Stop It, She’s Remarrying (Fia and Conrad) novel Chapter 9

Echo’s grip around her thin blanket tightened. She felt pain when she thought of the hurt her daughter must have suffered yesterday. 

She didn’t realize that Conrad could be so heartless.

She knew from her sister that Esme had come back. She was worried that Conrad couldn’t give their past up, so that was why she said what she did just now. She wanted Conrad to treat Fia a little bit better.

But she never expected that he had already stabbed Fia in the back!

Cough! Cough!

“Is that all it takes?” Esme suddenly stood up and smiled. “Have any of you ever thought about how I felt when I left three years ago and it was arranged for Conrad and Fia to be married?!

“I liked you so much in the past, Aunt Echo! You were so gentle and pretty. I had hoped that my mom could be less forceful and be as gentle as you! Now that I think back… It was all so disgusting!”

Esme stressed her words a lot. When she saw that Echo’s disguise was dissolving and she couldn’t stop coughing, she was all smiles.

“Your daughter is just as despicable and shameless as you are!”

Cough! Echo coughed out blood and there was only pain in her eyes as she shook her head at Esme.

Meanwhile, Esme simply frowned at the sight of blood. She was a little shocked.

Echo extended her hand at Esme and begged, “…Leave her alone, Esme. Spare my Fia… I beg you…”

“Never!” Esme moved away from Echo so that she couldn’t touch her as she stared with venomous eyes.

“Esme… No one had a choice… I… I tried to fight back against your grandmother, but… Uncle Maxwell and my mother… They wanted…”

“Stop making excuses! Fia had fallen in love with Conrad a long time ago!”

“Fia never wanted to fight with you. Three years ago, it…”

“Enough! She never should have married Conrad! Conrad could have married anyone else, but not her!” Esme said with a face full of anger.

Echo continued coughing and begged. “Please, Esme. She had always been bullied because she didn’t have a father…” Echo tried to hold Esme’s hand.

Esme kept on stepping back as she spat out poisonous words. Echo kept on coughing and it wasn’t long until she coughed out more blood and even fell down from the hospital bed.

“Esme Manning! What are you doing?!” When Fia saw what happened when she came back with the takeaway, she immediately dropped the food from her hands and ran over to hold her mother with her eyes red.

When Echo saw her daughter, her tears rolled down uncontrollably.

“Fia… My poor girl… Why didn’t you tell me…”

She had thought that Fia was being unhappy because she found out that Esme had returned. She never would have guessed that Conrad had asked for a divorce.

Echo’s hand reached out and held Fia’s heart, saying, “Are you alright, Fia…?”

Fia cried as she wiped the blood away from Echo’s mouth and tried her best to shake her head.

“It’s okay. As long as you don’t leave me, I’ll be okay.”

Cough! Echo started coughing again as she felt pain and anxiety drowning her.

Esme simply said coldly, “This is what you two deserve!”

“Get out!” Fia glared at her. “Just get out!”

Outside the ward, two tall figures just left the doctor’s consultation office. When they heard Fia yelling, both of them ran toward the ward where Echo was in.

Esme quickly came up with a ploy in her mind and yelled as she threw herself to the floor. She even crashed her own head into the takeaway that Fia had bought.

She screamed as the piping-hot sauce flowed down from her head and she kept on crying for Conrad to save her.

Fia was shocked. She never thought that Esme would become so ruthless after three years.

The takeaway she bought was still hot. Wasn’t she afraid that she would ruin her beauty?

Echo was shocked by what happened and she coughed out another mouthful of blood.

“Mom, you’re going to be alright…”

Fia cried as she tried to help Echo up to her bed. However, Echo couldn’t use her strength, and Fia tried a few times but still couldn’t help her up. She turned and looked at Esme.

She suddenly heard Conrad console Esme gently. She wanted to tell him to help her mom back to her bed.