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.

shot of me lying on the floor at the press conference had

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

court, and few came to Leonard's

someone occasionally remarked that Leonard might have suffered

didn't love, they were quickly drowned out by

I was the underdog then. Who

my hospital stay. This time, it was because

beamed, the sales assistants

voice altered and face blurred, recounted the scene with

one who got shot by the police and the one

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

at anything under 10 thousand. And his 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

me the hardest wasn't the

newer

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

was wearing the brand,

about it. He even picked out a few white bags for her just like the