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

gasped, sucking in a

many?! Wait, how did she end up

of diseases. Like Stella, Tessa found the

idea. Ryan said he has medical ethics, so he wouldn’t speculate. So, let’s not

But let’s be real, there’s no way she and than are getting married now.

Keene family eldels had already despised Lillian for being the illegitimate daughter of a housekeeper. Now, with

family elders are going to panic. They’ll want to lock you and Ethan into marriage as soon as possible, just to keep

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

the design studio when her phone rang. It was Madeline. “Stella, come to the Keene estate for lunch. I’ll cook your

declined immediately. “Thanks, but I have things to do this afternoon. I won’t be able to

She genuinely had work.

time, and she didn’t trust the junior designers to

your cousin stay fat

Stella stayed silent.

her tone. “Or should I

“Don’t I’ll go.”

Finished

to do it in person. At

hanging up, an unfamiliar

Stella answered, “Hello?”

“It’s me.”

Ethan’s voice came through.

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