When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie)

Chapter 103 Your Family’s Pride is Worthless

“Hah!” Leo unceremoniously sneered, “Do you think that’s possible?”

“You better not!” she countered right away.

Her eyes were finally clear again as if what he said had relieved her of a heavy burden.

Leo was speechless.

With an indifferent gaze, Amelie looked at him and changed the subject. “Did you say you wanted to take her back home? Are you trying to ruin her life?”

“Don’t be dramatic!” he rebutted coldly. “The Alston family is where she belongs. We will provide her with the best living conditions and education. Letting her come back with me is only for the best!”

“Yes, your family can provide these for her, but when you can’t even meet her basic needs, what’s the point?”

Amelie pulled Bria out a little, but Bria hugged her thigh tightly, not daring to take another step forward.

“Do you see that?” Amelie uttered softly. Looking at the intimidated look on her daughter’s face, she couldn’t help but feel heartbroken. “She’s afraid of you!”

“She’ll get used to it.” Leo didn’t put her words to heart. “The reason she’s afraid of me is that we don’t spend enough time together.”

“She stayed with you for three years,” Amelie reminded him. Though she couldn’t see how frightened Bria was, she held her in her arms.

Bria hugged Amelie’s neck tightly and snuggled her head into her mother’s embrace, not even daring to breathe too loudly!

Leo watched how Bria reacted and frowned.

He parted his lips, wanting to criticize Amelie for spoiling and overprotecting the child.

But before he could say that, Amelie beat him to it. “She has just been in her new school for three days, and all the children in class like her. Even the teacher complimented her for being the most lively and optimistic child in class. Have you never thought about why she’s afraid of you and scared of returning to Alston Residence?”

While gently caressing Bria’s back, Amelie looked into Leo’s eyes.

“Your family’s indifference toward her has deeply affected her. If she goes back, she will instinctively feel a sense of fear in her heart. Moreover, your mother and your sister hate her so much. Don’t you think you are forcing her to a dead end by putting her in such an environment? You never fulfilled your responsibilities as a father, so why inflict more pain on her now? Just because she is an Alston and people will humiliate you guys for not letting her grow up in Alston Residence? Leo, your family’s dignity isn’t worth a cent to me! If you want to take her away and destroy her life, I will fight you even if it means losing everything!”

Her voice was strong and determined, and there was ardent killing intent in her orbs.

After the divorce, Leo met her quite often, but he never saw her present hostility.

This was the first time he witnessed how strong a mother could be for their child.

bully Mommy and take me away from her, I will

man before her,

straightened her back and glared at Leo

she was glaring at a powerful enemy instead of her

stabbing his chest and almost lost his

her in his arm. The two

other hand, as a

his chest empty as if all the air

the back and said, “Wait for me

at Leo, as she was still worried that her

I’m only going to talk to Daddy for a while. I’ll be

did Bria slip out of her mother’s

the

under the tree. Leo’s gaze never moved away

stood amidst the

was dark, her face seemed to be glowing,

woman she was back when she stayed

felt like a completely

Alston Residence was a place

could one person

one case, and even Bria experienced the

out to him in a

how eerily similar

a strange thought emerged in

quickly moved on after Amelie said

during labor, you didn’t answer my call for help, so I regarded that as the second time you abandoned the child. Ever since the beginning, I was the only one who wanted her. Since you didn’t want her to be born, why don’t you act as if she wasn’t even born, to begin with? I will take her far away and never show up in front of you and your family. In that case, it won’t affect your marriage with Elyse,

thought about it, nothing else mattered as long

around and

Leo stood like a statue on the

their strength, allowing the paper to slip from his palms and

didn’t carry any hint of complaints, but he felt like she was

was so beaten up that he didn’t even

…

night, Leo pushed open the door to Prix Bar

you were tired and wanted to

project today. After that, he asked if Leo wanted