Stop It She's Remarrying by Stellar Strands

Chapter 872

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

you. Have

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!”

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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. Thus, she unconsciously refused to mention her name.

the matters involving her.” Conrad softened his voice and held her shoulders tightly. “Trust me. Okay?”

me how much time you intend to spend to solve this. Things have gotten gradually complicated over time and the lies that you’ve been telling me just keep piling up. It’s not that I don’t want to trust you but things keep happening one after

now, their enemies were not just Esme and Peter. There was a mastermind behind it

again tearfully, “Can you at

I can. But, Fia, you mustn’t get involved. Like today, you shouldn’t have conspired with Sally to let Peter go. Can you promise me not

“Sure.

long as this mess was resolved quickly and he did not leave her in the dark, she would accept how things

see.

“What’d you like to eat? I’ll ask

heading back to the

door, not giving him

made up his mind. He would resolve this matter even if he had

was woken up by her

Fia picked up her phone to check who it was. When she saw that it was from Sally, she

Conrad do?!”

was not in the room. She had gone to bed quite early last night so

“What’s wrong, Sally?”

“My brother was left on our home’s doorstep this morning. He’s badly wounded! Not only that, he refuses to go to the hospital for treatment. He’s locked himself