Chapter 872

Feeling her heart in pain, Fia stared at Conrad blankly and asked, “Then let me ask you. Have you ever lied to me?”

Conrad was stunned upon hearing this. He had lied to her plenty of times. The worst lie was about Thea Lawson’s project that he robbed from her.

“Fia, sometimes… a lie could be a white lie.”

“But a lie is a lie. A lie with good intentions? The so-called ‘good intention’ is just the liar’s selfish presumption!” Fia began to get agitated again, “You think you lied to me with good intentions but to me the fact you’re lying just means that you had ill intentions! The fact you hid Britney’s imposter in that apartment made me very uncomfortable!”

“…”

Conrad stared at Fia’s anguished eyes as he tried to come up with words to explain to her. It was then he realized something.

Fia had been calling that woman “Britney’s imposter” or “fake Britney”. She had been avoiding to use her real name—“Esme Manning”.

Marcus had told him. Esme was a knot that troubled Fia the most. Th