The night screen had hung down, and the street was lit by the street lights.
Leo stood by the road together with Lydia, who was holding Emilia’s hand.
With the traffic light turned red and cars passing by, the two were separated by the road, looking at each other in distance.
For Leo, he saw the color of flickering crimson shinning in Lydia’s eyes, and for Lydia, she was moved by his pitch-back eyes of tranquility and firmness.
As time went by, the red light turned green, and Leo strode towards his wife and daughter at a steady pace.
In a blink, he soon crossed the road and came to the front of Lydia.
With his head down, he looked at the complicated look on her wife’s delicate face — her eyes were bloodshot, and her cheeks were streaked by tears.
Slowly, Leo raised his hand, and wiped off the tears on her face gently.
“What did he say?” With her head up, Lydia looked at Leo seriously and asked.
“He said we were welcomed to pay a visit to Valenham.” Leo smiled.
Staring at Leo with a serious expression on her face, she said, “This is my family. They don’t allow me to marry you, and disdain the existence of our daughter. You will die at the end if you marry me.”
Leo shook his head, and said tenderly, “I’m not afraid of them.”
Marie didn’t tell him everything at that time — he had never expected that Lydia was one of the members of loyal families in Country YD, and that they would ever disdain the existence of a five-year-old little girl.
“But I’m afraid of them.” As a stream of tears shed from her eyes, she covered her face and cried out to Leo hysterically, “Do you have any idea about how terrified I was when I knew I was pregnant? I was scared not because I was not financially strong enough to raise her up, but because I feared that my family would know about that! They would cut her throat and kill her without mercy! Oh, god ... ”
Knowing nothing about what happened, Emilia burst into tears as well when she saw her mom was crying in pain.
“I’m here, Mammy! Please don’t cry!” Embracing her mom’s thigh, Emilia cried out loudly.
Lydia held her daughter in her arms closely, and said with grievance to Leo, “For five years, I have been taking our daughter from place to place to keep her away from my family. I have lost you once, and I don’t want to lose my daughter too!”
Looking at the crying face of Lydia, Leo fell silent for a long while.
Those passersby were all looking at the three with strange eyes.
Suddenly, Leo straightened his back and said firmly, “In the name of the commander, I shall never let anyone hurt my wife and my daughter anymore! No one shall ever split us up again, and if there is anyone who dare to do so, I will make him pay no matter what!”
However, Lydia still shook her head and sobbed, “You still have no ideas about who you are fighting against …”
Although she, as the CEO of L group, was believed to be worth billions of dollars, she could only be counted as a nobody in the face of loyal families in Country YD.
As for her family, it would be only a matter of time for them to devastate L group. The reason why they didn’t chose to do so was merely because she was the daughter of that man.
However, if the man lost his patience as well, everything would then be over.
Now, they had already located where Leo was, and if she was not going to divorce Leo, they would definitely resort to action.
The call from Terry was exactly their sign.
“Listen, Leo, could you please leave us for a period of time?” Looking at Leo with red eyes, Lydia asked in pain.
With his pupils constricted, Leo could feel that her words were drilling into his heart and making him hurt.
“Don’t be worry, I’m not divorcing you. We need to keep away from each other temporarily to get over this hard time, only by which we can protect our daughter Emilia!”
Although anger was bubbling over inside of him, he soon calmed himself down when he saw the tearing face of Lydia.
He took a deep breath, and then offered a thin smile, “OK, I understand.”
No sooner had he finished his words than he turned around and left with his back straightened — he was a man of indomitable spirit.
“Daddy? Where are you going? Daddy?” Looking at the back of her father, Emilia was conspicuously fazed, and became even more tearful.
Lydia stopped her from chasing after Leo by holding her in arms close with strength.
“Daddy, I want Daddy! You drove daddy away, Mammy! I hate you!” Tearing, Emilia was trying her best to struggle out of Lydia’s embrace to catch up with his dad.
“I’m sorry, Emilia. I’m sorry…” Lydia muttered with a quivering voice, scooping Emilia up and getting into her car.
Walking a few steps, Leo couldn’t help himself and looked backwards, finding that Lydia and Emilia had already gone.
Sighing, he then picked up his phone and dialed a number, “Nadine.”
“My lord.”
Stunned, Nadine could tell from the tone of her master that something was not right.
With a resolute expression on his face, Leo said, “I want all the information about the Hendersons, one of the loyal families in Country YD!”
“Yes, sir.” Without asking extra questions, Nadine kept that the name in mind. However, she didn’t hang up the call.
“What’s wrong, Nadine?”
Comments
The readers' comments on the novel: Supreme Mars