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

did she end up with uterine

background had a rather simplistic understanding of diseases. Like Stella, Tessa found the

medical

are getting married now. What kind of family would let their heir marry a woman

being the illegitimate daughter of a housekeeper. Now, with her health issues, there was no way they would approve

because of Lillian’s illness, the Keene family elders are going to panic. They’ll want to lock you and Ethan into marriage as soon as possible, just to keep him from

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

design studio when her phone rang. It was Madeline.

but I have things to do

She genuinely had work.

and she didn’t trust the junior

your cousin stay fat a while

Stella stayed silent.

tone. “Or

“Don’t I’ll go.”

Finished

it in person. At least

long after hanging up, an unfamiliar number

Stella answered, “Hello?”

“It’s me.”

Ethan’s voice came through.

up immediately. But truthfully, Ethan wasn’t thrilled about calling