Chapter 1054


    Chapter 1054


    “Give him another call! No, you dial his number and give me your phone! I’ll tell him myself!” Victor


    said.


    Tyler raised an eyebrow and scowled at the man. “Don’t you have a phone too?”


    “Conrad had cklisted my number! Why would I need toe here if I could just give him a call?!”


    “I see. Well, it’s still none of my concern!” Tyler ordered the bodyguards to send Victor away before


    stepping into the vi.


    As soon as he entered Conrad’s study, he could smell a strong scent of alcohol. Covering his nose with


    his hand, Tyler said, “What the hell are you doing? Brewing wine?”


    He then looked around and noticed that the study was pitch ck. “And why didn’t you turn on the


    lights?”


    Yet, Conrad simply sat on the floor, not giving a response at all.


    Seeing this, Tyler took out his phone and turned on the torchlight to search for the room’s light switch.


    A few secondster, he found the switch and flipped it on. Then, he turned and saw the empty bottles


    scattered around Conrad on the floor.


    “Come.”


    Suddenly, Conrad called out to Tyler. “Come here and drink with me.”


    Letting out a sigh, Tyler said, “No can do, buddy. My wife and daughter are waiting for me at home.”


    “Hehe, how nice.” Conradzed back and leaned against the wall next to him. “I envy you, Tyler Lane.”


    “What’s there to envy about? You’re a genius in business, sitting atop the throne of the business world.


    It should be us that envy you!”


    Tyler sat next to him and opened a bottle. Despite his words, he still could not bear to see his friend


    drown in sorrow alone like this. So, he might as well provide him somepany.


    “Oh, envy me?” Conrad gave a bitter smile andmented, “I grew up in a broken family. My grandfather


    loved me but he was very strict in molding me to be his sessor. I’ve never truly experienced


    unconditional love when I was a child. I suppose this made mepletely clueless ways of treating


    others with love. I thought I loved someone, but the feeling I had for her was a feeling of guilt. What’s


    even funnier is that feeling of guilt was elicited from me through trickery.”


    in


    Gulping down the XO brandy in his bottle, Conrad’s eyes were filled with pain and


    “So, that girl who tricked you…. That was Ms. Manning?”


    regret.


    “Yes.” Conrad replied in a tone of regret, “I was so foolish. I epted her and became her boyfriend.


    I’ve been tainted by that wench. It’s no wonder Fia thinks I’m filthy!”


    Tyler then asked curiously, “Have you ever slept with Esme?”


    Upon hearing that, Conrad kicked Tyler. Still, the kick was not painful as he was drunk at the


    moment.


    “No, I haven’t! I’ve only ever bedded Fia!”


    “For real?” Tyler doubted it. “I mean, you’ve always been surrounded by women before and after you


    got married. You’re telling me you’ve never slept with any other woman?”


    “No! I’ve never!”


    Conrad wanted to throw up when he recalled just how many times Esme tried to trick him into sleeping


    with her.


    When did he ever realize his feelings for Fia…?


    Was it the moment Fia meekly agreed to take her cousin’s ce to marry him? Or was it when he saw


    her getting close to Jason? Or… was it when he saw the wife he’d married for three years begin to act


    differently around him…


    Envy, anger, sorrow, anxiety… The only woman who could rile him up like that was none other than Fia


    Lawson.


    At first, he was not sure what feelings he had for her. In fact, he resisted them quite fervently. at first


    too.


    On nights when he was tormented by these feelings until he could not get a good night’s sleep, Conrad


    would seek help online. Every reply online would then tell him that he had ” fallen in love”.


    “Tyler, I’m such a fool!”


    Conrad smiled at his friend bitterly before gulping down his brandy.


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    Seeing this, Tyler quickly stopped him. “Look, you should stop drinking. If you health, who’ll take care of


    Fia when shees back?”


    ruin your


    “She won’t forgive me.” Conrad said self-loathingly, “I’ve done too many things that broke her heart.


    She’s been keeping a distance from me for a long time.”


    Recalling Mary’s seething words about how heartless Conrad was, Tyler could see just how


    unforgivable Conrad was to women.