Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)

Chapter 18

Chapter 18 Trouble

My comerations with Leonard at home always ended in arguments.

Over the past three years, Leonard would intentionally say provocative and offensive things to me. Of course, intimidated by the agression. did the

he same to him, too. After all, Thad already died twice, so I was not

The last thing I cemembered was turning around before falling into deep sleep. I didn't even remember what Leonard cursed at me about. Thankfully, my body was weak Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to sleep well.

The next day, Robert came to apologize to me at the office.

"Ms. Greeterribly sorry about yesterday. My friends were drunk, and they didn't mean is insult you. Please explain the situation to Mr. Harmon on our behalf. I noticed he was rather angry yesterday," Robert said politely, seemingly worried. Leonard seemed furious yesterday. It made sense that they were frightened

Leonard was known to have many sugar babies, but I was still his wife. People said that Leaned only did that because I hurt him and that Leonard actually loved me deeply. But Leonard had hect me for years too. I wondered if that meant we were even Not wanting to dwell on the issues between Leonard and me, I shook my head and smiled at Robert

"You must be kidding, Mr. Wells It was my fault yesterday. Mr. Harman must've given your friend quite the seace. Please apologize to him on my behalf.

"What do you think about our collaboration?" Lasked, staring intently at best. The collaboration was my main focus.

"Since you and Mr. Harmon both case to meet me personally, we should carry on with the collaboration. But ivant non-professionals shouldn't be involved in this project

Robert was referring to Leonard's

to show me respect, but Robert said that in front of everyone in the design department. Lily

summoned me to his office, Lily was already in

Wells to remove me from the

in charge of

then back out" rolled my eyes at Lily and continued, "Didn't Leonard tell you that he was there yesterday? If you have questions, you should ask him." The doctor said I had to maintain a positive mood to prevent the cancer from clapsing With chemot Thus, I decided to behave like a mad woman. If anyone provoked me, I would lash out immediately, I had no mercy for anyone who

me, so she had no idea about my temper. Lily was about to say more, but other

po" said Leonard Since Leonard had said that, it meant that the decision was final. reluctantly, "But I collected all

Lily." Leonard's tone wasn't gentle, but it definitely sounded

She said shyly,

but deel nauseous. Covering my mouth with

him. When 1 returned from throwing up, Lily

inside. But Mr. Harmon said you can take full charge of the Dawnstar Corporation project. Don't worry. I will back out of the

at Lily in rprise. I hadn't

raised her voice and said, "Harmon said projects like these were bound to business meetings with company CEOs, and there is always the need to drink alcohol. He was worried that I'd be

Lily's smug face made me want to vomit again. Limitated her and smiled. "Yeah. After all, you'd only bring shame

blubber, I turned around and

on the team, the project

still had to conduct an

the past few months, it was rather challenging to make changes to the