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

that many?! Wait, how did

without a medical background had a rather simplistic understanding of diseases. Like Stella, Tessa found the idea

“No idea. Ryan said he has medical ethics,

are getting married now. What kind of

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

going to panic. They’ll want to

that she was part of the Reed family, they’d see her as the perfect counterbalance

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

have things to do this afternoon. I won’t be able

She genuinely had work.

and she didn’t trust the

Let your cousin stay

Stella stayed silent.

“Or

“Don’t I’ll go.”

Finished

talk, Stella figured it was better to do it in person. At least that way, she

hanging up, an unfamiliar

Stella answered, “Hello?”

“It’s me.”

Ethan’s voice came through.

to hang up immediately. But truthfully, Ethan wasn’t thrilled about calling her either. Lately, whenever

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