I froze for a moment. It was obvious that he didn’t want me to live with Dennis.
Dennis knew what Leo meant. He smiled gently and clipped a piece of meat in my bowl, “You’v been thin these days. Eat more, please.”
Dennis was implicating that I’ve been thin because no one would take care of me there.
I kept silent. Originally I thought that those two could have a peaceful meal, but it seemed that I was overthinking.
Clariana didn’t know the intimation of them. She was talking with Karina, probably because children would always like to be close with pregnant women.
The little guy was sometimes pretty precocious, “Miss Karina, I will call you aunt Karina later, right?”
Hearing that, Leo turned to Clariana, “Honey, what do you want to eat? Uncle Leo will help you.”
Clariana asked him, “Uncle Leo, mommy told me that I should call your wife aunt. Will you marry Miss Karina?”
Leo frowned, “Eat more and talk less.”
Obviously, he didn’t want Clariana to ask too much about that.
Everyone knew.
Karina smiled bitterly, but didn’t say anything. No one knew what she was thinking.
I frowned, not satisfying with Leo.
No matter what had happened before, now that Karina was pregnant, he shouldn’t be so reckless as to hurt her.
“Clariana, honey, let’s eat more.” I looked at Leo and clipped some food for him, “Leo, do you remember the dog you picked up from the field when I was 11 years old?”
The topic seemed a bit abrupt. He froze and said, “Yes. It’s been many years.”
“Do you remember what happened to that dog?” I asked.
Leo said, “I asked you to keep it. After a few months, you had to go to school in the county, so it had to be given away.”
I nodded and said, “At that time, I thought it was troublesome to take it with me and take care of it, so I gave it to someone else. But after that, it was lost when I wanted to see it again. Over the years, I would always think that maybe I wouldn’t have to feel sorry for it now if I hadn’t given it away but let it stay in the yard with grandmother.”
Leo kept silent for a moment. Then he clipped a piece of meat for me and said, “Time has passed by.”
“Mommy, you also had a dog before? Is it like Snowball?” asked Clariana.
I smiled and nodded.
She also nodded and said like an adlut, “I cannot lose Snowball. I will keep it. I don;t want any regrets.”
I looked at Leo and said, “Leo, you know what I mean.”
Leo pursed his lips and did not speak.
Karina doesn’t like to speak, so she barely did it.
After the meal, we were drinking tea in the courtyard. Clariana took Karina to the backyard to see the flowers.
I was sitting opposite Leo, “When will you have the wedding ceremony?”
Leo frowned, “My wedding ceremony? With whom?”
“With Karina! You want to marry her after giving birth to the baby?” I said.
He shrugged, kind of unconcerned, “I won’t marry her. The baby is mine so I will have it, but I won’t marry her. I will give her a sum of money when the child is born. I want to transfer the child to you, like Clariana.”
I was too angry to say a word. I really wanted to pour the tea on him if it was not that hot.
“Leo, do you know how irresponsible you are? I feel sorry for Clariana, and you want to have the same feeling as me afterwards? Besides, what’s wrong with Karina? She is a graceful and good woman. What you are doing is just based on the fact that she loves you. I don’t want you to know what you have missed after she leaves.”
Leo was something indifferent. Taking a sip of tea, he leaned on the chair, “She wants money. I can give her money and she can give me a child, which is not irresponsible. Besides, I believe you will take good care of my child just like you do of Clariana.”
I could not stand but splashed the tea on him, “Stop daydreaming! I will never keep a child for you! As a man, you have to take all the responsibility, including keeping the child and marrying Karina!”
I went to the backyard, full of anger.
I had not been this angry for a long time. When I met Dennis coming down from the second floor, he could see that I was angry.
“What happened?” asked Dennis.
“Men are rubbish!” I said angrily.
He didn’t speak.
After a while, I suppressed my anger. He looked at me with a smile, “You aren’t angry anymore, right?”
I nodded and looked at him, feeling a little embarrassed, “I was just…”
He smiled, “I know, it was about the relationship between Leo and Miss Karina.”
I nodded, “He cannot meet another woman better than Karina, but he wants to be an infidel. I can’t understand him!”
He invited me to sit on the chair beside and said, “Are you mad at Leo’s irresponsibility, or his obsession with you?”
I said, “I am not people he love, but his sister. He hasn’t found it yet.”
I knew exactly what Leo meant. He cared me so much these years that others may found it love.
I understood his feelings. After all, I knew what’s love like. We met at a young age and suffered together. I could tell the difference between affection and love.
Both of us are lonely inside. Our nanny and Diana had passed away. We could only rely on each other at that time.
He would have taken action if he really loved me.
Dennis looked at me without saying a word for a long time.
I knew what he was worrying about, “I am angry, because he is unclear about himself. I am afraid that it will dawn on him one day when he has lost the most important person around him.”