Chapter 10%
I smiled at her. She really did look like me. Perhaps that was the reason the Amadeo family had chosen to adopt her
“I’m a government employee. No matter how long your arms stretch, you can’t reach my livelihood. Besides, there are plenty of opportunities waiting for me abroad.”
I
She put on a sweet, innocent expression, “I didn’t expect Brother Lea to stand up for me. Since you’re willing to apologize, I take it Brother Leo has already given you a lesson?
I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll let you have Liam back. I’ll choose Brother Leo instead. If it weren’t for our little argument, would I ever marry someone as boring as Liam?”
I tried to listen to her but, wow, this world was a tangled mess.
Leo came downstairs, holding the photo album and Salome fluttered toward him like a butterfly
“Brother Leo, I was going to tell Dad today, but I overheard your call with him. You said our families asked them to return immediately. Are you really that eager to be with me?”
The alliance continued.
I assumed she meant my betrothal X
I shot Leo a glance. Weren’t we supposed to be just friends?)
s’alliance c
could continue and you even
Leo avoided my gaze, his impatience evident as he pushed Salome away. The betrothal was never with you. I made it clear when you confessed that I rejected you.”
“But the person you’ve been waiting for might have been dead for years. I don’t understand why you and my parents are still holding onto this!” Salome’s voice trembled with grievance. “If you’re not marrying me, then why are you still discussing things with my parents?”
Just then, the Amadeo family’s parents arrived.!!
They rushed to me, showering me with warmth and affection, urging me to call them Mom and Dad X
It was painfully obvious. Even Salome could see it. She pointed at my hand, her fingers shaking. “You… You… You…
I smiled at her, my voice steady. Tm the lost daughter of the Amadeo family”
Salome stared at me in disbelief, watching as her parents treated me with such reverence. Unable to accept it, she turned and fled !!
As for me, I didn’t care much for the title of the Amadeo family’s eldest daughter. I reluctantly accepted it, but there was something more pressing.
Before I could truly settle into this new life, I needed them to make a decision.X
Would they send Salome to prison? She was the one behind the robbery five years ago.
I had kept my distance before, hidden behind the need for national secrecy. Still, now that I could finally step forward, I wouldn’t let the past be buried
After much deliberation, the Amadeo family, no, my parents, decided to send Salome to prison.
Back at the Amadeo family, Leo always found some excuse to visit me, claiming he was reminiscing about the past.
I couldn’t understand it. In a world full of warmth and love, why was he so fixated on me?
He didn’t even know the horrors of my past, but we weren’t close enough for me to bear those wounds.
It I didn’t open up, someone else would.
Leo took me out to watch the fireworks, but the bursts of light felt like nothing more than his confessions to me!
I was still trying to figure out how to turn him down when Liam suddenly appeared, looking like a man driven mad. “Anya, please don’t agree with him. I beg you, don’t. I was wrong. I’ll change. I’ll listen to you. Please, give me another chance.“}
I watched as Liam cried, his tears and snot staining his face and I couldn’t help but wonder if he had been possessed by someone else. The Liam I once knew was a cold, distant gentleman, elegant, aloof and arrogantly proud to the core. Now, here he was, humiliating himself in front of so many people
Leo caught me staring at Liam and perhaps fearing I might waver, he ordered the bodyguards to throw him out!
Liam seemed to have lost all sense of self–control. “Leo, are you going to pick up my worn–out shoes? She was with me when she was eighteen, always at my beck and call. She even had an abortion once, I’ve used countless birth control pills on her!”
“Leo, what kind of woman haven’t you met in your high society? Why not just leave Anya to me?”
Leo’s anger flared. He lunged at Liam, his fists flying. “You’re so proud of yourself, huh? You’ve got a serious problem! How dare you treat a girl like this? Is this how you were mised?”
The noise was unbearable, so I turned and left
All I could feel was disgust for Liam X
After such a mess, I thought that Leo should’ve been smart enough to see that I wasn’t the right match for him.
But no, he stayed outside my building all night, sending me message after message on WhatsApp.
“I won the fight. Is there a reword?“)
“I don’t care about your past. I just want your future.
His messages kept coming, a steady stream of words that kept me awake. I tried to ignore them, but eventually, I couldn’t resist. I went downstairs to meet him.
1:41 PM
My wife was known as the goddess of
other’s arms
