A Matter of Wife and Love

Chapter 142

Amelie stopped in her tracks and stood in her place while looking over.

She saw that person leaning against the car with his head slightly lowered. There was a cigarette between his fingers, and smoke was gradually rising from the cigarette.

The scene before Amelie surprised her because, in her memories, he rarely smoked.

Leo took a drag of his cigarette and saw Amelie, so he walked over.

Since he was quiet, his pursed lips and dark patches under his eyes gave others a depressing feeling.

Meanwhile, Amelie stared at him without moving.

He threw the cigarette bud to the floor before stepping in to put it out. “Since you guys don’t want Bria, you can give her to me.”

When Leo spoke, Amelie instantly understood what was happening. It seemed like he had read the interview article on the so-called “owner of Starlight Media.”

“What if I say the interview was a fake? That person is not the real owner of Starlight Media.” When Amelie spoke, she looked into his eyes with her clear and bright eyes.

She saw him frown, followed by a slight scoff.

“How does it feel to lie through your teeth?”

If Toby was the only one who said Elliot Poole was the owner of Starlight Media, perhaps he would still maintain some doubt. However, even Ashton found information proving that point, so how would Leo believe that Amelie wasn’t lying to him?

Leo’s face darkened even more, and his nicer attitude toward Amelie returned to how it originally was.

While looking at his raised eyebrow and sarcastic smile, Amelie felt helpless.

However, she didn’t want to fall out with Leo regarding Bria.

Therefore, she took a deep breath and suppressed the frustration in her mind before asking again, “Would you. believe me if I said I’m the real owner of Starlight Media? Elliot Poole does not even exist! If you don’t believe me, you can ask Julia or Samuel. Both of them are very familiar with me.”

This time, Leo did not scoff. Instead, he just stared at her with his jet-black eyes.

He pursed his lips and said nothing, but every cell in his body was silently telling Amelie that he was regarding her as a liar. Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Having realized that, Amelie laughed bitterly. “Right, Julia and Samuel are both my friends, and from your standpoint, you think they will help support my lie.”

“Bria is my daughter, and I will not give her to anyone. I can also promise that I will give her the best care.” Amelie could only declare her stand.

“Your so-called best care is to pay large amounts of money for her to live somewhere else so that you and your lover can live a peaceful life together?” Leo spoke in a cold and merciless voice.

For some unknown reason, he felt uncomfortable thinking about Amelie being lovey-dovey with another man.

“My daughter has a home, so she won’t need to live elsewhere!” While saying that, his tone was exceptionally firm.

Suddenly having a headache, Amelie argued, “Leo, what do you want me to do to make you believe that I won’t treat Bria like what is written in that interview? I can promise you I will never get married. Is that okay?”

However, Leo still had a stern expression.

It was no longer the era where two people had to get married before staying together.

Amelie felt like the person who staged all of this had trapped her in an invisible net, and no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn’t get out of it.

It was such a well-thought-out plan.

“You’re no longer suitable to take care of Bria,” Leo stated.

As he didn’t know Toby had meddled with the information, he believed that Elliot Poole was the real owner of Starlight Media after getting confirmation from two different people.

Toby had no reason to trick him, and Ashton also had no reason to fool him.

“Do you think you’re suitable to take care of Bria?” Amelie knew distrust could stop two people from talking with each other, so she didn’t want to come clean about other things. She stared him dead in the eye and said, “Don’t you forget that you and Elyse will get married and will have your own children. By then, what would happen to Bria? She will be the odd one out within your family of three. Do you know how devastating that would be to her? What’s the difference between that and living somewhere else?”

“Even if we have a child, she will still be my daughter, and Elyse will treat her as her own!” Leo replied directly, but it only made Amelie sneer.

She believed that Leo would treat Bria nicely, but Elyse? She naturally would treat Bria “nicely.”

Amelie had never trusted Elyse’s character.

“Leo, how about we do it this way? I’ll promise you that I will never date or marry anyone in my life.” She lowered her tone and sounded like she was pleading with him.

Leo smiled sarcastically. “Do you think your promises are believable?”

That caused Amelie to be at a loss for words. Her face froze as her eyes reddened in grievance.

Leo’s words were implying how she had never stuck to her words and how she made things up about their

“That was all…” with reason.

She didn’t finish her words.

Since Leo denied every word she said, what was the point of saying those words besides giving him a reason to make snarky comments about her?

Their conversation had come to a dead end.

Amelie looked around, and her eyes landed on the busy road.

“Leo.” She called out to him softly while smiling faintly. “How about we make a bet? If I lose, you can bring Bria away, but if I win, Bria stays with me.”

Leo’s eyebrows were scrunched together as he looked at her with questioning eyes.

She pointed at the car park beside the road. “I’m terrified of cold-blooded animals. If I can stay inside a car with eels for one hour, I win!”

After she said that, she didn’t wait for Leo to respond before walking toward the driver and buying a bucket of eels. Then, she jumped inside the bucket.

Those eels were slippery like snakes, and their skin was slimy and cold. Also, they looked absolutely revolting.

One after another, the eels inside the bucket began to squirm around after being disturbed when a human stepped inside the bucket.

Then, they began sliding against Amelie’s skin.

The icy-cold eels had their mouths running across her legs and constantly rubbing against her.

When Leo saw her buy those eels, he didn’t stop her because he knew she was terrified of them. Even the sight of them could make her tremble in fear.

He thought she was only threatening him, but she really stepped inside the bucket.

Meanwhile, the driver also didn’t know why she went inside the bucket, but he gracefully added some water inside.

The eels squirmed even faster and more violently when water was added to the bucket. The shocked eels were madly bumping into each other between her legs!

Leo’s eyes widened in shock because he remembered that she had previously fainted when Jodie placed two eels in her room, but now… she was even daring enough to be in contact with them?

Of course, Amelie was afraid.

The uncomfortable feeling one had of a living thing would usually develop into intense fear. The person would scream madly and feel suffocated when in contact with that thing even if it wasn’t something

dangerous.

Moreover, eels had the characteristics of a snake and would also bite humans when forced to.

Meanwhile, Leo clearly noticed her stiff body. Every time an eel passed through her leg, she would tremble slightly.

Also, her face was turning extremely pale at a visible speed!

But she was smiling at him.

Her smile seemed so pale, and he felt like an invisible hand was grabbing his heart.

A sharp pain came from his heart, and a tingling feeling surged inside him until it reached the top of his head!

Opposite him, Amelie couldn’t hold on anymore and fell backward…