At the Henley family, besides Sophia, Fanny was the most beautiful. Even if Fanny couldn’t marry into a first-class family like the Browne family, marrying into a second-class family like the Henley’s would still be acceptable.
In other words, Fanny still had investment value. If he helped her this time, she would definitely listen to him more in the future and could become quite a force. All in all, it was worth it.
With this thought in mind, Bruno’s eyes flashed with cunning as he coughed twice and asked in a fake tone, “Fanny, if I help you get through this difficult time now, will you obey my every word?”
“Of course! Whatever you ask me to do from now on I will do without hesitation,” Fanny quickly assured him.
“Good then. First sell off everything that you bought with your dowry and try your best to raise money. If there isn’t enough money, I’ll find ways to make up for it.”
“Thank you so much Bruno! You’re my real brother!” Fanny breathed out a long sigh of relief.
…
In the evening, in his room in the small building at the backyard of Nameless Clinic, Leo had just finished drawing the talismans.
At that moment, his phone rang, and he saw that it was a call from Karen.
Leo hesitated for a moment but decided to answer the call.
As soon as the call connected, Karen started shouting, “Leo, have you gone crazy? You actually divorced Sophia!?”
“Do you know how much you’ve hurt Sophia with what you did? I swear, you must have lost your mind!”
“Do you have any idea how deeply Sophia loves you? When I saw her yesterday, she looked like a completely different person, worn out and much thinner. You’re just too much!”
Karen’s words pierced Leo’s heart like needles.
Leo couldn’t tell Karen the real reason yet, he couldn’t explain that he divorced Sophia to protect her.
To protect Sophia, let others misunderstand him, Leo didn’t care at all.
Seeing Leo remain silent, Karen yelled again, “Leo, why aren’t you saying anything? Cat got your tongue?”
“Karen, I had no choice,” Leo sighed and said.
Hearing this, Karen exploded, “What do you mean you had no choice? Wasn’t Sophia good to you? You’re such a jerk, not appreciating what you have!”
Leo knew it would be pointless to say more to Karen, who didn’t know the truth, so he hung up the phone directly.
On the other end of the call, Karen, seeing that Leo dared to hang up on her, immediately smashed her phone on the ground, cursing, “Bastard! How dare you hang up on my call? I’ve completely misjudged you!”
When Karen found out that Leo was the piano man she had been longing for day and night, she developed a liking for him, or rather, she secretly fell in love with Leo, feeling admiration towards him.
But Leo was the husband of her best friend, and she would never try to steal him away. So Karen buried those feelings deep in her heart, and all she had for Leo and Sophia’s marriage and love was envy.
When Sophia told her about the divorce, Karen’s initial reaction was to think it was a joke. In Karen’s mind, the love between Leo and Sophia was perfect and unbreakable.
If such a love could end in divorce, then there might not be true love left in this world.
When Karen saw Sophia in person, just by observing her emotional state, Karen knew that what Sophia said was true – she had indeed divorced Leo.
Karen immediately asked Sophia why they got divorced, but Sophia only told her that it was Leo who wanted the divorce.
At that moment, Karen wanted to call Leo, but Sophia stopped her.
After returning home, Karen became increasingly upset. In the end, she couldn’t hold back and called Leo to vent her frustrations.
What Karen didn’t expect was that Leo would hang up on her without showing her any respect.
Karen sat on the sofa, looking at her broken phone on the floor, feeling frustrated.
Leo’s mood was also ruined by Karen’s call. Looking at the phone screen, he suddenly remembered Amaya, or more specifically, he remembered the old man named Hayden who was with Amaya.
If he could form an alliance with Amaya and get Hayden to help, their chances of dealing with Maniwa would be much greater.
After a brief consideration, Leo found Amaya’s name and dialed the number.
On the other side, in a hotel room, Amaya was leaning back on the sofa, listening to music and drinking red wine.
The ringing of her phone disturbed her comfortable mood.
She casually picked up the phone that was placed aside, and when she saw Leo’s name on the caller ID, Amaya couldn’t help but cough – she accidentally choked on her wine.
Amaya put down her wine glass and quickly pressed the answer button.
“Leo, I didn’t expect you to call me.” At the moment the call connected, Amaya suddenly said this.
Leo on the other end didn’t know how to respond for a moment.
Amaya continued, “Leo, did you really have to go this far between you and Sophia?”
Leo could clearly hear that Amaya’s tone was not regretful, in stark contrast to Karen’s tone when she called earlier.
“I suppose you already know that I got involved with the Orientia people. Given the current situation, if I want to protect Sophia from harm, I had to choose to divorce her.” Leo replied concisely.
“I know. Since you thought of me, why don’t you come to the hotel where I’m staying? Let’s talk face to face.” Amaya directly extended an invitation to Leo.
“The hotel address?”
“I added you on What’s App. Accept the request, and I’ll send you the location.”
After hanging up the phone, Leo put on a coat and left.
In the hotel, Amaya put down her phone, picked up the glass of red wine from the coffee table, crossed her legs, and leaned back on the sofa with a smile on her lips.
“Leo, now that you’re divorced from Sophia, once I have you in my hands, I won’t have any psychological burden…” Amaya took a sip of the blood-red wine and murmured to herself.
Half an hour later, someone knocked on the hotel room door.
Amaya knew it was Leo and quickly got up to open the door.
Before Leo arrived, Amaya had changed into a loose home outfit and put on light makeup, intending to present her beautiful figure and delicate face perfectly to Leo.
The door opened, and a sweet smile appeared on Amaya’s face as she extended her hand, “Leo, please come in.”
Leo had already witnessed Amaya’s beauty before, so even though Amaya was stunning at the moment, she didn’t attract too much of his attention.