"Are you sure you're okay?" asked Adrian for the umpteenth time. Leah nodded firmly, "I'm fine. Shall we?" she forced. Adrian gave up, he had promised Leah to fully support her plan. "Okay, Let's go, just walk slowly okay, I'll hold you," Adrian bent down to help Leah up.
"I'm fine Ad, I can stand on my own..." Leah mumbled with a little smile on her face. Adrian nodded his head, but still didn't want to take his hand off Leah's arm. They walked hand in hand to the hospital lobby where Adrian parked his car in the VIP parking area.Leah looked around, several men in black suits scattered around her. "Are they your people?" squeaked Leah, somewhat panicked, she thought that they were Jerome's people. Adrian shrugged "I won't let other people hurt you a second time, I brought them, just in case Jerome's people are after us. Come on in," Adrian opened the door in the passenger seat for Leah, Leah carefully got into it.Adrian was driving a car thrConvinced by the memory that suddenly appeared last night, Leah rushed over to visit Chloe at her office, of course with Adrian beside her.After a few minutes of waiting, Chloe finally appeared in the lobby. She greeted Leah stiffly, it seemed she was still annoyed that Leah didn't accept her as a friend anymore."What do you need from me?" Chloe asked bluntly.Leah put down the teacup in her hand, then looked up at Chloe flatly. "Where's Jason?" she asked sharply. Chloe's eyebrows moved slightly, a sign that she was quite surprised by Leah's question."Why are you asking me about Jason? I don't know," Chloe replied, looking away."Okay, I think your apology at the hospital was insincere, let's go Ad!" Leah took Adrian's hand, preparing to leave. Chloe looked at Leah with a doubtful face,"Wait!" called her before Leah stepped in. Leah turned her head, waiting for Chloe to say something."He's at Kings Corp," Chloe
Leah stood in front of VICAR's lobby, waiting for Adrian who was calling someone. Until that day she still couldn't remember her past working days at VICAR."Leah!" someone called her, causing Leah to turned around in surprise. She nodded politely and put a little smile, she didn't know who was the man that standing in front of her."Ah sorry I forgot you lost your memory, if it wasn't for watching the news, maybe I wouldn't have known, let's get reacquainted, I'm Danny," Danny held out his hand to shake Leah's, his face smiling kindly. Leah hesitantly shook Danny's hand, she couldn't trust everyone who claimed to be her acquaintance."I was your former subordinate, you probably don't remember! But we used to have lunch together," Danny mumbled without being asked. "Is it true?" asked Leah, not knowing how she should react. Soon he saw Danny yelled when he saw Adrian, "Oh my Gosh, Hi handsome! Long time no see!" Danny winked one eye at Adrian who nodde
"Fuck! How did you get that video!" Jason snapped angrily. Leah shrugged, "I don't know, I think Adrian can even do more than that..." she said, deliberately playing with Jason's feelings.Thanks to the sophistication of the IT person who was paid by Adrian, they finally managed to get Jason's weakness. It turned out that Jason often sleeps with his clients' wives for the odd reason, just because he wanted to. If the porn videos spread widely, then his career will be ruined, no more clients will believe him because Jason might fuck his wife. Well, maybe except for Jerome. He would still use Jason's services because Jason knew about Kings too much."I didn't keep the evidence! Do you think Jerome is stupid? He won't let me keep anything! I have to do work only with a laptop from Kings, I'm not even allowed to carry flash drives and I'm being watched all the time with a lot of surveillance cameras!" raved Jason desperately, he was scared to death if the video
The plane landed in Washington DC safely. Leah, Adrian, and Ming walked quickly to the car that Charlie had sent to pick them up. The Bodyguards followed with another car behind them.Adrian had booked a hotel not far from the Picasso Art Gallery."Ming I will call you when everything is ready," said Adrian before Ming entered her room. Ming winked, "No worries!""Come on in, we need to rest before we go into action tomorrow," Adrian whispered in Leah's ear. By rest, he meant making love until they were tired and sleepy. Leah laughed, then nodded and pushed Adrian into the hotel room."Are you always aroused whenever you see me?" Leah teased, she just dropped her handbag onto the floor, then wrapped her arms around Adrian's neck. Adrian smiled broadly, "You're the only woman in this world who makes me always want to make love..." Adrian whispered, in Leah's ear."Is it true?" said Leah, groaning because Adrian had moved to her breas
"I managed to take over the CCTV and will identify the people behind the delivery soon, and regarding the room, we are talking about, I believe the room with the red door that I mentioned is the room we are looking for. And you know what? the gallery where we will have dinner together tomorrow night has a connecting door that linked directly to the room with the red door," Ming chirped as she was busy eating the sushi in her mouth. At that time, Adrian, Leah, Mia, and Ming were eating together in Adrian's suite."Okay, we will stick to our previous plan, if the delivery will indeed lead us to certain evidence, consider it as a bonus. Mia, I'm sorry but Mom won't allow me to take you tomorrow, you stay at the hotel, we will contact you if we need help," said Adrian, Mia's face looked disappointed.The rest of the evening they spent discussing their big plans for tomorrow. Leah's heart was pounding with excitement. If they failed this time, Leah didn't
"So what exactly is your plan?" asked Adrian as they were all having breakfast together. Leah swallowed her pancake, then gulped her cold orange juice, after which she looked at Adrian, Mia, and Ming in turn. "We need to do a little trapping..." Leah said carefully.Ming tilted her head, "Okay, explain in more detail," she said casually, for some reason she enjoyed everything they were doing lately, it got her adrenaline going.Leah cleared her throat, then she explained everything in her head. Adrian, Mia, and Ming nodded, agreeing with her plan."Leah, I'm glad to finally see you as passionate as before!" Mia smiled at Leah sincerely. Leah laughed, "Yeah, at first all of these problems took all my confidence, seeing the people closest to me get hurt made me feel like I didn't deserve anything to fight for my freedom. But now I've changed my point of view, instead, I have to do this to punish Jerome and his allies to pay what they have done to everyon
"Nothing, I'm just saying," Luke mumbled and walked towards the toilet leaving Leah staring at his back with a bad feeling. Soon Luke came back again, then said, "Your life was ruined once because of a billionaire, why would you want to sacrifice your happiness once again by dealing with people from the same background..." Luke half-whispered.Leah shook her head, not understanding Luke's strange behavior. "Adrian is different from Jerome, don't compare the two of them! Seriously, What's wrong with you!" Leah turned around leaving Luke to stand behind her unresponsive.After managing her feelings that were a little messy because of Luke's words, Leah returned to the dining table where Adrian's family was talking while occasionally bursting out laughing."Hey, you're back!" said Adrian while wrapping his arms around Leah's waist. Leah nodded and smiled broadly, looking at Adrian's face, which was red from the alcohol he had drunk.Luke's wo
Leah bit her lip, choosing to ignore Luke's message. After turning off his cell phone, he walked over to Mia who was sitting on the edge of the pool, hugging her knees."Hi," said Leah then sat down next to Mia. Mia turned her head, her face looked very puffy. Suddenly guilt hit Leah, "Are you feeling better?" asked her, putting her arm around Mia's shoulder.Mia shook her head, "It feels like a big rock stuck in my chest until I couldn't breathe, I've never felt this way just because of a man..." Mia sobbed, she covered her face with her hands, tears dripping from between her fingers.Leah was silent, she didn't know what to say. After reading Luke's message to her earlier, she couldn't just close her eyes and pretended that Luke liked Mia too."Do you think Luke doesn't like me?" Mia asked while sobbing occasionally."I don't know, I'm not good at reading people's minds, but I think so, which man doesn't like you, I mean you
Right before her eyes, Suzy, Luke, Donna, Mandy, Henry, Esmee, Vivian, Charlie, Mia, Granny, Kate, and even all the people from the publishing company came to surprised her."Oh my God, you guys are the best!" whispered Leah, teary."Owwww, come here!" Vivian moved forward to hug her. She turned her gaze to Adrian who grinned widely to see her wife cried happily.*****"So he won?!" yelled Mia when Leah told her the story about that rock, paper, scissors game that she and Adrian played at the Dr. Philips clinic. Leah nodded, "Yeah, so, I have to wait till the delivery to know the gender," said Leah lightly. Mia chuckled.Suddenly their gaze bumped into Suzy and Luke who were looked very romantic, Leah felt bad for Mia, but she knew Luke would never like Mia. Luke hated rich people."How do you feel about that guy right there?" asked Leah, moved her chin to where Luke was standing. Mia snorted, "At first I'm in pain, but now
Loud applause greeted Leah as she walked into the studio. She sat across the host in her beautiful black dress. She felt a little bit nervous, but she could handle the situation.The host lifted her hand, made the audience silent. "Leah Parker, first, I would like to thank you personally because you dare to write your story to the world through your novel, I read it by the way, and it's just very mind-blowing!" said the host which was a beautiful middle-aged woman named Katherine. Leah smiled, she put her hand on her chest and mumbled, "Thank you, Kate," in a whisper."So as we know this book is a novel which written base on a true story of the author herself, my question is, how do you manage to stay alive after all those horrible things your ex-husband did to you? I mean, even before this novel launched everyone in the U.S. might already hear the news about your experience, we know how miserable your life was..." asked the host, Leah could hear empa
"Leah, I'll explain everything..."Suddenly, Adrian took Leah's wrist and bring her to their bedroom. As the door shut, the sounds of people talking and laughing were gone. Leah took her hand off Adrian and moved quickly to the giant glass that the curtain was wide open. She could see the hustle and bustle of Manhattan below her."What do you want to know?" asked Adrian, somehow Leah could hear the fatigue in his tone that made her offended. She turned her body, "You make it sounds like I'm the one who brought the problem here!"Adrian rubbed his face, he exhaled violently, "Leah, come on! Please, don't make it difficult for me, the only reason I hid that fact was that I don't want you to be reacting this way! You'll be too sensitive and jealous without a reason," he said. Leah snorted, "So now it's officially my fault? Perfect! I know exactly that the past is past! But I demanded your honesty! Talking about jealousy, even you acted that way every time you saw
"I'm sure it's all just a misunderstanding, Leah you're currently married, you have to face all problems more wisely," said Suzy softly. Leah sighed, "Yeah you're right, I don't know lately I've been very sensitive, maybe because of my pregnancy hormones," said Leah, staring at her cellphone which was filled with calls from Adrian."You have to answer Adrian's call, he must be really worried about you," Suzy moved her chin towards Leah's cellphone which was still vibrating. Leah bit her lip, Suzy was right she is a wife, she should be more mature."I'll take this," Leah got up from the sofa, walking towards the tiny balcony that Suzy had beautifully arranged."Leah? Where are you? Are you okay, listen! I'm sorry, okay? I'll explain everything! Tell me where you are?"Hearing Adrian's worried voice made Leah burst into tears. For almost two minutes she just kept crying without saying anything. On the other side, Adrian apologized many times,
"Leah, what are you doing here?" asked Adrian coldly. Leah shrugged, "Just having lunch and accidentally bumped into Luke," Leah replied casually. She picked up the meat with chopsticks and ate it casually. As if she didn't care about Adrian and the oriental woman there."Didn't you say you weren't going anywhere this morning?" asked Adrian, still frowning in annoyance to see Leah with Luke.Leah shrugged,"Maybe Donna forgot to tell you, but earlier I came to your office to bring lunch, but it seems that you are busy with this woman, so I decided to eat here alone because the baby in my stomach is hungry," Leah babbled without looking at Adrian.Adrian looks surprised."You were at the office? Why didn't you tell me? Donna was not at her desk, I think she was having lunch so she forgot to tell me, Ummm Leah this is Lily, umm my client," Adrian introduced Leah to the oriental woman who was next to Leah.Leah looked at the orienta
Leah looked at Donna suspiciously,"Is there something you're hiding from me?" asked Leah narrowing her eyes. Donna shook her head, "What am I going to hide from you?" Donna said with a small laugh. Leah shrugged, "I don't know, maybe Adrian is having an affair with another woman or something," she mumbled as she tiptoed, trying to peek into Adrian's study, but all she could see was just a handbag.Donna laughed, "Adrian? Cheating on you? That's as impossible as a human mission to Mars!" Donna joked, but she quickly grabbed Leah's hand, "Let's go to the Coffee shop, this meeting really can't be interrupted," she said quickly. Leah still occasionally glanced around the room, wondering."So who is he meeting with?" Leah asked when she and Donna were in the elevator. Donna had a nervous look on her face. "Umm with an important client," Donna answered, which didn't help at all to allay Leah's suspicions.Leah suddenly remembered the woman's To
Leah entered the Penthouse, she tried to think of something else, but her mind kept going back to Adrian and the oriental woman at the Chinese restaurant earlier. Should she just call Adrian so she doesn't feel suspicious?Finally, Leah dialed Adrian's number, which had just been picked up after the fourth ring."Yes baby?" said Adrian straightforwardly."What time are you coming home?" Leah asked carefully."Probably in two hours, what's wrong honey?" he asked hastily. Leah bit her lip, looking for an excuse."Leah?""Umm I'm in the mood for Chinese food, I didn't have time to buy it when I went out," Leah finally found an excuse to provoke Adrian, to tell the truth."Okay! I'll buy it for you, I'll hang up the phone, okay, my client has come, love you!" chirped Adrian, not long after the call ended.Leah closed her eyes, dispelling the suspicion that had filled her head. Surely Adrian will tell her later, she didn't need to b
"So who's that Lily from Shanghai?" teased Leah after Adrian shut her phone. Adrian laughed, "She was just a friend I met a long time ago, she said she read the news about my marriage, and congratulate me that's all," said Adrian casually. "Ohh I see," replied her tried not to sound jealous."So, we're going to stay in the room at 65 floors until our house is ready to use, you don't mind, right?" asked Adrian, putting back his suits on his body. Leah shrugged, "I can sleep anywhere as long as it's not a pigsty," joked Leah made Adrian chuckled.*****They walked hand in hand inside the store, arguing about which sofa was better. They finished shopping after 5 hours and repeated that same activity in the whole week. Adrian intentionally accompanied Leah until their house was ready. He didn't want Leah to be too tired handling their new house.Today they had an appointment to meet Dr. Phillips, the obstetrician from Granny's
"Hi, Baby, bonjour! How do you feel?" Adrian touched Leah's cheek softly. Leah opened her eyes, she smiled, "I'm feeling better..." she answered turned her face to Adrian who sighed a sigh of relief. Last night was pretty tense and Adrian was so worried about it. But her mom told her that Leah had that pregnancy hormones thing which involved in all her moods, so Vivian guessed that Leah would get better in the morning and her guessing was right."Breakfast!" Adrian pulled the trolley closer to the bed. Leah frowned, "You don't have to do this, I can walk myself to the dining room," she said. Adrian grinned, "I wanted to serve you like this, at least once every week, you don't mind right?" teased Adrian touching Leah's chin. "Wow, I'm the luckiest woman on the planet!" exclaimed Leah, she grabbed the orange juice and sipped it slowly."So, when will we go back to NYC?" asked Leah, her eyes scanning all the food on the trolley and decided to pick a warm crois