The Returned Heiress Who Never Fit In

Chapter 15 Let your cousin stay fat a while longer

The next morning, Ryan left the country for a medical summit.

When Tessa called Stellao later that day, Stella casually said, “Tell your cousin to stay fat a little longer, Ryan left the country, said he’d be gone for about a month.”

Tessa was surprised. “How do you know? Ryan called you?”

Stella replied. “Yeah, at one in the morning.”

“One in the morning? What, is he crazy?”

Just because he had a messed up sleep schedule didn’t mean he had to drag everyone else into it?

Stella chuckled. “He called about Lillian Reed.”

Tessa asked, “What about her?”

“She was admitted to the hospital last night. Turns out she has multiple illnesses.”

“Multiple? How many? What’s wrong with her?”

She had seen Lillian at the obstetrics and gynaecology department with Ethan yesterday and had assumed she was pregnant.

Turns out, she was actually sick?

Stella listed them off, “Uterine cancer, heart disease, and possibly liver cancer

sucking in a sharp

Wait, how did she end

diseases. Like Stella,

he has medical ethics, so he wouldn’t speculate. So, let’s

she and than are getting married now. What kind of family would let their heir

despised Lillian for being the illegitimate daughter of a housekeeper. Now, with her health issues, there was

illness, the Keene family elders are going to panic. They’ll want to lock you and Ethan into

bride on short notice wasn’t easy. No matter what, they’d want to keep Stella in the picture. And given that she was part of the Reed family, they’d see her as the perfect counterbalance to Lillian Tessa wasn’t wrong. The Keene family elders had already caught wind of Lillian’s hospitalization. And not only that they knew about all

Stella was on her way to the design studio when her phone rang. It was Madeline. “Stella, come

have things to do this

She genuinely had work.

this time, and she didn’t

15 Let your cousin stay

Stella stayed silent.

softened her tone. “Or should

“Don’t I’ll go.”

Finished

in person. At least that way, she could make her

after hanging up,

Stella answered, “Hello?”

“It’s me.”

Ethan’s voice came through.

immediately. But truthfully, Ethan wasn’t thrilled about calling her either. Lately, whenever he called,