Mr Conrad Proposes to His Ex wife Again

Just as Clarence reached the garden, he heard someone calling out to him from his rear, “Clare.”

He turned around and saw Justin, who was wheelchair-bound, sitting not too far from him quietly.

Clarence walked towards him and asked softly, “You heard everything just now?”

Justin nodded in response before adding, “I did. You’re not at fault here. I would’ve done the same if I were you.”

Clarence replied, “You could’ve chosen to steer clear of this mess.”

Justin gave out a helpless smile, “All I can say is that it can’t be helped.”

He belonged to the Conrad family, after all, his mother had done horrible things to Stella, he could not just look away and pretend that nothing happened.

Since he knew that it had gotten out of control, the least he could do was delay the inevitable.

Clarence sat on a bench, looked at the sun and said, “If you could be asked, I’ll find you a place that’s more suitable for living after everything is concluded.”

“What about my mother?”

Clarence replied in a deeper tone, “She had done horrible things, she must pay for them.”

Justin sighed and said, “Clare, I know that after what she’s done, she’s irredeemable. I am also terribly sorry for what happened to you and Stella. But what can I do? She’s my mother after all, everything she’s done is for my good. I can constantly feel her desperation and pain in the past twenty or so years, but look at me, I can’t even be a good son for her.”

Clarence shifted his gaze and said, “I won’t do anything to her, all I want is just her to get the punishment that she deserves.”

“If possible, I hope that I can at least lighten her punishment myself.”

Clarence did not say anything in response to that.

Justin thought to himself for some time, before saying, “Clare, just do whatever you want, don’t worry about me, I’ll be alright. If you really succeed in taking them down, I’ll be free at the very least.”

He finished his last sentence in a relieved tone.

It was as if he had been waiting to say that for a very long time.

Clarence looked towards him as his eyebrows furrowed.

brought back to the Conrad family, Dempsey and Joanna had a fierce argument. Joanna acted as if she had nuclear bombs for breakfast that day, spitting out vulgar words including but not limited to “bastard”, “disgusting”,

was not for that accident, and the fact that someone must be able to inherit the Conrad family’s assets, or else he would not had

at the doorway, looking at

him in his wheelchair, held his hand, and said in a warm tone, “You name is Clarence, right? My name

his young

still not used to moving around in a wheelchair, and for that he constantly smashed his face onto the

bruises and wounds, he smiled at Clarence, “Come on now, don’t just stand there. I’ll bring you

sneakily gave him supper at night. When Clarence was old enough to leave for further studies, Justin was afraid that the pitiful amount of allowance was insufficient for Clarence to survive off of, so he hid a bank card in his

and revealed his

treated him as a human, a family member, a

mother

a balance between both sides of

same applied

the blue, “Is Stella alright? I figure that she must’ve been quite

that big of

see that she’s been looking better lately, you must’ve been treating her well, then. You should’ve done

brows and said, “I’ve already

situations, usually the bystanders can see the whole thing more clearly

“It’s true, people in the thick of it often find it hard to get out of it. But there are millions of ways to

Justin’s smiled stiffened, “Clare…”

not a relief, it’s merely avoiding

downwards, not saying

got up and said, “I’m

in response,

hands on his senseless knees for a while before he looked away at

death is

just an excuse that weak and

…

workshop. When

quite early, there was still much

but to her surprise, he did not answer

That was weird.

morning, and there was no way that he was going to