NovelStart
Chapter 696
Conrad frowned. “That hasn’t been proven yet.”
“After I saw her today, my instinct tells me so. Even If there’s no proof, she’s Esme Manning, not Britney
Thomas.”
Fia looked at Conrad seriously and asked, “Where were you going to take me?”
Conrad gave her a conflicted look. He had lost all the mood to do that now.
Fia had known him all her life. She knew what he was thinking. So, she said to him sarcastically, “Don’t tell me
you’ve lost the mood after I’ve told you that Britney might be my cousin.”
“Fia, why do we have to talk like this?” Regret crept in Conrad’s mind as the hands holding Fia’s shoulders. clenched
tightly.
Fia slapped his hands away. “That hurts.”
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“Sorry.” Conrad let go of her shoulders and pulled out a chair to sit.
“Britney has been fired. She will never show up in the company ever again. Can we not care about who she is or
isn’t?”
“So, it’s true that you’re hiding something?” Fia smirked. “Hiding something from who? Me?”
Conrad looked at her speechlessly. He felt that he was immensely disrespected.
No matter what he said, he would still be a liar to Fia.
“Can’t find any more excuses, can you?” Fia concluded that this talk was over since it was going nowhere. She
could not help but recall the time when Esme got back from overseas. As soon as she returned, Conrad
immediately asked for a divorce.
“Conrad, are you afraid that she might really be Esme?”
Conrad frowned again. “Why would I be afraid?”
“She impersonated another woman so that she could get away safely! If this was found out, she’d be imprisoned
for life!” Fia took in deep breath before continuing, “That and the crime of evading her sentence. This would lead to
her facing the death sentence, right?”
Conrad stared at her and asked powerlessly, “So, no matter what I say, you won’t believe me. Is that it?”
“I can’t control what my brain tells me. I must investigate and find out the truth about her. Or else…” Fia felt hurt as
she thought about it.
Conrad asked, “Or else what?”
“Or else, we can’t live our lives peacefully anymore.”
They looked each other straight in the eyes. The thought patterns between them were different, which led. to their
current squabble.
Conrad, beginning to think into a corner, said, “After you’ve met with Jason, what did he tell you?”
Fia disliked Conrad bringing up Jason at this moment. “There is nothing going on between me and him. Can you not
bring him up every time we fight?!”
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Nothing going on? After he inherited Argonauts Corp, he used your designs and stabilized his position in his
company as the CEO!” Conrad had been meaning to talk about this but he had been keeping it all to himself.
Fia was stunned as she heard this. “What are you talking about?”
“Fia, are you going to tell me that you don’t know Argonauts Corp was founded by that piece of sh*t, Garrett? Not
only that, he founded that company for that b*tch of a wife he’s got! And your dear Jason Evans left the medicine
field to inherit Argonauts Corp! That company’s brand ‘Gentle Stream’, as you. know, had always used designs from
the same designer from the start! And now, you’ve broken their tradition! Now, every employee in Argonauts Corp
is saying that Jason is using your design for the brand, mimicking what his father did for his mother! It’s like he’s
announcing that you’re going to be his wife!”
After finally spitting it all out, Conrad flipped over the table in front of him.
Fia’s body shook as she heard all this, completely surprised and confused.
She did ask Eileen to submit her designs to earn some money. She did know about Argonauts Corp. However, she
had never pieced them together.
She also knew about the love story behind the brand “Gentle Stream”. Still, all she knew was that the company’s
owner had been using his wife’s designs, so she did not care to learn about Argonauts Corp and their new products.
Looking into Conrad’s eyes, Fia tried to explain, “I… I didn’t know those designs were submitted to ‘Gentle Stream”.
Visit our social media platform to read fascinating stories every day and connect with the community!
