Chapter 31
Victoria didn’t need Lem to say anything. His expression alone tolither he was furious.
Steeling herself, she thought back to everything that had happened that night. Het gaze locked ontslin, and her vore was sharp. This was all your setup, wasn‘
Leon didn’t even flinch. “And what if it was?”
Victoria’s Fingers clenched into its
So that was why Aaron, someone known for being polite and respectable, had been acting sevent of character
“Why?” she demanded, struggling to understand
ce was cold and dismissive. It was as if he were looking at an insignificant insert. “And
To see just how stupid you are without me,” Leon said without evening any room for argument. His gaze from the looks of it, you’re beyond saving
“Am I the fool, or are you just looking for trouble? None of this would’ve happened if you had just stayed out of my life.
Victoria met his gaze. For the first time, she clearly defined the boundary between them with her words.
The all around Leon turned heavy. His expression was duk and unreadable.
Victoria snatched her phone from Aaron’s hand, throwing one last sentence at Leon. “If you’re really a man, then focus on your life with Eva Stay the hell out of mine.”
With that, she grabbed Susie’s hand and walbard away without hesitation.
The moment they left, the bathroom was engulfed in silence. The air was thick with tension.
Jason let out a cough. “Well, that didn’t exactly go as planned”
Leon shot him a sharp look
Aaron immediately backtracked “Alright, alright. I’ll shut up.
Leon glanced at him again. His tone shifted to all business. “What did you find from the surveillance footage 1 sent you?
“Strangely enough, that man looks vaguely familiar, but I just can’t hind anything on him.”
He sounded genuinely baffled “Normally, I’d have dug up every little detail about someone by now. But with this gay, 1 don’t even have a clue about his name, where he’s front, or anything And the weirdest part is your mother–in–law.”
At this point, Aaron gave him a serious look
Leon smply replied, “Go on.”
“When I tried to trace her past, everything cut off at her marriage to your father–in–law. Before that? Nothing No records, no background, no family history.
“It’s like the just appeared out of nowhere. I don’t think she’s as simple as the seems.”
Leon’s gaze darkened.
He had never looked into Laura’s past before.
He and Victoria had barely been married for long when she got into a car accident and fell into a coma. She was still unconscious to this day. All he knew was
was that her name was Laura, and the cured the same last name as Ber father. She didn’t have much of a presence in the Smith family.
“Keep digging into let mother,” Leon said as his gaze darkened. “We need to figure out who she and that man really are.”
Victoria had no idea that Leon was keeping these things from bar.
Altes leaving the hotel and getting into the car with Susie, she finally breathed a sigh of relet “I’m so glad you showed up.”
“Almost didn’t make it,” Susie muttered under her breath as she drove. Her voice was laced with frustration.
“I never exported Leon to use such underlunded tactics. III hadn’t caught un, I wouldn’t even have known you sent me that message!*
Victoria turned to look at her “What do you mean?”
Susie recounted the meeting with Vergil, including how he had called her over, but instead of discussing anything important, he had taken her phone and deleted the messages Victoria hat
“I must have been Leon who had my dad do it. Luckily, I kept my guard up. When you didn’t reply certainty.
sly to me, I went hu
I went home and checked it on the tablet,” Susie said with almostcomplete
She wouldn’t have noticed if she hadn’t checked, but when comparing the phone to the tablet, it was clear that twa messages Victoria had sent het wets i behavior in takingler phone, Susie immediately suspected something was off
Victoria paused. She realized that this was likely a warning from LeoEL
“By the way, before I came, a diamond collector reached out and offered to buy your diamonds. But since this is all tied to going against Leon, it’s risky. So, the price he offered is a bit lower only one million,” Susie said casually
