The hospital was located in the suburbs. When Summer drove away from the hospital, she was heading toward a remote area.
There was less traffic in that area, so Leonardo overtook her and stopped his car horizontally in the middle of the road to block her car. She pressed the brake pedal and stopped the car, but she did not get out.
Leonardo got out and walked over to her car, wanting to open the car door, but it was locked.
“Summer, get out!” Leonardo banged his hand on the door.
She glanced at him sideways, lowered the window just a bit, and called 122 in front of him.
“I’m on Linshui Road, south of the city. A car has stopped in the middle of the road…”
Before Summer could finish her call, Leonardo reached through the window gap, snatched her mobile phone away, and hung up.
“Get out,” he said coldly.
Summer quirked an eyebrow, opened the door, and stepped out of the car. Leonardo reached to hold her hand, but she foresaw what he was going to do and dodged his hand. His face changed instantly, and there was tension between them.
Summer looked emotionless and said, “Let’s break up.”
She thought she was married to Leonardo at first, but she only realized that the names on the marriage certificate were “Vicky and Leonardo” when sh*t hit the fan. After that, Leonardo divorced Vicky and wanted to register his marriage with Summer. However, Summer had not agreed, so the matter had been dragging on.
A woman’s intuition was the most amazing thing in the world. Back then, she did not know why she delayed registering her marriage, but now, everything was clear.
Leonardo narrowed his eyes, his expression dangerous. “I dare you to repeat that again.”
“You don’t trust me. I live like a prisoner in your house, waiting for the final judgment from your family, and I can’t do anything about it. Enough is enough.” Summer looked even more determined now. “Since you don’t trust me, we should go our separate ways. I will find the evidence to prove my innocence.”
“You want to leave me?” Leonardo sneered. “In your dreams!”
Summer’s expression changed. The next second, Leonardo carried her and shoved her into the car. He got in, locked the door, and drove.
Physically, she was no match for Leonardo. She closed her eyes, feeling a little tired. Then she reopened them and spoke indifferently. “Either we break up, or you tell me what you are going to do.”
Leonardo ignored her and just drove silently.
Summer waited for his reply, and after she realized that he was not going to answer, she looked out the window. Leonardo sent her back to the mansion.
This time, he increased the security measures in the mansion, adding more bodyguards on the outside and inside, turning the mansion into what might look like a maximum-security prison.
Summer stood on the balcony on the first floor, appearing apathetic as Leonardo issued instructions to the bodyguards in the garden. As though he had sensed her stare, Leonardo looked up in her direction.
She turned and retreated back into the bedroom. It was early January, and the air was cold. Back in the room, she covered herself with a woolen blanket on the sofa as she wrote screenplays on her laptop.
Not long after, the door opened, but she did not look up. Judging from the steady stride, she knew it was Leonardo.
He came and stood in front of her. “I’ll be busy. You take care of yourself.”
She still did not look at him or say anything.
Her distantness probably angered Leonardo; he clutched her jaw and forced her to look at him.
“Summer, I’m talking to you.”
He was using too much force, and her jaw hurt. Forced to look up at him, she frowned.
“Are you done? If you are, stop disturbing me. I’m working on my script.”
Leonardo clenched his jaw as he tried not to explode, yet his eyes burned with anger. He almost went through the roof.
Summer thought of their hostile relationship and related it to how he dealt with his enemies. She could not help but shiver inside her. Her flicking eyelids gave away her thoughts.
However, Leonardo did nothing. Flinging his hand, he walked away. She felt her jaw and breathed a long sigh of relief.
A woman could bluster in front of a man because she knew the man loved her. But now, Summer did not even know what was on Leonardo’s mind. How would she dare to bluster before him and hope to be pampered?
Just now, for a split second, she was really worried that Leonardo might rip her jaw apart. Luckily, he was still not that ruthless.
She thought everything would be over once Grandpa Emerson regained his consciousness because he could prove her innocence. But when Grandpa Emerson woke up, he had lost his sanity.
Kate’s words still rang in her ear, and what Leonardo said hurt her badly. Her belief was that she should never put her life into the hands of a man, especially when she could not even fathom what the man was thinking.
She was facing a baseless accusation and possible imprisonment. She could not place her hope in Leonardo, not anymore. Initially, she thought that she could trust him, but he had made his stance clear, and she could not ignore it. She wanted to save herself.
Lynn had cut ties with her via the newspaper, but legally, she was still in the Jarrett family register. She found Karen’s telephone number, and when the call went through, Karen’s distant voice was heard.
“Ms. Jarrett, what do you want?”
She could not wait to call her “Ms. Jarrett” now? Summer’s lips curled into a sneer as she spoke. “I want to withdraw my name from the family register.” She needed a separate register.
Karen was silent. After a while, she said, “Your name was removed long ago when Leonardo came to see your grandpa.”
Karen had only found out when Lynn vowed to cut ties with Summer a few days ago. Leonardo had withdrawn her name from the Jarretts’ household register?
Summer hung up and ran into Leonardo’s reading room to search for her household register. After all, she needed it for many things.
Leonardo had not entered the room for many days, but the maids came every day for cleaning. It was a large room. Summer looked high and low, then finally, her eyes landed on a locked drawer under the desk.
She tried to pull it open, but it would not budge. Since she rarely touched Leonardo’s belongings, she did not know where he kept the drawer key.
She thought for a while, went out into the garden downstairs, and found a brick.