“I’m telling you to find someone to marry, but that person won’t be me.”“But we’re already engaged. The entire Gryphon knows about it…”“A marriage can be broken and a divorce can be undone. The relationship between a man and a woman can be very complex and doesn’t follow any rules!” Silas said. He got annoyed just looking at the three of them. “Mr. Maxwell had helped the Manning Corporation and Ms. Manning plenty of times because of their past relationship. Please don’t force things!”“Shut up, Silas! This is between me and Conrad! There’s no place for you here!” Esme said to Silas angrily.Conrad took in a deep breath. “I don’t want to reveal who you are. It’ll make things very distasteful.”He took out his phone and said, “What Silas is saying is what I wanted to say as well. Take a look at this, Esme. The phone then played a video as he put it on the coffee table. The Mannings could see it clearly. In the video, Esme was screaming at Fia. Cursing at her and for her mother
“Are you trying to lie to me, Conrad? Lie to me despite our long relationship for Fia? You want to force me to admit to something I never did?”Esme’s tears continued to flow as she sobbed pitifully.Conrad simply stared at her as the discomfort within him became stronger.Even Silas felt disgusted and couldn’t help but say, “What are you trying to say, Ms. Manning? Didn’t Mr. Maxwell treat you well enough? If you didn’t fake all those scenes whenever you fought with the madam and we discovered it, would we even suspect you?!”“I didn’t!” Esme painfully denied it. “The car accident that Fia’s involved in has nothing to do with me.”She then stood up and said, “If you don’t believe me, I’ll kill myself to prove my innocence!”She turned around and pretended to want to ram into the wall. Hank and Beth quickly stopped her.The old couple glared at Conrad angrily.Hank yelled, “Conrad, aren’t you pushing her too much?!”Beth said, “Esme came back from overseas for you and gave up
“Ah!” Lola was scratched on the face and a bloody wound immediately made its appearance.“Continue,” Conrad simply said in a terrorizing tone.Silas walked over and pulled Esme away so that she couldn’t stop Lola.“When I saw Fia that day at the hospital, I was thinking of getting her into the van. But… I don’t know why but Fia suspected me and offered me something, so I changed my mind and told my cousin to stop.”Conrad raised his hand and massaged his head.He remembered. Fia invited Lola to dinner that day.His feelings were a bit complex. In order to deal with someone else, she had used him to seduce other women.How could she be that generous? Did she not care about him? Her husband?“Ms. Manning didn’t pay anything to us afterward because she blamed us for not being able to finish the job, so after Fia had paid a deposit, I told my cousin to find a way to make her confess her schemes. But maybe because they felt that they had been toyed with by Ms. Manning, they made the
Conrad looked at her as memories from the past began to resurface.When he was younger, he provoked many people. On campus. From the community.He fought everywhere he went.While she was gentle and subservient.She would be goaded by a lot of others because of him.There was this one time after class, she was forced into an alley and was almost…“Conrad, despite our love, how can you treat me so cruelly? I… I would rather die back when I was seventeen!”When she was seventeen… That was the time when she was almost…It was after that that he wanted to better protect her. He held her in his arms and made that promise to her.That was how the two of them confirmed their relationship.But what he didn’t know was that another girl was also stopped in an alley that night and was beaten up.If it wasn’t because she was too young and too thin, it would have been even worse for her.The girl didn’t dare to go to school for half a month because of that.She refused to tell her moth
“Will do.”…A short while after Eileen left, Jason quickly led Sally into Fia’s room.When the door was opened, Conrad wanted to follow but Sally stopped him.Sally said, “Don’t come in and make a mess!”She then closed the door with a bang and it almost hit Conrad’s nose.He gritted his teeth and waited.The curtain was once again pulled and no one from the outside could see what was happening inside.The woman on the bed began to stir. Her eyelids slowly fluttered open.Her eyes seemed to have lost their light as she looked at the ceiling and the light numbly.“How are you feeling, Fia?” Jason whispered.Fia’s eyes trembled as she mechanically turned her head.When her eyes met Jason's that were filled with worries, she instinctively smiled.“Fia… You don’t know how worried Doctor Evans was for you. He hasn’t slept after your surgery!”Fia wanted to say something but realized that she had an oxygen mask on, so she simply closed her mouth.Sally held her icy hands and
Fia immediately shook her head. “No.”There was pain in her eyes.“I want to be alone.”Jason froze as he gulped.“You knew?”Fia smiled as she slowly put her hand on her tummy. There was only loneliness in that smile.How could she not know?She was given a pad in the middle of the night. She had noticed that something was flowing as soon as she woke up.It didn’t even bleed that bad when she was in danger of losing her baby.When the car flipped over, she had felt the crushing pain from her womb.“Fia…” Jason said with hesitation. “Don’t think too much. Take care of yourself. You can still have a baby.”She shook her head.“No.”A surprise became a scare, and it became a chance for others to scheme and harm her.She couldn’t retain the child in the end.Once was more than enough.When Jason saw that she was in no mood to speak, he said, “Rest well, then. I’ll buy chicken and make some soup for you. You can have some later tonight.”Fia stopped smiling and said nothin
“Then rest well and don’t get too agitated. We can talk more later.”He pulled the curtains, left the ward, and stayed guard outside.Fia opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling numbly.Conrad left without saying anything else. To her, it was proof that he didn’t know how to get it through his wife.Maybe, he didn’t even want to find an effort to get it through her.The person that he was in love with had always been Esme Manning. And what did that make her?She slowly drifted into sleep as her mind wandered.… “Why didn’t you tell me that Fia is already awake?” Eileen said with annoyance when she saw Conrad sitting on a bench in the corridor early in the morning when she returned.She blinked, and blinked again. She was shocked.“Why are you smoking in the hospital?!”Conrad glared at her coldly and extinguished the cigarette that he smoked halfway by planting it on the back of his leather shoe. He then got up and threw it into the bin.Eileen looked at him with disdain
Fia smiled coldly. All she could think of was the image on the screen that she saw on the day of her accident.A handsome man in a black suit and a woman in a tight red dress. How matching were they?And her?When she got married to him, she never received anything like that.“You’re lying. You had the entire city’s reporters over just for an engagement with her and broadcasted it to the entire city of Gryphon, and you dare say that you treat me as your wife?”Conrad knew that if he didn’t explain anything, Fia would have continued to blame him.He quickly said, “The only reason I did that was for them to retract their statements and cancel the court case!“The testimonies from those people and the record of your transfer was extremely disadvantageous for you! I had no choice but to agree to the Mannings’ demand!”Fia frowned as she began to feel confused. She didn’t know what was true anymore.She then remembered something and said coldly, “Then, do you know that Eileen had a