Chapter 201 The Truth About Being Forced Into Marriage
"Sure!" Fiona offered a slight smile. "I should be going now, there's a mountain of work waiting for me at the studio."
" Can I walk you out?" Lilian made a half-hearted offer.
Fiona quickly refused: "You should attend to the important patient, Miss Robbins. Don't worry about me."
With that, Fiona finally turned to Darwin, "Mr. Solomon, please rest well."
Darwin stared at her with an intensity that seemed to engulf her entirely.
Fiona felt a chill run down her spine and quickly left.
As soon as Fiona left, Lilian turned to Darwin with concern, "Darwin, what's wrong with your stomach?"
"When did you meet her?" Darwin asked.
"Chelsea?" Lilian was taken aback.
"Yes." Darwin nodded.
"It was when I was struggling for that project with RH Company. I met her at the golf course not long ago. I know what you want to ask. When I saw her face that day, I was shocked too!" Lilian clutched her chest.
"I even called you that day, intending to tell you. But then I thought about how she introduced herself as Chelsea, Janna's granddaughter. I was afraid of getting your hopes up for nothing..."
Darwin just looked at her, his expression cool and detached.
Lilian clenched her teeth.
"Of course, I also have my own selfish reasons. I know you've never gotten over Secretary Woods. Suddenly, someone who looks almost exactly like her appears, and I'm afraid you'd transfer your feelings for Secretary Woods to her and become infatuated..." Lilian's tears fell ceaselessly. "Darwin, I'm scared of losing you... I'm scared you'll never look my way again..."
Darwin's brow furrowed.
" I've looked into it, and she's definitely not Secretary Woods," Lilian continued, "I would have told you if I'd found even the slightest clue that proved she was actually Secretary Woods. Even if it hurt me, I would have. The thing is, I'm sure she isn't. That's why I..."
"How can you be so sure?" Darwin asked. His tone was chillingly cold.
"I investigated her background," Lilian said earnestly. "Not to mention her educational records, I've also been in touch with her classmates from over the years."
Darwin's expression became frighteningly grim.
"You don't look well," Lilian said, her voice filled with concern. "Let's not talk about this now, okay? I'm going to transfer you to another hospital."
Darwin didn't respond.
Right now, he felt just fine. In fact, he even felt good enough to catch up to Fiona, pull her into the car, and take her back home. To tie her up, lock her up, and make sure she'd never escape his grasp again.
But thankfully, he still had a sliver of reason left.
Chelsea, huh?
Darwin looked at his hands. He had clearly felt a faint scar on the back of her left hand.
That was from the day she got cut by glass in the sales department. The wound that had been left behind.
Darwin gently exhaled a sigh of stale breath.
Being forceful with Fiona would only backfire.
Today he feigned pity and weakness, and she couldn't bear to be cruel to him!
Darwin was soon transferred to the hospital owned by his family.
Lilian intended to stay and look after him, but she didn't get the chance to offer.
The servants who had been with Darwin's family for over twenty years hurried over.
"You should go back," Darwin said, propped up in his hospital bed, flipping through contract documents.
Lilian didn't want to leave.
"Darwin, I..."
"Lilian," Darwin looked at her, "I've said before that if it hadn't been for you, I would have drowned long ago. You are my lifesaver."
Lilian stood there, twisting her sleeve, speechless.
"In the past, I thought I was deeply infatuated with you, but then..." Darwin's gaze suddenly became more steadfast, "I fell in love with Fiona."
It was as if Lilian had been violently struck on the head with a blunt object.
This was the first time Darwin had explicitly told her that his love was for Fiona.
"Darwin, can you please not say any more?" Lilian clenched her fists so tightly that her nails dug into her flesh, yet she couldn't feel the pain.
All she felt was panic, terror, and hatred.
"I used to tiptoe around your psychological issues, but even if it's for your own good, I can't do that anymore," Darwin said firmly. "After truly loving someone, I realized that my youthful infatuation with you was just a mistaken illusion of gratitude because you saved my life."
So even after being together for almost half a year, he and Lilian had never held hands, shared a kiss, nor had he ever considered sleeping with her. Yet, afterwards, he developed an almost pathological obsession with Fiona's body.
"An illusion?" Lilian cried. "You're erasing our beautiful past with just that single word?"
Darwin looked at her. "Lilian, you will always be my savior. I owe you for your prior marriage, and for that, I will ensure you live a life of wealth. You deserve someone who is a better match for you."
"Why this sudden decisiveness?" Lilian laughed through her tears. "Is it because you met Chelsea? Aren't you tired of playing this replacement game? She's Janna's granddaughter. If she truly cared for you, why would she have called me today, asking me to come here?"
Darwin didn't wish to argue with Lilian. Was it Chelsea or Fiona after all?
"I've said all there is to say. You should go," Darwin spoke and returned his gaze to the contract.
Lilian, in tears, stood still, watching him for a long time. Seeing his resoluteness, she bit her lip and turned to leave, furious, heading to the parking lot.
As she was about to get into her car, she heard a voice she hadn't heard in a long time.
"Lilian?"
Lilian stiffened. She turned around.
Not far away stood an elderly woman and a man.
"Is it really you?" Thomas sized up Lilian. "That outfit must have cost a pretty penny. I heard that after your divorce, you went back to Darwin?"
"Lilian..." The elderly woman's eyes brimmed with tears as she reached out to Lilian.
Lilian frowned and dodged. "Don't touch me!"
"How can you speak to mom like that?" Thomas's face turned menacing. Weren't you the one who agreed to marry into European royalty when the Solomon family offered you a chance to be a princess, because you thought it looked better than being with Darwin who was comatose?"
"You lied to me, never telling me that Simon was a madman on the verge of insanity!" Lilian glared at her mother and brother, resentful, her teeth set on edge as she recalled the misstep of her past.
Simon was handsome, with brown hair and blue eyes. Lilian had looked forward to her life after marriage.
At first, things were fine, but the happiness didn't last long...
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