Love's Bitter Edge (Eva and Leonard)

Chapter 225

Chapter 225 Mimicry

During my recovery, plenty of colleagues came to visit. Some genuinely cared about my health, others were just showing respect, and quite a few were simply there for gossip. Finally, Julian, with his perpetual poker face, kicked everyone out.

"The patient is weak. If anyone upsets her and she dies from the stress, this hospital isn't taking the blame. If you want to go to jail, be my guest."

That single sentence sent the nosy ones packing. I couldn't help but give him a look of exasperation.

"Die from stress? Can't you say something nicer?"

"Wouldn't dying from stress be better than getting driven insane?" he shot back with a cold glance before leaving the room.

With the visitors gone, my days became a bit more peaceful.

Still, even from my hospital bed, I couldn't escape the barrage of news on the internet.

Leonard had firmly secured his spot as the biggest scumbag.

Even when Amelia tried to leak that video of him declaring the baby wasn't his, it barely made a ripple.

No one believed him.

honestly, I realized I photographed pretty well. Especially the shot of me lying on the floor at the press conference

was about to break. They didn't know I'd been broken for

my court,

occasionally remarked that Leonard might have suffered by

he didn't love, they were quickly

always sympathized with the underdog, and I was the underdog then. Who

up outrage again, just three days into my hospital stay. This time, it was because he'd taken Amelia shopping at a luxury boutique, dropping over 100 thousand

the sales assistants beamed, and even the

gave an interview, albeit with her voice

bring in his secretary here-the one who got

50 thousand dollars without blinking. Meanwhile, I heard his wife didn't even have money to pay off her

wife's in the hospital after a miscarriage! His behavior disgusts me. Though her identity was obscured, the uniform and the specific details of the items Leonard had bought for Amelia left no doubt about the

the interview but the

newer

refined and always carried a touch of novelty. Amelia used to dismiss the brand as predictable and boring. Her

suddenly, she was wearing the

anything strange about it. He even picked out a few white bags for her just like the ones I used to