He couldn't tell her anything, since whenever he tried to contact Leila, his mother was monitoring even the phone, and she would send the video out, which would only make the situation worse.
He couldn't allow Leila to be in the same situation as Macey, since that would drive Leila as well as himself up the wall.
The voice message sent by Arthur made him hear Leila's sad singing, and the song "Too Wronged" made his heart sore that he almost suffocated.
"Vincent, I brought you food!" Pippa's voice sounded at the door of the president's office, with a hint of expectation, a hint of excitement, and a hint of tension.
Vincent's falcon-like gaze condensed and precipitated a shock of coldness, as it swept towards her.
"Vincent, hurry up and eat!" Her cherry red lips curled up, there was a little bit of invisible tenderness in her tearful smile. Pippa tried hard to make herself look calmer, but she couldn't suppress the excitement of marrying Vincent.
Various complex emotions flashed across Vincent's cold face. Looking at Pippa who was still entangling him like this, there was a cold flash in the deep black eyes.
Standing up, he staggered, because he had been sitting for too long, and his legs and feet were numb. Vincent had never felt such a cold. It seemed that he was frozen including his blood. He was forced to this point by his own mother. This was the most painful part of being her son.
"Vincent?" Looking at Vincent walking outside with a cold expression, Pippa quickly turned around and followed him, grabbing Vincent's arm anxiously.
Vincent turned around and saw Pippa's hand, his eyes suddenly drenched, and he said coldly, "Let go of me!"
"Vincent, you need to eat!" Pippa said anxiously. "You haven't eaten anything since noon until now. How can you do this to yourself? Your body won't be able to handle it!"
"Let go!" It was still the two words of indifference, revealing the icy cold, the eyes shot at her like sharp swords, making Pippa not knowing what to do. After a long time, she said, "Mom, Mom said that if you don't listen to me, she will send it out!"
His eyes were tight again, Vincent's big hand was clenched on his side, and the sadness fell deeply into his black pupils. She would really do anything.
Why did his heart hurt like this, it was torn bit by bit. Bloody was his broken soul, and he was unable to piece it together again. All these years, why? Was his mother really revenging his father?
His heart fell into the boundless darkness. Vincent felt the pain for the first time, losing her love, losing a close relative, while his mother, the only blood relative he had, treated him this way.
What scruples did he have? He couldn't allow anyone to hurt Leila, no. As if making up his mind, Vincent exuded a dark breath, and returned to his executive chair.
Pippa was taken aback. What happened to Vincent? Why did she find Vincent a little darker just now, as if he was an emissary back from hell?
After the light passed by on him, Vincent's black eyes were silent without any emotion.
Pippa opened the food box, Vincent didn't look at it nor eat it.
"Pippa, we have known each other for many years." Vincent lit a cigarette, his tone was low and tense. Why did the elegant, well-known and gentle Pippa become like this?
"What do you want to say?" Pippa raised her eyes and looked at Vincent. The light shone on his face, but it couldn't dissolve the indifference on his face at all. Instead, it outlined a circle of dark color, making the pair of eagle-like black eyes stand out. They were sharper and more compelling, dark, like a boundless abyss, which seemed to draw all the darkness into it.
No wonder that Pippa was so obsessed with Vincent, because he really had a poppy-like temperament. This man was cold and noble, introverted and quiet. He was arrogant and not easy to get close to, but he had the aura of a king that made people surrender. Especially at this moment, he seemed to emit a dark light, while you knew the danger, but it was like a poppy, immersing people in it.
"Do you know me?" Vincent raised an eyebrow.
"I..." Pippa paused and whispered, "Of course I know you, I know you better than Leila, and I can help you in your career better than Leila. You are kind and passionate-"
"You may not know that if you really irritate me, I will be ruthless and cruel!" Interrupting her coldly, Vincent took a deep breath of his cigarette, looking at Pippa's shocked face, Vincent said indifferently, "You will not be happy with me!"
"I don't care, I just need to be by your side!" Pippa said anxiously. "As long as I can see you, I can feel happy!"
"You are so lost!" With a cold sentence, Vincent sarcastically smiled, and his eyes flickered. All those who owed him, he would ask them to pay back, one by one.
Standing up abruptly, Vincent walked out.
"Vincent, where are you going?"
"To see her!" Vincent glanced at Pippa coldly, then walked out.
"I will go back with you!"
"Go back by yourself, don't mess up my car!" Vincent said coldly.
Pippa was as if hit by a sword. "You, do you think I am dirty?"
"Are you clean? You don't think I will want a woman who has given birth to someone else's child?" Suddenly he laughed coldly, the long laughter revealed his indifferent sarcasm, and he strode towards the elevator. He said the words that he was once afraid might hurt Pippa, since in this moment, he didn't care whether he was vicious or not. In the end, he would not compromise.
When Leila and Arthur walked into the room together, Renee was still singing, Miyamoto was smoking a cigarette, his eyes fell on Renee, or on the video on the screen.
For a moment, Leila felt a little weird.
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the writing is quite childish, but maybe it's just the translations...