until-i-loved-someone-else-129\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:27:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:27:40","slug":"he-never-noticed-me-until-i-loved-someone-else-129","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/chapter\/he-never-noticed-me-until-i-loved-someone-else-129\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 129"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter 129<br \/>\nHe Never Noticed Me Until I Loved Someone Else novel Chapter 129<\/p>\n<p>Stella&#8217;s fingers froze over the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>A second later, Cassidy sent a follow-up text: [I only heard it through the grapevine, so it might just be a baseless rumor.]<\/p>\n<p>Stella immediately thought back to the previous night when Jarrod had answered Chloe&#8217;s call. She had definitely been crying, and Jarrod had rushed out of the house in an absolute panic.<\/p>\n<p>Was it because Chloe had just found out she was pregnant?<\/p>\n<p>If that was true, how could he look Stella in the eye, coldly claim that Chloe wouldn&#8217;t be an issue, and ask her to reconsider the divorce?<\/p>\n<p>Instinctively, Stella opened her chat history with Jarrod. The last message was from him, sent the previous night: [Are you asleep?]<\/p>\n<p>Since she hadn&#8217;t seen it until this morning, she hadn&#8217;t bothered replying.<\/p>\n<p>She typed, &#8220;Sorry, I fell asleep last night and I&#8217;ve been busy all morning. I heard that Director Huxley&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After typing and deleting the sentence three times, nothing felt right. Ultimately, she erased the text box completely and locked her phone.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever. There was no point in asking.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Jarrod had only suggested pausing the divorce because she was a sensible, low-maintenance placeholder wife.<\/p>\n<p>Demanding answers would only make her look pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon dragged by.<\/p>\n<p>When it was finally time to clock out, Cassidy linked arms with Stella, and they chatted and laughed their way to the elevator bay.<\/p>\n<p>The moment they arrived, they ran straight into Chloe&#8217;s crony, Fiona, whispering conspiratorially with a few other colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>The second Fiona spotted Stella, a look of blatant disgust washed over her face. She physically dragged the colleagues next to her out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>She acted as if Stella were carrying the plague and they were at risk of infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-3417","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/chapter"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kampoengnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}