Mr. Conrad Proposes to His Ex-wife Again novel Chapter 43

The next day, after finalizing the house Stella wanted to rent, she moved into the house with the little luggage she had.

Sherry and Channing did not let her clean up the house and asked her to just sit and rest.

Stella lay on the sofa. She ordered afternoon tea for them while thinking that she was still quite happy actually.

The child would be taken care of well as he or she had such a good godmother and uncle.

She lowered her head while thinking of the child and put her hand on her belly lightly. She wasn’t sure whether she grew fatter recently, or the child had grown up. Her belly turned slightly bigger.

Sherry had to work that afternoon so she only could ask for a two-hour leave. She bought Stella a bunch of groceries, “Stella, I can’t take care of you anymore, so you must take good care of yourself. Don’t get starved.”

Channing came out of the kitchen, “I will take care of my sister.”

Stella laughed, “Don’t be like that. I am not a child. Don’t worry about me so much.”

“You’re not a child but there is a baby in your belly,” Sherry said. She came closer to her belly, “Baby, be obedient. Don’t torment your mother, or else I will beat your little ass when you are born.”

Not long after Sherry left, Stella said, “You also go back first. I can clean up the rest myself.

“No,” Channing said. “I’ll stay here with you for a few days, and I will leave after you are familiar with the surroundings.”

Stella couldn’t help but smile, “Do you really want to treat me like a child? I am your sister.”

Channing replied to her seriously, “I will only stay here for a few days so that people know that there is a man at your home and will not look at you like a girl living alone and bully you.”

Stella who was smiling froze for a moment, and she did not reject his kindness, “Then I’ll buy a single bed for you. Then later you can come and live here.”

“No need, I can sleep on the sofa.”

Channing said and went out to throw the rubbish in the house, “I will go back to get some clothes. Do you want to eat anything? I will help you to buy and bring it back.”

….

After one month.

“Phoebe, sorry to trouble you that every time I ask you to accompany me here.”

Phoebe held Rebecca's arm and laughed softly, “Rebecca, that’s alright. I am staying at home alone also, so it’s good for me to accompany you out for a walk to take a break.”

Rebecca sighed, “Horace has been unhappy with the family because of the marriage with the Conrad family. We should have known this earlier and shouldn’t have agreed to the marriage. Look at the miserable situation now. The Conrad family doesn’t like us, and Horace is not happy. Both sides are not pleased.”

“Rebecca, you misunderstood. Clarence is not unhappy with you all. He just…”

Rebecca suddenly lowered his voice when Phoebe was talking, “Phoebe, there is something I wanted to ask you a long time ago. I heard rumors that Clarence is not the biological child of Mrs. Conrad, but an illegitimate child of Mr. Dempsey. Since you always went to their house when you were small, do you know whether it is true?”

Clarence was taken back to the Conrad family when he was seven years old, and the Conrad family claimed that he was born in poor health and had been recovering abroad, plus Mr. Dempsey used some tactics, so after this, no one talked about it anymore.

Also, the gap between the time in which Clarence was taken back to the Conrad family and the time in which Justin became disabled after having an accident and could not inherit the company was only two months.

If the previous statements were only rumors, then the quarrelling scene she saw at the house of the Conrad’s family would make her suspect more.

Phoebe smiled apologetically, “I never heard of this story before. Rebecca, don’t think too much. It also makes sense that Clarence disagrees with the marriage between Horace and Annie. You also know that Annie is notoriously arrogant. What if she becomes more arrogant after she marries Horace, then it will become a problem of two families, and two companies.”

“Clarence always dislikes making himself in trouble, plus Annie is only his cousin. He is definitely not willing to go help her with these things.”

Rebecca agreed with what she said and said helplessly, “I don’t like Annie either, but my father thinks it is a good opportunity to have intermarriage with the Conrad family. My father was very angry with how Clarence acted last time, and I guess the intermarriage will not happen in the end.”