Esme showed Fia all the bruises under her hospital gown. “Look, Fia! This is what you made your best friend do!”“Is that right?” Fia sneered. “If I didn’t see what happened to you, I might have believed you. But now, I’m sure that you did all of this to yourself!”Esme was stunned.Fia then pursued her brutally. “Your face is so pretty… If a few men really did rape you, how could your face be completely unharmed?”The more she continued it, the more ironic she found it. Because she needed to thank Conrad for his teachings.And this made him become more than just a naïve fool.Esme’s face turned pale as she tightened her grip.“How can you be so disgusting right now?”“Disgusting, am I?” Fia let out a smile, which made her quite attractive.“Cousin… Conrad was the one that cultivated this disgusting person, you know?”“You’re shameless!” Esme roared as her face twisted from anger.Fia then said, “If you don’t want me to remind Conrad of your little trick, then please convinc
“What?!” Eileen looked at Fia in shock. “Why don’t you use this chance to show what kind of a woman she is to Conrad?”FIa laughed in a defeated tone.“From what I know about him, even if he knew what happened, he would simply suppress this. The reporters won’t be able to publish those reports.”Eileen scowled as she couldn’t argue against her point.Fia then continued, “If that’s the case, why should we waste our effort?”Eileen then looked at Fia pitifully, “What should we do, then?”Fia took a deep breath and said, “Leave this to me. All I want is to protect the child in my womb.”After Eileen took care of all the reporters, Fia went back to Esme’s ward.“Fia, I beg you. Don’t tell him what happened or he’ll be very disappointed in me.” Esme begged her with a woeful look.She kneeled on the bed and begged Fia with her hand clasped together.“For old time’s sake, alright?”“Cousin…” Fia said in a cold tone. “There’s nothing left between us anymore.”Esme was stunned. “The
“Madam, I’ve looked after him since he was a little boy. I wish for him to find happiness.”“He believes that he’ll find happiness by staying with Esme.”Fia ate only a few bites before heading upstairs.After taking a shower, she was feeling sleepy. She looked at a certain spot on the bed and felt that it was filthy somehow.She pulled the sheets away and lied down only after she changed them.“How can you still sleep?!”Fia had only just managed to fall asleep for a bit before someone pulled her up.She looked at the person next to the bed in confusion.“What now?”Conrad was so angry that he grabbed her arm even tighter.“What did you say to Esme? Why is she asking me to withdraw the suit against Victor too?!”Fia lowered her head. She didn’t have enough sleep and wasn’t feeling that well.She said in a soft tone, “Is that very strange? I told you already before going over to apologize to her. I’ll apologize and you’ll withdraw it.”“Esme is the victim! She never would
“I’m sorry.” Conrad apologized again as he let go of Fia’s hand before turning and leaving.He didn’t know what happened either. It felt like he was being possessed. He didn’t even know what happened anymore.Fia lied back in the bed as she gasped for air like a fish out of water.She wanted to cry, but she felt that crying meant humiliation and she refused to be humiliated further.She wanted to scream, to curse, but she was out of strength.She felt like she was going crazy.She once again fell into a deep sleep and only her ringtone woke her up in the evening.“Hello?”She was too tired to see who called.Wallace, who was on the other end of the call, was silent for about two seconds. “Fia? It’s me, Uncle Wallace.”Fia sat up and held her phone tightly.“What is it, uncle?”“You haven’t told your mom about your grandma, right?”“Yes, I haven’t.”“Good girl. Come to your grandma’s funeral tomorrow with Conrad.”“Alright.”Fia was worried that the Lawsons wouldn’t allo
“Well, it’s fine. He must have a lot of things to settle, being the owner of such a huge company. It’s fine as long as you’re here.”“Thank you for your understanding. Let’s go.”Fia walked into the main hall and saw the Lawsons standing on either sides of the hall, sobbing.When they saw her come in, all of them looked at her with anger.Even if she did grow up in the household, her three aunts and their children didn’t like her because of her identity.She didn’t believe that she had it tough as her uncles and grandma all loved her.However, her grandma’s death made even her three uncles resent her somewhat.The Lawson household… Was not a place she could come to anymore.She held the carnation in her hands as she walked toward the coffin. She knelt on the floor directly, ignoring the cushion.She put the carnation on the ground as she clasped her hands before the coffin respectfully and her head hung low.“Grandma, thank you for all the years of love that you gave me. I am
She let out a brilliant smile.“Save these for your own children, uncle!”She was no fool. Grandma had passed away too suddenly. Her uncles were the ones who had prepared these things for her behind their wives’ backs.She couldn’t take them.Not to mention that her grandma had already given her and her mom a lot of love. She never owed her anything.She couldn’t take anything from the Lawsons anymore!The three siblings glanced at each other and stopped forcing the things on Fia.She was right. If their wives found out, they were going to start fighting again.And then, they would hunt Fia down.They thought that as long as Fia didn’t divorce Conrad and remained the madam of the Maxwells, she wouldn’t have such a bad life.What they prepared for her wasn’t actually worth much.Wallace then said, “Fia, don’t fight with Conrad because of this.”Douglas nodded. “Your grandma is very stubborn. We can’t blame Conrad for everything that happened to your grandma.”Hector agreed
Conrad frowned and remembered how Esme had cried and tried to force him to proceed with the divorce and marry her.He refused it without even thinking twice. He was more willing to go back on his words regarding the project than to divorce Fia and marry Esme.He was still in a daze about what had happened since yesterday. In the past few days, he saw a different Fia.Cold, numb… And no longer as obedient and as gentle as she was in the past.“I owe you one regarding this project. You like designing things, right? I can send you out of the country. When you’re back, I can employ you as Maxwell Corporation’s Design Director.”Esme looked at him in disbelief.The Maxwell Corporation Design Director was not a post simply to be mastered by someone with merely a good ability and high education.They also needed in-depth working experience and mastery over all the elements of the fashion industry.“Ha…” Fia felt that this was not a kind idea at all.She looked at the man and woman
“What are you thinking about, Fia?”Eileen stood up and then had Fia sit down with her.Fia massaged her forehead and looked at all the attendants standing in a row. “Who told you about this?”“The last time you came, Mr. Maxwell and Ms. Manning were here too. You… you also threw a bracelet of hers.”The senior of the attendants carefully chose her words.In her eyes, Madam Maxwell robbed Ms. Manning of her bracelet and threw it away.They were talking about it and somehow, it reached their boss’s ears.Their boss’s special personal assistant, Mr. Whitley, even came to the shops to warn them. Saying that Mr. Maxwell wanted his wife to be treated well.That was how the entire top floor knew who she was.“That Tourmaline Bracelet was mine in the first place. I was simply throwing away something that belonged to me, not her!” Fia said in a stern voice. She was obviously very angry.Because of Esme’s return, more and more people were misunderstanding her.“Yes, yes. We said it w