Chapter 207
Amelie turned around to see Elyse sitting in a wheelchair with a smile on her face. Someone was
pushing her up the hill. Elyse was dressed in a long, white dress that perfectly covered her leg that was
in a cast. She had natural-looking makeup on her face that made her seem especially mesmerizing.
Amelie snapped back to reality—as if someone had poured a bucket of ice water over her—when she
saw Elyse. What’s wrong with me? Leo and Elyse are about to start a new family. Wouldn’t I cause
more problems for Leo if I brought up the past? He might have caused me problems by forgetting about
me, but what would I gain from causing him problems now?
“You guys should enjoy yourselves.” Amelie excused herself and headed down the hill without any
hesitation. Amelie figured that Elyse’s presence would bring her a lot of unnecessary issues, so Amelie
decided not to head back with the rest of the group. She hailed a cab for herself instead.
Amelie wheeled Bria over to the side of the road before she used an application on her phone to book
a cab. The nursing home was in a rather secluded area, so it was hard for her to get a cab there. She
requested one but didn’t get an offer for a long while. Right then, a seven-seater Cayenne pulled up in
front of them.
The man inside the car lowered his window to reveal his icy face. “Get in,” the familiar-looking man said
to Amelie. She let out a scoff when she saw who it was. “It’s fine.” She rejected him in a polite tone.
Leo knitted his brows together upon hearing her words.
“There’s no need to be polite with us, Miss Dillon. Let’s head off together.” Another person stuck her
head out of the car window in the back. It was Elyse, and she was wearing a huge and innocent-
looking smile on her face. If Amelie hadn’t seen Elyse’s true colors, she might have thought that Elyse
was genuinely a nice person.
“It’s hard to get a cab here, and you might have to wait for a long while. You might be fine with waiting,
but I’m not sure about Bria,” Elyse uttered. Amelie stared at Elyse silently. Bria and I wouldn’t have to
be in this tough situation if you hadn’t shown up, Amelie thought to herself. There were other families
who were heading down the hill after nting their trees, and things would get worse if those families
passed by and saw Amelie standing around with Elyse in the car.
Amelie finally nodded before lifting Bria into her arms. “Let’s take Daddy’s car home.” Leo’s driver
rushed out of the car to help store the wheelchair in the boot. Amelie initially wanted to take the driver’s
seat so that she wouldn’t have to see the couple in action, but she couldn’t do so as Bria was too
young to sit in front. Amelie was contemting her next move when Leo got out of the car.
“You should sit in front, Leony. I hope you don’t mind,” Elyse uttered from inside the car. She gave him
an apologetic look after that. Amelie eyed both of them speechlessly. This wasn’t the first time Amelie
witnessed how obedient Leo was to Elyse, but Amelie still felt disgusted every time she saw the way
they interacted.
Amelie tried her best to keep herself invisible throughout the car ride. Bria didn’t seem to be in a good
mood either—she kept quiet throughout the whole ride, with her hands clinging onto her mother’s arms
and her head buried in her mother’s chest. Bria pouted the entire time. It was obvious that Bria was
hurt by Elyse’s sudden appearance.
Amelie felt sorry for her daughter, so she patted Bria’s back gently tofort her. Bria pulled one of her
hands away from Amelie to press it against her own belly, creating a barrier between herself and
Amelie. This was one of Bria’s signature moves—she often did this when she was feeling down or
insecure. Amelie felt rather sad for Bria, so she lowered her head to press her cheek against Bria’s
hair. I tried so hard to make sure that Bria wouldn’t be hurt by me and Leo’s divorce, but things still
turned out like this.
The car was silent throughout their one-hour drive back to Amelie’s housing area. Bria was fast asleep
by the time they arrived, and Amelie tried to carry Bria out of the car without waking her up. “Please
help me get the wheelchair,” Amelie whispered to the driver.
However, before the driver could do so, Leo had already opened the boot to retrieve Bria’s wheelchair.
Amelie watched as Leo’s bony hands picked the wheelchair up before he expanded it and ced it on
the ground. Amelie gave him a pleasant smile. “Thanks, Mr. Alston. You can leave the wheelchair here.
I’ll pick it upter.”
Bria was fast asleep on Amelie’s shoulder, and Amelie was worried that she would wake the child up if
she moved around too much. Thest thing Amelie wanted was for her daughter to be hurt again by
the sight of Leo leaving with another woman. Amelie turned to walk off after thanking Leo. However,
right when Amelie arrived at her front door and was about to let herself in, she saw the man’s bony
hand reaching forward to open the door for her.
Amelie was shocked as she hadn’t expected Leo toe after her. “Thanks,” she uttered politely.
Then, she stepped into her house. Amelie had been certain that Leo would leave her alone after she
entered her house, but to her surprise, he followed her in. Amelie couldn’t help but freeze for a
moment. “We’re home, Mr. Alston. You shouldn’t keep your fiancée waiting. You should leave now,”
Amelie uttered with Bria still resting on her shoulder.
“Elyse…” Leo knitted his brows together. “Elyse is your fiancée, and I’m not interested to hear about
you two. Thank you for spending time with Bria today. I appreciate it,” Amelie uttered in a curt and firm
manner. She had no interest in hearing about Leo’s loving rtionship with Elyse.
Not interested? Amelie’s words stabbed Leo’s heart like a dagger. He was silent for a long while before
he spoke. “You mentioned that you used to know me. What happened between us while we were still in
Quinn Town?” he asked.
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Amelie hadn’t expected Leo to ask such a question. However, she was no longer in the mood to
exin herself to him at that point. “We’ve been married for four years. Doesn’t that count as knowing
each other? Anyway, don’t you know what happened between us in Quinn Town? What I meant was
how we would bump into each other at least three times a day back in that town. You suspected that I
had some ulterior motive, and I felt really misunderstood back then. I only brought it up because I hope
that you’d stop assuming things about me.”
Amelie pressed her lips together for a while before she spoke again. “Perhaps I once held hopes
toward my rtionship with you, but… I’ve lost all hope since we got a divorce. If you wish to see Bria
again, you should call me and inform me beforehand, Mr. Alston. I’ll get someone to send her to you
after I’ve asked for her permission.” In other words, Amelie was implying that she didn’t have ns of
seeing him in the future.
Upon finishing her words, Amelie waved at him before turning around and walking off. Leo no longer
went after her, and Amelie shut the door behind her before she let out a sigh. Amelie knew that she
couldn’t me anyone else for Elyse’s sudden appearance—it was her fault that she didn’t see this
coming. I’m never going to ask Leo to participate in another activity like this again. Amelie tucked Bria
into bed and stayed around in the living room for a while before she realized that she had left Bria’s
wheelchair outside.
When Amelie walked out to get the wheelchair, she realized that there was a figure standing beside the
wheelchair. “Leo?” Amelie called out instinctively. The man’s figure looked rather simr to Leo’s.
However, Amelie then recalled that Leo was dressed in dark blue cks. The man before her eyes was
dressed in a full white outfit and had his hair tied up.
The visitor was… Toby. “What are you doing here, Mr. Walsh?” Amelie changed her tone of voice as
she walked up to him. “Are you here to meet my father? He’s not home.” Amelie had just finished her
words when Toby reached out and pulled her in for a hug. Amelie froze—she was speechless for a
while before she pushed him away. “What’s going on, Mr. Walsh?”
Amelie had always thought of Toby as a gentle and ssy man—she had never seen him acting so
rashly. The next second, she smelled the stench of alcohol on him. “Were you drinking earlier?”
Toby took a deep breath before he spoke in a raspy voice. “I understand now. I know everything now,”
he said.
“What… do you know?”