Reaching half an hour later, Fia had driven one of Conrad’s cars and parked it at the parking lot before going over to the bar.Even though it was in the middle of summer, the wind was still a bit chilly.She wore something with long sleeves that didn’t show her neck and ankles. She had her hair down, and she was pretty enough with just her natural beauty.The moment she got out of her car she had already attracted the attention of the opposite gender.A beauty with a luxurious car, especially a woman who was beautiful even without any makeup, would tempt any man.Three men came out of the bar, their hands around each other. They were unable to walk in a straight line because they drank too much.Fia was walking toward their direction when she took a step back to make way for them. However, a man caught her wrist.“What are you doing?!” She said in shock as she tried to pull her hand out. “Let me go!”“Wow! This girl is quite feisty!”“Let go!”“Come have fun with me. I’ll tr
“I’m going to say this only once! If you don’t get away from him, I’m not going to show you any mercy!”“Ha! You’re lying!”“It’s just a broken bottle, do you think you…” The woman to Fia’s right couldn’t even finish her sentence when she felt a sharp pain in her neck.The jagged edges of the broken bottle were already placed by her neck.“What… What are you doing?!” That woman was so scared that her face turned pale.Fia looked at her like a mad person and said, “What do you think I want to do?”She pressed the bottle at the woman’s neck, and the other women were so scared that they quickly walked away.All of them looked at her nervously.“Don’t be rash…”“It’s just a man… We won’t touch him, alright…”“That’s right… Put the bottle in your hand…”“Don’t do anything rash, okay…?”The woman that was being kept as a hostage began crying.Fia frowned. “What are you crying about? I haven’t stabbed you yet.”“It still hurts…” That woman mumbled. She didn’t even dare to breath
“Feeling confused? Why didn’t you just die from all the drinking?!” Fia said in a sneer.“How could I die from that?” Conrad was feeling somewhat sad as he tried to get up from the bar, but he began to sway as he lost his footing.Fia quickly went over and supported him, saying, “Why don’t you look at yourself right now?”As their eyes met, a glint of light appeared in Conrad’s eyes.He wanted to ask her not to divorce using his drunkenness as an excuse. “Fia, can we not…”“Can you please not talk?!” Fia said as she held his hand, and then held his wrist. There were too many people in the bar, and it was quite noisy too.She instantly felt agitated like water being boiled in a kettle on an open fire.She was getting a headache just looking at him like that!She wanted to just kill him on the spot after smelling all the perfume on him.“Come home with me right now!”When Conrad heard the words “come home,” his eyes brightened up.He grabbed her and said, “Sure, Fia.”“Stand
That darn Victor. He better not give him the chance or he would return the favor ten times worse!Once they were back in the mansion, Fia slammed the door loudly and woke Mrs. Taylor up, who was asleep on the first floor.When Mrs. Taylor came out, she saw Conrad thrown like a ragdoll to the ground by Fia and she quickly greeted them.“Ah! What’s going on? Why would you drink so much?!”“Mrs. Taylor, please help me up.” Conrad smiled helplessly as he looked at Fia walking up the stairs angrily. He realized that he made a great mistake.Ever since he married her, no matter how drunk he was, he would never ask her to pick him up.However, not only did he have her pick him up today, she even saw him being harassed by a group of women.“Why did you do something like that, Master Conrad? You finally got rid of all the obstacles and the madam could have some hope, why would you make him that angry with your drinking? She still hasn’t fully recovered yet!”“It’s my fault,” He said. If
When their eyes met, Conrad could see the endurance in Fia’s eyes.He suddenly remembered the day when he talked to her about the divorce after picking up Esme from the airport.Everything that was happening now was a reversal of what happened then. Now, she was the one that couldn’t wait for the divorce.Was how he felt right now the feeling she had back then?‘No,’ he thought to himself and rejected the idea.When he asked for a divorce, she accepted it without a struggle. She even gave him her box of accessories and laid out what was to be done with them.She had even told him to renovate the master bedroom to not leave any trace of her so that Esme wouldn’t be unhappy.How was she able to be that calm?“Fia, can’t we wait until you recover?”Fia smiled bitterly. “Don’t you feel that it’s very ironic? Just how am I supposed to recover from staying here?”Conrad frowned.“I don’t want to stay here for my recovery. Even if you don’t feel anything, I do.” She said whatever i
“You cannot smile at men other than me!” Conrad said in a domineering tone. However, he himself was stunned when the words came out.“Why can’t I smile at other men? Why must I only smile at you alone?” Fia asked with a frown. She couldn’t understand him anymore.Conrad’s heart suddenly skipped a beat as he pulled Fia into his arms and kissed her.What he did was so sudden that she let go of her luggage.They were husband and wife. While they had bonded in flesh, Fia remembered that they had never kissed like this.And now, he held her waist in one arm and raised her chin with the other, as if he was tasting the sweetness of the fruit.“Fia… I think I love you now,” Conrad whispered into her ears after he kissed her.Fia felt her heart beating like crazy and she trembled.She caught his clothing tightly as she forced herself to calm down, but her voice slightly trembled. “Do you know what love is?”“I do.” He caressed her with his arms and pulled her into his embrace.“I don’
“Sir?”The word cut open a wound in Conrad’s heart.“We’re husband and wife. Why must you address me like that?”“It’s an honorific,” Fia said with a smile. She then hurled a punch at his chest and walked out of his arms.Conrad looked at her. While she couldn’t smile wholeheartedly, she looked radiant.He really liked the way she smiled.“Alright then, Fia. Let’s not talk about the divorce before your recovery, alright?”Fia looked at him as she narrowed her eyes. He once again asked for the divorce to be canceled sincerely.He could already say that he loved her, and the sentiment was very genuine.There was no need to fake it in the first place.“I don’t need forty-two days. Thirty days are enough. Deducting the ten days we spent in the hospital… Twenty days.” With that, she sat down in front of the dressing table and grabbed a pen and paper.Seeing that Conrad was still standing there, she said, “I can agree to temporarily halting the divorce, but you’re not allowed to i
The person on the other side was silent for a bit. “I’m sorry, child.”Suddenly, Fia remembered the person that she had met in front of the station earlier. Director Finn Parker.She realized they sounded the same.Instantly, she became nervous. “Why are you apologizing?”“I could have been transferred earlier, but I was caught up with something.” Finn didn’t hide what happened and said, “If I had arrived when you were being accused, you wouldn’t have to suffer like that.”He had investigated Fia’s background in the past two days, and he felt bad for her.He thought that the man he saw driving away with her the other day, Jason Evans, was her boyfriend. He didn’t expect that Conrad Maxwell, the man with such a bad temper, would be her husband.And that Esme was Conrad’s first love. The reason that Fia had to suffer so much was because he couldn’t cut his first love out of his life.But it was not the time to say that.“Child, do you want a divorce?”Fia was stunned. While she