“You cursed me?” Finn was instantly enraged. “You should feel lucky that you married Fia, but you didn’t cherish her! And now, you came here to check on another woman’s body?”“I don’t have time for this!” Conrad turned around and left. His brain was full of crap, so he couldn’t speak to him at all.“Why did you come to the autopsy department, sir?” Silas walked over from the other direction. He had gotten a tan from trying to find the bodies for the past few days.Conrad asked as he headed out, “Have you checked if that body belonged to Esme?”“Yes, it’s hers. I kept an eye on the coroner.”“Did the truck really explode on its own? Not because of some other reason?”Silas looked at him weirdly. “Why are you asking that?”No matter how the car exploded, he believed that someone as vicious as Esme got what she deserved! He was cool with it!Could it be that his boss believed that someone had killed her and he wanted to avenge her?Conrad stopped and looked at Silas in disgust.
Silas looked at him in shock.“Silas Whitley.” Conrad saw the lingering pity in his eyes as he stopped. He held his shoulder firmly.“This is an extermination. We must be thorough!”Silas lowered his head and said, “Understood.”“Assist them with Esme’s funeral.” That would be the last thing he would do for the Mannings.“Of course.”… Mansion at the foot of a mountain.A woman’s wail could be heard from the living room.“Why?! Why is he treating the Mannings like this?! I’m already dead! Why can’t he spare us?!”The feminine man in a pair of wooden clogs slowly walked toward the woman sitting on the floor. The tapping sound from under his feet followed as he said, “I told you. After you betrayed him, he wouldn’t treat you like he did in the past.”The woman’s tears couldn’t stop as she shook her head and knelt before the man, and she grabbed his wide pants.“Mr. Green, I beg you… Help me, please.”The man knelt and held the woman’s chin, forcing her to raise her head.H
“What time is it now, Eileen?”“12 in the afternoon.”Fia smiled bitterly. “He didn’t come home for lunch. He must be there to see her.”“Don’t think too much, Fia.”“He must be quite sad too. He probably won’t be back today.”Fia stroked the designs on the table with her hand. “Eileen, if you have time, submit my designs for me.”Eileen took a step forward and glanced. “Didn’t you say that you wanted to save these designs for an elegant themed fashion collection in the future?”“Forget about it. I can’t see now and I can’t make any more designs. Rather than saving a few designs that would never form a collection, I prefer to offer them away.”“Alright. I’ll check which companies accept such designs.” Eileen paused before saying, “Right, do you want to ask Conrad? His company is so big, they probably accept all kinds of designs.”Fia shook her head and said, “His company’s designs all revolve around wealth and elegance. They wouldn’t promote such designs. It’s a waste of time
This was a new account that he had just created today. It was primarily used for business-related matters.Only a few high-level managers in his company knew about it.Eileen sat there and looked at Fia who was touching her own design and quickly typed.Fia’s face appeared in Jason’s mind and he replied, Eileen bit her lips and typed, “Fia, let me snap a few photos of your designs. I’ll send them to a few companies and let them have a look.”“Sure,” Fia said as she pushed the designs toward Eileen.Eileen glanced at her guiltily and quickly snapped the photos and sent them to Jason.When Jason saw the designs, he replied very quickly.
“Madam, Ms. Reid, time for lunch.”Mrs. Taylor came up and called out to them. It had been Master Maxwell who would usually tell them that it was time for lunch for the past few days, but he was away today.Eileen led Fia down the stairs and took her seat at the dinner table. Fia asked while pretending not to care, “Mrs. Taylor, did he call saying that he’ll come back for lunch?”Mrs. Taylor choked. She wanted to be honest but worried that it would hurt her.“Maybe there’s too much work in the company today and he was delayed.”“True, he must be quite busy!” Eileen agreed.“No matter how busy he is, would he miss lunch?” Fia asked coldly as she tried to find the spoon and hold it.For the past two days, she could already drink soup on her own.She believed that she would be able to eat and walk on her own before long.Only then would Eileen stop missing her when she had to leave.Mrs. Taylor walked out of the dining room and then saw Conrad who walked in quickly. She was over
“Are you angry with me, Fia?”“You’re thinking too much.”“Am I?” Conrad looked at her gray eyes and couldn’t help but feel the pain thumping in his chest.He carefully bent down and put his face next to hers.“Then I am afraid and think too much.”Fia’s heart, which seemed to be under a lot of stress, trembled. But it only trembled. The stress was still there.“I went over to the autopsy department to look at Esme’s body,” he said slowly, worried that he might agitate her.Fia couldn’t help but curl her hands into a ball.“Now that you’ve seen it, are you sad? She’s dead. There’s no more chance for you to redo it anymore.”Conrad held the woman in his arms. He hadn't hugged her properly since she woke up.This time, she didn’t push him away. He was obsessed. All he wanted was to treasure this moment.“Do you regret it? If you knew that she’d die, you wouldn’t have submitted that evidence, right?”Conrad frowned. “Am I that disgusting in your eyes?”“You have her in your h
Fia then asked, confused, “You doubted her since then? Is that why you personally sent her to prison?”“Correct.”Now faced with Conrad’s honesty, Fia didn’t know how to face him.“I know that you still don’t trust me, but I can prove myself to you in the future!”Fia’s eyes blinked. “No one knows what will happen in the future.”“Fia, her death has nothing to do with you. Don’t worry about it.”He understood her now. No matter how cold she looked, she was still that same, kind woman.Not to mention that Esme had pretended to be her big sister. Of course, she would have some good memories with her.Fia could feel the pain in her chest as if she had been exposed.Her eyes opened wide, but she couldn’t see him. All she could hear was his breathing.She then asked, “Are you sad that she died?”Conrad looked into Fia’s empty eyes. He wanted to tell her that he didn’t feel sad. To tell her that he hadn’t vented off all his fury yet.How could Fia suffer so much while she escaped
“Take a look at these, Jason.”Jason picked them up curiously, and the designs that Fia gave them appeared in his mind.While it was a different style, he could sense that there were some familiarities in them.“The designs that you gave me and the ones that I showed you are definitely from the same designers!”“Let me take a look!” Clarice grabbed the designs that Jason was holding and then looked at Garrett.“Isn’t… Isn’t these the new designs that Conrad’s company just released?”“Correct!”Garrett looked at Jason. “Do you have anything you want to explain?”“There’s nothing to explain.” Since his parents knew, Jason became even more honest.“She didn’t copy anyone else’s designs. I don’t need to explain!”“Seriously?! She’s your older brother’s wife! She’s not someone that you can think of!”“Dad, Maxwell Corporation’s theme focuses on extravagance and alternative fashion. This simple and graceful design is completely different than what they’ve been doing all this while