Standing Before Love (Myra and Sean) novel Chapter 658

After resisting for a while, Leon could not help but laugh out loud. Then, he waved to Heather. “It’s too difficult.” He could not even continue to stare at her and burst out laughing continuously, as if his laughing point had been triggered.

Annoyed by his actions, Heather pointed at him as she asked, “Can you be more serious?” I’m so mad at him that I can’t wait to tear him apart.

He tried to stop himself from laughing, but he was actually quite fearful. All of his laughter was to mask the uneasiness within him. In the past, he always imagined how it would be like if he and Heather were together as a couple. Although his wish was now granted, he felt uneasy.

Even Leon himself thought that he was quite annoying, but he did not have the courage to look into Heather’s eyes as he was feeling guilty. Even though he did not force her, he could not get past his own mental barrier.

“What the hell do you want?” she emphasized helplessly. Leon did not even reply to her, which made her quite troubled.

He took a step back and sat on the couch. “I think it’s too difficult to pretend to be a couple with you.”

Heather pinched her chin and looked at him in confusion. “You were the one who initiated this, yet you are backing away now. Do you think it’s appropriate?”

As she questioned him, he felt slightly embarrassed and awkwardly looked at her. He did not know what to reply to her, and he also felt that he was a failure. However, he felt that he could not maintain the pretense anymore.

“Heather, we don’t have to be serious when we are just pretending.” Leon tried to run away from the problem. Before this, he even thought of slightly taking advantage of her, but this thought had completely disappeared in his mind.

Looking at his cowardice, Heather dramatically sighed. “Who do you think your grandfather is? Do you think he’s someone whom we could easily fool?”

On a coincidental occasion, she looked into his family background. His grandfather, Dave, was a legend who called the shots in Europe. She could not fathom how a legendary character like him had raised a playful and easy-going grandson like Leon.

Heather knew that Leon’s family was exceptionally strict on him. I wonder how he grew up in that environment. He’s considered lucky that his grandfather did not tear him to shreds by now.

Leon merely gave an awkward smile. As soon as he remembered his own grandfather, he immediately lost all confidence and glanced at her with a troubled look. “I guess no matter how good we are at acting, we still can’t hide it from him.”

She rolled her eyes at him and tried to console him. “Don’t be so discouraged. I already told you to treat me as though I’m your actual girlfriend.” After all, they were quite close to begin with, so she believed that they could overcome this difficulty.

Leon merely shook his head in exasperation. “I know who my grandfather is. I’m afraid we aren’t going to pull our tricks off in front of him.” At this point, it was he who could not take it anymore. In fact, he regretted his previous suggestion.

Heather hated people who gave up even before trying. Hence, she responded seriously, “Don’t make me look down on you.” She could only say such words to motivate him at that stage.

Leon pouted with mixed feelings. As the situation became increasingly complicated, he could not continue to be that useless.

Suppressing the uneasiness within him, he said, “Alright. Let’s do it again.”

He was not a decent person to begin with. Since he had pretended that Heather was his current girlfriend, he merely acted in the way that he usually would. After jumping down from the couch, he pulled her into his arms, “Heather, this is my grandfather, Dave.”

As Heather and Leon exchanged glances with each other, she felt that his introduction seemed slightly off to her. Then, she told him about it. “Don’t you think that your introduction is too informal?”

Upon hearing that, Leon scratched the back of his head as he smiled awkwardly. “I seldom talk to him, so…” He truly had no idea how to have a proper conversation with his grandfather at all.

“Is the relationship between you both this bad?” Heather had once tried to ask him about his family, but he passed it off with jokes.

Now, he felt even more awkward. He knew that she was almost being isolated at the Langston Family and his situation was not any better than hers. His grandfather did not even dote on him like how Robert had treated her, so Leon would occasionally envy her.

“In my years growing up, I can count the number of times we spoke with both my hands.” If Dave had not tracked Leon’s location all the way to Bradfort City, Leon planned to continue avoiding him and acted as if he did not have such a grandfather.

Leon really hated his own family and he would sometimes direct his hatred toward Dave. However, after thinking about it from a rational point of view, he realized that Dave had been treating him quite well, so he slowly let go of his hatred toward Dave.

Since young, he had grown up with hatred toward his own family and he had spent a long time convincing himself to overcome it. He even once thought about destroying his own family, but he gave up on the idea in the end. It was mainly because Leon did not have the power to do so and he did not want to work with the enemies of his family. Apart from that, he actually did not hate Dave that much.

“In that case, I bet it’s not because of you that he’s coming all the way to Bradfort City this time around.” Heather confirmed her hypothesis even more firmly, which was another bad news for them.

“I’ve already thought of that. It’s just an excuse for him to visit me this time.” Leon smiled exasperatedly because Dave did not even care about him. After all, he was an illegitimate child, so no one in the family had respected him.

She scooted closer to Leon and looked at him with a soothing expression. She did not imagine that his family was worse than hers. Even though she acted as though she did not mind how her family treated her, she, in fact, cared about it a great deal. Fortunately, she had a grandfather who doted on her a lot. After the comparison, it was obvious that Heather’s situation was better than his since he was a trivial person in his family. When she thought about this, she felt even sorrier for him.