Mr. Conrad Proposes To His Ex-wife Again

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.

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

the fact that someone must be able to inherit the Conrad family’s assets, or else he would not had

doorway, looking at his parents

hand, and said in a warm tone, “You name is Clarence, right? My name is

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

hospital recently, he was still not used to moving around in a wheelchair, and for that he

full of bruises and wounds, he smiled at Clarence, “Come on now, don’t just stand there. I’ll bring

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

and revealed his outstanding talent, only then did Joanna stop picking on

whole family, only Justin treated him as a human, a family member, a younger

his mother

sides of the coin as he struggled to find

same applied

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

alright, she isn’t that big of a

you must’ve been treating her well,

his brows and said, “I’ve already

kind of situations, usually the bystanders can see the whole thing

replied, “It’s true, people in the thick of it often find it hard to get out of it. But there are millions of ways to solve problems, so we don’t necessarily had

Justin’s smiled stiffened, “Clare…”

not a relief, it’s merely avoiding the

not saying a

and said, “I’m

nodded in

his senseless knees

death is not a

an excuse that weak and useless

…

on miscellaneous things around the workshop. When she had

quite early, there was still much

her surprise,

That was weird.

family in the morning, and there was no way that he was going to stay there