After the meal, Amelia decided to go back."It's already dark outside, so you'd better not go home alone now. Why don't you stay here for the night? You can get your dad to send you to work tomorrow." Ember coaxed Amelia to stay behind, feeling a little reluctant to see her go.Amelia smiled. "I guess you didn't know about this, Mom, but in my job, I don't have to stay at the company all day. I can work at home too."Ember replied, "Oh, I see. That's great, then. After all, Liam's busy, and he probably doesn't have time to keep you company. Just stay here, I can take care of you too."Look how much weight you've lost! My heart aches when I see you like this. If you go back to your old home like this, your grandparents might think that we're mistreating you.""Mom, you're exaggerating," Amelia said. But still, she felt quite warm in her heart.Ember was a straightforward woman. If she didn't like someone, she would express it very clearly. But if she liked someone, she would since
Amelia didn't expect that Hannah would send her Leona's number after she hung up. But she didn't think much about it either and immediately dialed the number.The call went through, but it rang for a long time with no one answering the call.At that moment, Amelia's heart panicked even more as it thumped wildly.Neither of them picked up. Did something happen?She feared that Hannah was right, and that Leona was indeed trying to kidnap her man. She also feared that they might've gotten into some accident abroad, hence why they couldn't answer the calls.In a place Amelia wasn't aware of, a tense situation was unfolding in an underground casino."So, are you paying back the debts she owes?"A man with an eyepatch over his left eye was sitting on one end of the table. He had a vicious look on his face.On the other end of the table, a handsome man sat calmly.He said, "I told you before that I need a guarantee for her safety. Also, you have to promise that you will never give he
After leaving the underground casino, Liam and Leona hailed a cab. As soon as they got into the cab, Liam began to cough."What happened to you, Liamo? Did you get hurt?" Leona had an anxious look on her face as she supported him. She examined him from head to toe.Liam shook his head. "I'm fine."Earlier, when he saw Leona being held back, he wanted to save her. But because he wasn't guarded, he suffered some hits. Later on when he came to his senses, he got into a fight with those underlings.It was only after he had defeated all of them that the man with the eyepatch appeared."It's all because of me. It's my fault. I shouldn't have walked around carelessly. I knew that there were still people here … I should have stayed at home and packed up." Leona had a look of self-blame on her face. She didn't expect to have such bad luck. She was just buying something in a mall nearby, but she encountered the man with the eyepatch.When she remembered the days she spent with that m
It was already late at night, but Amelia didn't feel sleepy at all.She leaned against the bed headboard and gazed at her phone screen. She had dialed the number countless times, but it never went through.As she watched the screen turn dark, she felt something cold on her face. When she reached up and wiped it, she saw crystal clear liquid on her hand.So she was crying?"Hah!" She chuckled. Liam was abroad now, and there were more than thousands of miles between them. No matter how worried she was or how much she thought about it, she couldn't do anything.If Liam truly cared about her, he wouldn't have been silent for two days.But why did her heart hurt so much?What exactly had happened to him that he wouldn't be able to contact her? Or was it because … he already had the woman he truly wanted next to him?Amelia felt lost, and she didn't know what to do.Just then, her phone suddenly rang. She was startled, but she was elated as well. When she looked at the screen,
Liam had just exited the bathroom when he heard someone knocking on his door.After putting on his bathrobe, Liam went to open the door. He saw Leona's smiling face right away. She said, "I came over to deliver something. I also have a message to relay."Liam smiled and stepped aside. "Oh? Come in, then.""Here. I found it in my bag when I went back to my room just now. I must have taken it by accident last night." Leona handed him a phone. With just a glance, he could tell that it was his phone.Liam took his phone and smiled. "Thanks. You also said that you had a message to relay?""Yes. I noticed that someone called you, and many times too. I was worried that it was something urgent, so I answered it for you. You don't mind, right?" Leona stuck out her tongue, looking a little mischievous."It's fine. You've already answered it anyway." As Liam spoke, he checked his call records. As expected, they were all calls from Amelia."Do you have anything else to say?" He had to
After Amelia ended the call, her mind was still in a mess.She recalled that time when Liam had come back from his business trip to Amerizon. He said that he had found out some things about Eric abroad, and he met a woman who was trying to abort Eric's child in her belly.Amelia didn't expect that Liam would bump into that woman again, and on his first day there no less. What's more, that woman's last name was Richards.Could such a coincidence exist?Eric's last name was Richards as well, and the two had that sort of relationship.Amelia wondered if Eric knew that the woman had once aborted a child for his sake.For some reason, Amelia thought of Hannah again. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart. She didn't know what to make of it either.She felt that Eric was such a good man, so when it came to these things, why was he so … unlucky? Or messy?As various thoughts filled her mind, she slowly fell asleep.Meanwhile, Liam was still chatting with Leona.Leona kept fidgeti
"In the four years I was here, One-Eye paid for all my expenses. He … He loved me, and he was good to me. He was also willing to spoil me. And not long before I regained my memories, I even … agreed to his marriage proposal."Leona finally sobbed."But later on, I remembered that I was Luke's fiancee. I was supposed to get married to him, so how could I be married to another man?"I … I changed my mind. I argued and fought with him. He had a bad temper, and I hurt his pride when I rejected him. He began to curse me and hit me. Look at all these scars on my body. They're all his doing!"Perhaps because she had remembered the past, Leona got so overwhelmed that she took off her clothes without any consideration for her reputation. Liam instantly saw the scars on her body.At that moment, Leona was only wearing a black lace bra on the upper half of her body. She had a great figure, and her supple skin, paired with the tempting view, exuded a seductive air.However, Liam's attentio
After Leona left, Liam went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water. As he looked at himself in the mirror, he chastised himself fiercely.What sort of nonsense was he thinking about just now?Leona was Luke's fiancee. Even if Luke had passed away, Luke was the person Leona loved. If not, why would she endure One-Eye's wrath instead of getting married to him?Also, most importantly, Liam was Amelia's husband now. He loved her too, so even if Leona truly had feelings for him, it was pointless!Now, Liam felt more remorseful toward Amelia for zoning out earlier. But unbeknownst to him, Leona was elated because of his zoning out and the quickening of his heartbeat.He had lost his composure because of what she said, which meant that he still had feelings for her! But because he already had Amelia, and he was falling for Amelia as well, he had buried his feelings for her!Now that she was back, she was confident that she could revive his love for her!In the president'