The dim light from the street lamps outside the window filtered through the window and Olivia vaguely saw a man lying on her bed.
“Dad had a fight with Mom and he’s sleeping in my room? So my plan to secretly surprise them has fallen through?”
When she was feeling a little disappointed, the figure on the bed suddenly sat up and turned on the bedside lamp.
Leonardo was overjoyed to see Olivia standing in the doorway.
“Olivia’s back! My God, this is the best Christmas present I’ve ever received!”
Olivia squinted slightly at the sudden dazzling light. And the man’s familiar breath splashed across her nose.
Olivia’s heart skipped a beat and she unconsciously raised her hand to cover his lips.
Leonardo froze.
“Is she afraid I’ll kiss her on sight?”
Leonardo took her in his arms and then carefully closed the door.
Stroking her straight hair, Leonardo whispered in her ear:
-Honey, don’t make a sound, or your parents will discover us and throw me out.
With the woman he dreamed of every day in his embrace, Leonardo was immensely content, and continued:
-Olivia, I love you. Marry me, okay? Let’s arrange the papers to get married tomorrow, okay? I promise you that I will only love you for the rest of my life. And I can transfer all my assets to you. May death befall me directly if I set eyes on another woman one more time.
He became so anxious that he made his determination clear at once. He really didn’t want to part from her anymore.
Olivia froze on the spot, with all sorts of emotions intermingling in her mind, including joy, sadness, reluctance….
Unconsciously stroking her belly, Olivia pushed him away, holding back tears, and spoke coldly:
-No, I don’t want to marry you. Please get out of my house.
Leonardo was stunned, as if he had received a stab in the heart.
“Did she refuse me? No! I must have heard wrong!”
-Olivia, don’t treat me this way, I love you! You’re worried that my mother is against our relationship, aren’t you? Don’t worry, because she already accepts you. She’s the one who told me to come get you.
Olivia let out a giggle, thinking about the photos saved on her phone and the message his mother had sent her this afternoon: “You little bitch, stay away from my son! You won’t be with Leonardo as long as I live! If you dare to bother my Leonardo again, I won’t leave you alone!”
After a long moment of silence, she said indifferently:
-I don’t love you anymore. I have a new boyfriend, please let go of me.
Leonardo let go of her slightly and looked at the indifferent woman in his arms, feeling an indescribable fear.
“Are you saying you don’t love me anymore? No, it can’t be!”
-No, Olivia, I’m not going to let you go. You’re lying to me-
Olivia ruthlessly interrupted him:
– “I’m not lying to you. Daniel is my new boyfriend. Haven’t you met him in the Catyblaca Nation? I left the hotel early that day on purpose to pick him up. Daniel is a wonderful man, very considerate of me, so I will be with him forever. Next year I’m going around the world with him. He is the love of my life…
Leonardo kissed her hard, not giving her a chance to continue.
“Olivia, stop it! Can’t you see my heart is bleeding? I’ve been waiting for you like a faithful dog. How can you fall in love with another man! How can you be so cruel to me?”
Leonardo’s kiss was full of bitterness, but in reality Olivia was also hurting badly inside. Before he lost control, she pushed him away forcefully and gave him a heavy slap across the face.
Leonardo recoiled slightly from the sudden slap.
Looking at the fingerprints on his handsome face, Olivia forced herself to be stern, looked down, pulled out her phone and spoke:
-Since you don’t believe me, I can show you the pictures between Daniel and me. Look, he’s taken a lot of me in bed….
-That’s enough!
Suddenly, Leonardo shouted and interrupted her, causing Olivia to flinch a little and the cell phone to slip from her hand and fall heavily to the floor.
“No, I can’t be so rude. I’m here to beg her to forgive me, I have to be nice to her.”
With that in mind, Leonardo stepped forward, hugged Olivia’s shoulders again and apologized:
-Olivia, I’m so sorry. I shouldn’t have bellowed. I promise I won’t do it again. I know you’re lying to me, and that you always have me in your heart. It’s all my fault, please forgive me. I promise I’ll be good to you in the future…..
Olivia broke free from his embrace and said:
-The past is past and that doesn’t matter to me anymore. I have started a new life. Leonardo, it’s time for you to start yours too, and I sincerely hope you can find the woman you love soon.
At that moment the phone that had fallen on the floor rang and they both looked towards it at the same time and saw the name on the screen: Daniel.
Olivia picked up the phone, answered the call in front of the man and even put it on speakerphone.
A metallic voice came from the other end of the line:
-Olivia, have you arrived at your house yet?
Olivia answered in the softest voice she could muster:
-Yes, I’m home already and you don’t have to worry. Didn’t you say you were coming to visit my parents? When are you coming?
Daniel was already surprised by the unusual softness of her voice, and when he heard her question, he reacted immediately: “She has met her ex-boyfriend! But how can it be so soon? At this hour, she must have just arrived home, right?”
Last time in the Catyblaca Nation, Olivia had been honest with him about her feelings for Leonardo and had refused his amorous confessions outright. Although Daniel liked her, he knew that love could not be forced, so he decided to remain friends with her. Now, under this situation, knowing that his friend needed his help, he therefore cooperated with her performance:
-I will be there in a couple of days. What gifts do I have to prepare for your parents. Will they like me, a foreigner, to be their son-in-law?
-There is no need to buy them presents, and your presence will suffice. My parents are kind enough, so don’t worry.
-Well. I’ve booked the ticket and you’ll come and pick me up at the airport, right?
-Of course. That’s all for now. I’m already very tired and I want to take a shower…
-Okay, take a bath with the rose petals I bought for you.
-Well, that’s all for now. See you a few days later, honey.
-I love you…
Olivia tried to answer him, but she couldn’t, so she hung up the phone directly.
Leonardo wanted very much to take the phone out of her hand and smash it to pieces as he watched her speak so softly and affectionately with another man, but he restrained himself in the end.
Olivia gave him an indifferent look and said:
-Now you believe what I told you, don’t you? I’m going to be married very soon, to Daniel….
Leonardo looked at her with eyes full of sadness and said:
-Olivia, does one who has made mistakes never deserve to be forgiven? You know I’ve been looking for you. Don’t you feel even a trace of the love I feel for you? What do you want me to do to prove my love for you?
Of course Olivia knew how Leonardo felt about her, but what else could she do? Her mother had already warned her repeatedly to stay away from her son. Instead of insisting on a fruitless love, it was better to live apart and never see each other.
She closed her eyes and said word for word:
-Leonardo, I am already pregnant with Daniel’s baby, can you accept such a me?