Who's Crying Now, Ex-Husband?

Chapter 439

Cossio hadn't even shown his face yet, and Felicity's condition had already taken

a sharp turn for the worse. Before, it was only mood swings-now, it had

escalated to memory loss.

"What did the doctor say?" Mila asked anxiously.

Conrad replied, "They've changed her medication, but all it can do is slow down the memory decline a little. There's no real cure, and..." He hesitated for a moment, his expression troubled. "For her, forgetting doesn't seem to be entirely a bad thing..."

"No!" Mila cut him off, her tone steely. "This is a clinical issue. We have no idea what might happen if her memory loss continues. We have to treat it, whatever it takes."

Of course, there was a certain appeal to her forgetting anything related to Cossio, but no one could say where this path of forgetting would end. Mila had done enough research to know that next, Felicity might start losing more than just memories—her cognition, even her sense of self, could start to fade.

It wasn't impossible that she'd forget she was even a person.

And there was something else Mila couldn't shake. Felicity had already forgotten enough that she no longer feared being abroad. That meant she had no recollection of Cossio at all.

Was that a good thing?

Yes and no.

"In any case, we need to keep trying to treat her," Mila insisted. "I'll come by as often as I can to help keep her spirits up. She..."

She was about to continue when her phone buzzed. Seeing that it was Conrad's phone, she started to leave the room, but then noticed his face suddenly go cold. Without bothering to step outside, he just picked up the call right there.

Mila took a seat and waited.

She couldn't hear the conversation, but after a few minutes, Conrad's voice turned sharp: "No. Absolutely not."

He hung up immediately.

about to return to their previous topic when Conrad suddenly said, "That was Eugene. He says

"...What?" Mila was speechless.

on? First Felicity, now Eugene-did everyone suddenly want to

situation unresolved, anyone in the Montgomery family-especially those

learned their lesson

him wanting to go abroad all of a sudden?" Mila asked, frowning. "Where does he want to

"England," Conrad answered flatly.

Mila fell silent.

"Can't you just stay here a while longer? If you're in

another word. He'd grown used to the odd, distant relationships in the Montgomery family, and Mila was no

like you being with the Montgomery family, Conrad thought, but said nothing. The rift between the

his-always finding new ways to stir

study, Mila thought about what Conrad had said

"Hey, sis?"

straight to the point. "You want to study

at the old

"Mhm."

"... Yeah, I do."

agreed, didn't we? That when you

find you. Studying abroad is the

heavier. "And

research with my mentor. I almost lost you. I just can't stand the idea

That wasn't true.

remembering Conrad's reaction and Felicity's fading memory, she swallowed her

pause, she finally said, "I support you studying abroad,

"...How much longer?"