The Madman My Fiancé Sent
The lover even expressed mild regret that Conrad, the ‘annoying baggage’, had survived.
Charlie’s mother, though shocked, did not confront her lover directly.
She even helped manage the aftermath, only lightly forbidding him from harming Conrad further.
Conrad knew that the cruel man would show no mercy and that his mother could not truly protect him.
After deliberately enduring a three-day fever soaked in cold baths, the former top student of the Boyds became a seemingly mad little boy, scattering food with every meal.
For fifteen years, he feigned madness.
He understood all too well: with only the fragmented conversations he overheard as a child, without concrete evidence, he could never e