Nothing Matters, except YOU & Me novel Chapter 682

In the car on the way home, the silence left Leon swallowing his words multiple times. Heather’s expression was such that he dared not address her even though he could never have predicted how things would progress.

“Send me back to the Langston Residence,” she told him. She didn’t wish to pour all of her frustrations on him because after all, he couldn’t entirely be blamed for the situation.

Only because she spoke up first did he dare answer her. In the end, Leon worriedly told her, “All of this was my fault, Heather. I’ll fix it. Don’t take my grandpa’s words to heart.”

He wanted to comfort her even though the empty words of reassurance made him feel guilty; after all, not everyone could change his grandfather’s mind.

Seeing through him right away, she shot him a cold glance. “How are you going to fix it? You have no strength to oppose your grandfather’s might.” Right now, they were caught between a rock and a hard place.

“The matter of our engagement concerns only us. It is no one else’s business.” He was well-aware of his rights even though he knew what his grandfather was capable of.

Right now, Heather’s head was pounding so hard that she felt like it was about to explode. “Whatever took place in the study wasn’t a discusison, Leon. Haven’t you understood him by now?” Given that the situation had progressed to such a point, there was no use saying anything else.

“Don’t worry about it, Heather. I have a way to fix things,” Leon repeated calmly, but his confident demeanor only made her more worried.

“How are you going to fix it? You can’t do anything stupid!” Heather told him trepidatiously. Knowing his temper, she was afraid he would do something to sabotage himself.

“Don’t worry about me. I only regret forcing you to help me,” he said apologetically. If he knew how things would turn out, he would never have dragged her into this mess with him.

“Don’t apologize to me. It’s not your fault. If anything, it’s my fault.” Right now, she didn’t want to hear his apologies. His behavior was making her feel uneasily like he had something up his sleeve.

“Let’s drop it,” he finally told her, much to her surprise. “I want to talk about something lighter.”

Cautiously, Heather studied him, but they were still within the dim interior of the car and she couldn’t tell what he was thinking. All of the sudden, she had the impression that she was growing further and further away from him.

“Promise me not to do anything stupid,” she enunciated clearly. It wasn’t a request—it was a plea.

Finally, he turned and gave her an oddly playful smile.

“I care too much about myself to do anything stupid, Heather,” he answered carelessly, which only made her even more nervous.

The worry on her face was so obvious that he couldn’t help laughing, simply because she was too adorable when she looked like that.

Leon loved it when Heather worried about him, since it let him know that he held a certain place in her heart. Fervently, he wished he could stop time and take a picture of this moment so that he could preserve it. There was nothing he wanted more than to be by her side for just a little while longer.

From how things looked right now, he no longer had any reason to stay by her side. Suddenly, he felt a little sad, but some things were decided, and he could not look back.

“You’re acting very weirdly and it’s scaring me, Leon,” she told him frankly. No matter what he said, she was not at ease with his behavior. For some reason, she just felt like he was not acting like he usually did.

“Do I turn left or right at the next junction, Heather?” he asked, seemingly in his own world and not registering her concern for him.

“Right,” she answered definitively.

“Thank you,” he answered with a slight smile, but she preferred it when he was grinning broadly or hopping mad with rage, and not when he was like this.

“Have you gone mad? Why are you thanking me?” she asked him, pained. She had no idea how to describe what she was feeling right now.

There was one thing she was afraid of, which was that he would one day put away his frivolous attitude. Having heard rumors about him, she knew what he was like in the past.

After having spent so long with him, she found that she was increasingly becoming unable to tell which one was the true Leon—the frivolous one or the one from before she met him.

And now, she felt like he was slowly reverting to his character from years before. When she thought back to the first time they met, she realized that they had heard of each other’s deeds long before they knew each other.