A Matter of Wife and Love by Mila

All of a sudden, Bria swung her arm in Amelie’s direction and hit Amelie on her hand. Amelie was taken by surprise, and her phone slipped out of her fingers. “What happened, Bria?” Amelie turned to check on Bria first.

Bria simply shrugged before scratching the back of her head. The young girl looked like she didn’t know how she had bumped into her mother either. “Let me carry her,” Amelie said as she glanced at Leo. Leo handed the child over without saying much. Then, he bent down to pick Amelie’s phone up for her. “Here you go,” he said.

Amelie nodded in appreciation before she took the phone from him and chucked it into her handbag. Soon enough, the bus arrived at their destination. The teacher directed all the children into the nursing home, and the dean of the nursing home delegated some cleaning duties to all of the parents and their children.

Even though Bria’s leg was injured, she insisted on being a part of the activity. Amelie hesitated for a while before she went to the toolshed and approached one of the staff members there. “Can you give us some cleaning tools?” she asked.

“Sure.” The staff member handed Amelie some tools, and her eyes lit up with admiration when she saw Bria. “You’re still helping out even though you’re injured, huh? That’s so nice of you,” the staff commented. Bria simply responded with a shy smile.

“How many sets of tools will you need?” the staff member asked.

Amelie hesitated for a while. “You can give me two sets,” she finally said.

“Three, please.” A man’s deep voice came from behind Amelie right after she finished speaking. Amelie was shocked when she turned to see Leo standing behind her. She had assumed that Leo was just there to spend time with Bria and that he wasn’t going to take part in any cleaning activities. Leo, on the other hand, didn’t seem to realize the look of surprise on Amelie’s face. He extended his long arm over her and took the tools on her behalf.

“Let’s go,” Leo said as he walked toward Bria and headed off with her. Amelie was left speechless for a while. She eventually hurried after them. The three of them were sent to a flat and cooling piece of land outdoors, where there was a layer of tree leaves scattered all over the ground. “Let’s sweep all of the leaves toward the middle first,” Leo suggested after looking at their surroundings.

so she couldn’t move around much, but she was still earnest as she swept up all the leaves in her area. She giggled to herself as she worked on her task. Meanwhile, Amelie stole a

he was dedicated to his task. He even seemed to work the broom with ease. He had taken his suit off and rolled his sleeves up. His posture was upright, and his arms looked strong as he swept the leaves—he looked like he had walked out of an oil painting. “Mommy’s checking Daddy out. Hehe…” Bria giggled with

two boys were extremely naughty. They were fooling around,

the air. Amelie saw the rocks flying in Bria’s direction, and she instinctively threw herself over Bria. Amelie could hear the rocks knocking against one another as they flew up into the sky, and she could already imagine how

back. All she felt was a looming figure above her. Amelie turned a little to notice the man’s long legs behind hers. When she spun around, she realized that Leo had protected her with his own

realized what just happened. This is the second time Leo has saved me today. Doesn’t he hate me? Why does he… Does he remember who I am now? Amelie parted her

in Leo’s direction. He had already walked off with his head hung low as if he were contemplating something. He showed no intention of responding to the twins’ parents. “We’re okay.” Amelie had no choice but to answer on Leo’s behalf. Despite so, the parents insisted on dragging their sons over to apologize to the victims

to give a few performances to the old folks after they were done cleaning the place up. The elderlies chuckled with excitement as they shuffled over to watch the performances. Bria handed the flowers that she had prepared to the elderlies while Amelie followed along to wheel Bria around. Amelie wore

direction, and she would realize that Leo was staring at them as well. For some reason, she could sense that Leo was acting in a rather odd manner. He was being especially silent. Could it be because he’s too

pathway up the hills was rather rocky, and Bria’s wheelchair couldn’t be brought up. Bria urged Leo and Amelie to go ahead without her. “Take your time! You don’t have to rush back to me.” Bria

she saw how naturally and effortlessly Bria had blended in with all the old people around her. Leo glanced at Bria as well. He realized how different Bria seemed in comparison to the way

the plant. Leo was efficient with his movements, but he stayed in his spot after he was done with his digging. Amelie didn’t know how long he was going to stay there,

the hole up, but he dodged her hand before he started filling the hole himself. She eyed him speechlessly before she got to her feet to head down the hill. “Do you hate me that much?” the

to head down the hills because she didn’t want to bother him. “You shouldn’t make it so obvious in front of