Stop It She's Remarrying by Stellar Strands

Chapter 8

“Fia said that you were busy in the morning. Don’t waste your time on an old woman like me. The hospital is pretty good, and the nurse is very attentive. All you need to do now is to focus on your work,” Echo said to him gently. Even if she didn’t have much strength, she still tried to maintain a smile on her face.

“I’m not that busy.”

“True. Even if he’s busy he can still delegate his work to his subordinates.” Fia pulled out her hand from Conrad’s and then walked over to Echo’s bedside and held hers instead. “Mom, there’s something that he wants to tell you.”

“What is it?” Echo asked Conrad with a smile.

He furrowed his eyebrows. He didn’t think that Fia would be so indifferent about it.

Could it be that their three years of marriage were really a mistake, just like she had said?

Because she didn’t love him, that was why she wanted to divorce him to find her one true love?

“What is it, Conrad? I’m listening,” Echo said as she looked at him softly.

“Today is our third wedding anniversary. I want to have dinner with you too,” Conrad blurted out.

Fia looked at him in shock.

“That’s fine. But I can’t leave the hospital like this, can I? Fia, can you ask Doctor Evans about it?”

“We don’t need to leave the hospital. We’ll eat here, in your ward.” She glanced at Conrad. “I wonder if you can eat anything inside a ward, Mr. Maxwell. The scent of disinfectant is quite heavy here.“

She knew very clearly that he hated the smell of hospital disinfectant. There was this one time when he was admitted to the hospital because of a high fever. When she was taking care of him and feeding him some food, he threw up because of the smell of the disinfectant.

“Of course, I can. Having dinner together as a family is a happy occasion, isn’t it? It’s appetizing no matter where I am,” Conrad said calmly.

Fia felt that he was being so pretentious. However, she couldn’t understand why he would leave Esme behind and play an act here together with her in front of her mother.

Echo nodded happily and patted Fia’s hand.

“Then order takeaway from a good restaurant nearby. Get him something that he likes.”

Taylor to cook something and then

though. So… hurry and

“Please take good care

“Sure.” Conrad nodded.

her

and then put a pillow behind her back. He asked, “Is there something you want to tell me

is back, isn’t

“Yes.”

beginning, my mother and your grandfather forced you two

hand that Conrad kept in his

have any

looked at Echo and

do, don’t you? But you never unleashed any of that hate on

as she continued. “But Conrad… You’re innocent… You feel mistreated… But so is Fia. She, too, is innocent

as your younger sister. How bad can a girl that you see as a younger

“She’s

a divorce and wanting her understanding in that, there was no anger, no blaming from her. She

for her. He kept on thinking

very reserved man. Many women wanted to get close to him

had never accepted any of their advances. Even when he got married to Fia, they had only

off to another country to avoid their marriage. That night, when he was

anger in him that he directed toward her that

as a person, he fell in love with the

her innocence that night. She had become his wife when she was just a girl

on him for a long time. If they separated one day and this little girl met some other

that man treated

if Esme never came back and he never saw her again,

his well wouldn’t be that

wouldn’t cause any

was very unhappy. I didn’t expose her, but did you know this, Conrad? I

with a smile and a fruit basket in

saw Esme, she frowned and didn’t even want to finish her sentence

Conrad was still in love with Esme, there was no need for her

no point no matter how