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.”

so she said, “He can ask Mrs. Taylor to cook something and then have Silas pick it up and deliver it to

though. So… hurry

“Please take good care of my mom. Don’t simply let

“Sure.” Conrad nodded.

Echo immediately stopped her smile and struggled

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

back, isn’t

“Yes.”

the very beginning, my mother and your grandfather forced you two to be together, didn’t

Conrad kept in his pocket clenched

have any hatred about

and couldn’t say a

you never unleashed any of that hate on Fia, and as her mother, I am

innocent… You feel mistreated… But so is

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

away. “She’s

understanding in that, there was no anger, no blaming from

he felt bad for her. He kept on thinking

wanted to get

accepted any of their advances. Even when he got married to Fia, they had only invited close family members

to avoid their marriage. That night, when

of anger in him that he directed toward her that night. He

as a person, he

become his wife when she was just a girl

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

man

again, he would consider his first

his well wouldn’t

any

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

time no see, Aunt Echo.” Esme suddenly appeared with a smile and a fruit basket in

she frowned and didn’t even

Conrad was still in love with Esme, there was no need for her to tell him of Fia’s love for

was no point no matter