"Don't pretend to be innocent in front of me. Three years ago, you ended up sharing a bed with another man and to think I actually believed you wanted a platonic relationship with me."
Leah's face burned from the slap. She lowered her gaze while clutching her cheek.
Back then, her heart had belonged solely to Leon. She had dreamed of giving herself to him completely after their engagement. However, who could have foreseen the cruel twist of fate that shattered her plans?
Who would have thought that she would lose her purity in the Diakos Villa, only the man was not Leon?
When she had discovered her pregnancy in prison, she had felt a whirlwind of shock and joy. That feeling would never return. Leon had personally destroyed her love and future.
After enduring three years in prison, the man before her no longer had the power to stir her heart anymore because all she felt toward him was disgust.
"Leon let me go. I'm begging you," Leah pleaded with a weak humble voice.
Leon's hand shot out and gripped her throat, his bloodshot eyes filled with rage. "I told you that's impossible! Leah, you will spend the rest of your life atoning for what you did to Ella!"
Summoning a strength, she didn't know she had, Leah shoved him away. Barefoot, she bolted from the hospital room without looking back. She had to escape and find a way to find her child. She could not afford to fall into that hell again.
However, no matter how much she had planned, she hadn't anticipated one thing Ella would be standing right outside the door.
The moment Leah stepped out, Ella stuck out her foot and sent her crashing to the ground.
"What? Are you trying to run? That's not going to happen, my dear little sister," Ella sneered. "You haven't given me your kidney yet. How could I let you leave so easily?"
Leah's hand had broken. She tried to prop herself up but slipped across a trace of blood.
"Ella, sister … you weren't like this before, why are you ....”
"Don't call me that!" Ella snapped. "I hate you! You wear that face and act all innocent while trying to steal the love that belongs to me! If it weren't for you, Mom and Dad would have only doted on me!"
Yet even with her existence, hadn't their parents only ever favored Ella? Leah felt her last bit of hope shatter into nothing.
Leon stepped out of the room, his gaze cold as he looked down at her curled-up figure. Without hesitation, he kicked her hard.
"Stay away from her, Ella. Who knows what tricks she pulled to make my uncle speak up for her? I don't trust her scheming ways."
Ella immediately changed her expression and wrapped her arms around Leon’s arm like a delicate vine. "Leon, I'm scared. What if she tries to kill me again? I can’t let her come home."
As she said that, she let a few tears slip down her face, she looked so pitiful.
When it came to deception and acting, who could compare to this sister of hers? For years, from childhood to adulthood, Ella had played her role flawlessly and earned her sympathy while Leah took every beating meant for her.
Leah still remembered the night she was beaten black and blue by their father. It was Leon who had taken her to the hospital in the dead of night. Back then, he had been a sincere, kind-hearted boy, but that boy had died now.
Since getting out of prison, he had already slapped her twice. The part of her that wanted to ask him why he had done this to her, had already broken beyond repair.
"If you hate seeing me so much, just let me go," Leah said.
Leon frowned. "Leave? Not a chance. From today onward, you're coming back with me. In fifteen days, you’ll undergo surgery and donate your kidney to Ella."
Ella pouted while clinging to his arm. "Leon, how can you let her stay at your place? We’re the couple, what will people think?"
"I’ll send her to the Diakos Villa. She can stay in the servants' quarters."
Ella beamed. She leaned in to kiss Leon’s cheek. "Now that’s more like it."
Leah found the scene sickening. However, as long as she could stay far away from the three of them, she was more than willing.
