A Matter of Wife and Love novel Chapter 398

Chapter 398 She’ll Have to Pay!

“Who else could it be? Mrs. Alston didn’t get much rest last night, and she has been complaining about her headache ever since she woke up this morning. She eventually got the doctor to come over as she couldn’t handle the pain any longer.” Leila let out a sigh. “Mrs. Alston has been really worried recently.”

Amelie understood what was going on even though Leila wasn’t explicit with her words.

“Okay,” Amelie uttered before she hurried into the house. As expected, she found Melissa lying on the couch with a weak look on her face.

Melissa used to love painting her nails, but her nails were naked and bare right then.

“Are you feeling better?” Amelie asked gently as she walked over.

Melissa had her eyes closed at first, but she opened them wide after hearing Amelie’s voice. The bitter and weak look on Melissa’s face was immediately replaced by a more energetic one as Melissa pushed herself up to sit on the couch. “You’re here! Come over and take a seat. Go on and get her some soup, Miss Potts. Hurry up,” Melissa ordered.

Leila had just sent the doctor out, and she looked rather flustered upon hearing Melissa’s impatient tone. Amelie held Leila’s hand to stop her. “It’s fine. I’ll just be here for a while.”

“Why do you have to leave? This house is huge. You might as well move in.” Melissa sounded extremely eager.

Amelie, however, simply pressed her lips together without responding.

Melissa then waved her hand to signal Leila to leave the room. Once Leila was far enough from them, Melissa went over and held Amelie by her hand before sitting her down on the couch.

Amelie wasn’t used to being so intimate with Melissa, but she didn’t protest as she took a seat beside Melissa. Melissa patted Amelie on the back of her hand as she spoke. “Amelie, now that Leo’s in this state, and now that you’ve decided not to leave the country, why don’t you bring Bria home?”

Melissa’s words took Amelie by surprise, and Amelie widened her eyes as she turned to stare at the other woman. In an instant, Melissa shifted her gaze away—she was too afraid to look Amelie in the eyes. “Bria is a child of the Alston Family, after all. She should be close to her ancestors and her roots.”

The reason Melissa fell ill wasn’t entirely due to Leo’s sickness—it was also because she had just found out that all of Leo’s kids weren’t actually his real children. At this point, no one knew if Leo would wake up, and Bria might be Leo’s only real child. Melissa had every reason to be anxious over this matter.

Amelie had an inkling of what was going on in Melissa’s mind when she saw how avoidant Melissa was of her gaze. “Why don’t we wait for a while more?” Amelie suggested. The doctors were still uncertain about Leo’s condition—they first had to find out the reason that Leo was in a coma. Amelie, therefore, still felt rather hopeful about Leo’s condition, and she thought that he might wake up. “Now’s not the best time to bring Bria back. After all, the public thinks that Leo is spending time with his daughter abroad. People might get suspicious if Bria’s the only one who comes back,” Amelie explained.

Melissa seemed to realize something upon hearing Amelie’s words. “Oh, yeah. Right, right.”