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.”

can ask Mrs. Taylor to cook

though. So… hurry and

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

“Sure.” Conrad nodded.

left, Echo immediately stopped her smile and struggled to

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

is back, isn’t

“Yes.”

and said, “At the very beginning, my mother and your grandfather forced you two to be

Conrad kept in his pocket clenched

any

at Echo and couldn’t

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

as she continued. “But Conrad… You’re innocent… You feel mistreated… But

sister. How

away. “She’s a kind

wanting her understanding in that, there was no

he felt bad for her. He kept on thinking about what these three years of

a very reserved man. Many women wanted to

he got married to Fia, they had only invited close family

to another country to avoid their

him that he

even when he didn’t love Fia as a person, he fell in love with the taste of her

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

If they separated one day and this little girl met some other man, what could he do

that man treated her

if Esme never came back and he never saw her again, he would consider his first

of his well wouldn’t be

wouldn’t make him angry and wouldn’t cause any trouble. She was like a gentle little

didn’t expose her, but did you know this,

see, Aunt Echo.” Esme suddenly appeared with a smile and a fruit basket in her

she frowned and didn’t even want

Esme, there was no

point no matter how much love you had