Mr. Conrad Proposes to His Ex-wife Again novel Chapter 526

Just as Clarence reached the garden, he heard someone calling out to him from his rear, “Clare.”

He turned around and saw Justin, who was wheelchair-bound, sitting not too far from him quietly.

Clarence walked towards him and asked softly, “You heard everything just now?”

Justin nodded in response before adding, “I did. You’re not at fault here. I would’ve done the same if I were you.”

Clarence replied, “You could’ve chosen to steer clear of this mess.”

Justin gave out a helpless smile, “All I can say is that it can’t be helped.”

He belonged to the Conrad family, after all, his mother had done horrible things to Stella, he could not just look away and pretend that nothing happened.

Since he knew that it had gotten out of control, the least he could do was delay the inevitable.

Clarence sat on a bench, looked at the sun and said, “If you could be asked, I’ll find you a place that’s more suitable for living after everything is concluded.”

“What about my mother?”

Clarence replied in a deeper tone, “She had done horrible things, she must pay for them.”

Justin sighed and said, “Clare, I know that after what she’s done, she’s irredeemable. I am also terribly sorry for what happened to you and Stella. But what can I do? She’s my mother after all, everything she’s done is for my good. I can constantly feel her desperation and pain in the past twenty or so years, but look at me, I can’t even be a good son for her.”

Clarence shifted his gaze and said, “I won’t do anything to her, all I want is just her to get the punishment that she deserves.”

“If possible, I hope that I can at least lighten her punishment myself.”

Clarence did not say anything in response to that.

Justin thought to himself for some time, before saying, “Clare, just do whatever you want, don’t worry about me, I’ll be alright. If you really succeed in taking them down, I’ll be free at the very least.”

He finished his last sentence in a relieved tone.

It was as if he had been waiting to say that for a very long time.

Clarence looked towards him as his eyebrows furrowed.

Twenty years ago, when he was just brought back to the Conrad family, Dempsey and Joanna had a fierce argument. Joanna acted as if she had nuclear bombs for breakfast that day, spitting out vulgar words including but not limited to “bastard”, “disgusting”, and “lowly” left right and centre.

Dempsey’s words had a willy-nilly tone to them, since if it was not for that accident, and the fact that someone must be able to inherit the Conrad family’s assets, or else he would not had batted an eye even if that illegitimate child died on the streets.

Clarence stood at the doorway, looking at his parents fighting each other.

It was Justin who went towards him in his wheelchair, held his hand, and said in a warm tone, “You name is Clarence, right? My name is Justin, and I am your elder brother.”

Clarence turned and looked at him, his young face still showing hostility towards him.

Back then, Justin had been discharged from the hospital recently, he was still not used to moving around in a wheelchair, and for that he constantly smashed his face onto the floor.

With his face full of bruises and wounds, he smiled at Clarence, “Come on now, don’t just stand there. I’ll bring you to your room.”

Since then, every time Joanna picked at Clarence, Justin had always shielded him from her. When Joanna instructed the maids not to give Clarence food, Justin had sneakily gave him supper at night. When Clarence was old enough to leave for further studies, Justin was afraid that the pitiful amount of allowance was insufficient for Clarence to survive off of, so he hid a bank card in his bag.

When Clarence started managing the Conrad Group and revealed his outstanding talent, only then did Joanna stop picking on him.

In the whole family, only Justin treated him as a human, a family member, a younger brother.

Sadly, his mother was Joanna.

Justin could not find a balance between both sides of the coin as he struggled to find relief.

The same applied to Clarence.

After some time, Justin said out of the blue, “Is Stella alright? I figure that she must’ve been quite terrified at what happened that night.”

“She’s alright, she isn’t that big of a scaredy-cat.”

Justin smiled, “I see that she’s been looking better lately, you must’ve been treating her well, then. You should’ve done this earlier.”

Clarence lifted his brows and said, “I’ve already told you, I love her.”

“In this kind of situations, usually the bystanders can see the whole thing more clearly than the ones in it.”