Conrad answered coldly, “They’re just spoiled brats from rich families. They have nothing better to do.”“How is it fun wasting their time like that?” Fia sighed.Conrad rubbed her head gently. “To them, it’s enjoying life, not wasting time.” “I guess you’re right. It’s up to themselves to decide whether they’re happy or not.” Fia agreed and looked to the sky.Perhaps, due to these people being born into rich families, they could afford to waste away their lives for fun. It must be nice to not have gone through much hardship in life.“Hey, look! It’s Mr. Maxwell! Hey, Mr. Maxwell! How are you?” The participants of the shooting game saw Conrad and approached them.“Mr. Maxwell, you’re here for a vacation too?”“You idiot! Mr. Maxwell is known to be a workaholic. There’s no way he’s got time for vacation!”“And who may this be…” They saw Fia, who was standing next to Conrad.Conrad hugged her shoulder and pulled her toward him. “She’s my wife.”“Ah, no wonder she looked famili
”I suppose you’re right about that.” Fia was not trying to find out about Grandpa Maxwell. She was just feeling bad for Conrad. The greater of a man he was right now, the more hardship he must have been through when he was younger. She felt regret that she could not be there for him when he went through all that. She could not go through it together with him back then.“Honey, let’s try not to fight anymore from now on, okay?” Fia hugged Conrad’s arm tightly as they walked out of the ranch.Conrad stopped and put his arms around her. “Okay.”Fia nudged her head against his shoulder and said, “But I keep having bad thoughts from time to time. Maybe I’ve gone crazy.”“No, you haven’t. It’s my fault,” Conrad said to her anxiously. “No. I know quite well that there’s something wrong with me.” Fia thought about it for a while before saying, “How about this?”She raised her head and looked at Conrad. “Let’s go to a hypnotherapist.”“Why do you want to go to a hypnotherapist?” Conra
“I know!” Victor said, irritated.Fia was stunned. “You knew? But you’re alright being their slave?”“How am I their slave? Why can’t it be that I have obtained evidence that I can use against them, and control them instead?!” Victor was so angry that he could feel his chest hurt.Fia could only stare at him speechlessly and then looked at Conrad, who was looking at her from some distance away.“Then… What are you going to do now?”“What else can I do? What do you do when you’re being bitten by two mad wolves? Find a chance to poison one of them!” Victor said angrily.Fia was speechless.She suddenly didn’t know what else to say.Conrad walked over in strides and said coldly, “With your abilities, who do you think you can control? You can’t even beat Tyler and you want to control those people? You’re dreaming!”Victor cursed as his eyes were filled with rage. “You’re just like that darn old man, looking down on me! I’ll wait for the day you come crawling to beg at me, and beli
Fia looked away and turned her attention to Conrad.“Why did you push Victor away? Were you afraid that I’d hear what you’re telling him?”Conrad gulped.“What did you say to him?” Fia persevered with her question.Conrad was getting a bit of a headache. If he was right, Eileen and Victor’s relationship would be beyond ridiculous. No wonder Victor would be so terrified that he simply collapsed on the ground.Very quickly, Fia remembered something.“Jason had a sister…” Her expression was filled with fear. “Could it be possible that she’s still alive?”Conrad held the steering wheel tightly. “She fell into the ocean when she was so little, and there was no news after searching her for half a month. She can’t be alive.”“What if someone saved her?” When Fia thought about the possibility, her head began to throb. She hoped that she was wrong. “The time that Eileen lost her blood, both you and Evans donated your blood to her.”Conrad frowned deeply. “That’s just a coincidence.”F
As long as no one revealed it, Eileen would never know about it.“Lyn… Tell Eileen to work hard. I’ll be waiting for her here!”“Of course, Mrs. Maxwell. I’ll let her know!”“Alright. Bye!”After Fia figured out everything, she was going to go upstairs to look for Conrad. Then she heard a series of footsteps coming from outside the door as well as people cursing.She looked at the door curiously.“Let us go, you b*stards!”“This is ridiculous! Esme is dead because of him! Is he going to finish us off too?!”Fia approached the door and saw Tiger and the bodyguards escorting a man and a woman into the courtyard.The man and woman were none other than Esme’s parents, Hank and Beth.Both of them were cursing and they looked like a mess.“Madam, is the boss here?” Tiger asked Fia politely when he saw her.Fia nodded and said, “He’s upstairs.”Tiger then said, “I’ll go up then.”“Sure,” Fia said as she moved to let Tiger enter the mansion.When the two of them saw Fia as they
A table was set up in the courtyard. Tiger walked over with a pot of boiling hot tea.Hank and Beth were forced into their seats by the bodyguards as they exchanged glances with each other.The bodyguards stood around them with their backs straight and their hands behind their backs. They all had this vicious look on their faces.Tiger poured each of them a cup of tea. “Please, have some tea.”Hank held the teacup up with his trembling hands. Even when the tea spilled and burned the back of his hands, he didn’t dare to put down the cup.Beth couldn’t help asking, “Why did you bring us here? What are you thinking of doing?!”Tiger then said expressionlessly, “Please have some tea, Mrs. Manning.”Beth trembled in anger when she saw that the back of Hank’s hands were red from the boiling water.“Are you trying to kill us with boiling water? We’ve been staying in the countryside all this while! We never crossed Conrad!”Tiger remained silent for a second before asking, “Then who a
Hank grabbed the cup of tea from her hand and said, “I’ll drink it!”He drank the tea in one big gulp before spitting it out. Boils quickly formed in his mouth.Looking at how much pain her father was in because of the burn, Esme suddenly stood up.“I want to see Mr. Maxwell! I have something important to say to him!”Tiger lowered his eyes slightly before standing aside and said, “It better be very, very important, Miss Thomas. Otherwise, Mr. and Mrs. Manning are going to be in a bit of a pickle.”Esme glanced at Hank and Beth before disappearing into the mansion.“Who is she?” Beth looked at the figure disappearing through the mansion’s door and quickly asked Hank.Hank also looked at the figure before shaking his head with a frown. “I don’t know.”“But why… Why do I feel like she’s our Esme?” Beth whispered, worried that Conrad’s bodyguards would hear her.Hank’s eyes looked away. “Don’t say something like that. Esme’s already dead.”Beth cried, “Our Esme is such a nice gi
Conrad took a deep breath. He knew that there was something that he couldn’t hide from her anymore.Otherwise, she would become even more suspicious.“This is what’s happening, Fia.”Fia stared right into Conrad’s eyes, waiting for his explanation.“I’m also suspecting that there’s something wrong with her. I’ve already had my men investigate Miss Thomas and Esme. They really were friends when they’re overseas.”Fia then viciously said, “Just because they’re friends? And that’s normal?”Conrad was worried that he would provoke Fia, so he said gently, “Fia, I’m not trying to say you’re wrong. However, we really don’t have any evidence to show that she’s not Britney Thomas and that she’s Esme.”Fia frowned. “Check her DNA.”“I did. The body’s DNA belongs to Esme, and the DNA of the woman down there belongs to Britney.” Conrad didn’t believe it either. But that was what the information from the database stated. There was no way to fake that.There were even people from the Hellis