Saying so, Marie somehow felt her heartbeat quicken, and her face was flushed and burned with shame.
Although she knew that she was doing something despicable, she still could not help but do so.
Without noticing the guilty conscience inside of her sister, Lydia smiled and sad, “You’re already old enough to think about your lifetime event, my dear. But what you need to keep in mind is that you should be careful in finding yourself the right one, and…”
“I know, I know. I can take care of myself, sis.” Holding the rose bouquet in her arms, Marie ran out of the office and said in haste, “I’m going back home now!”
Casting a weird look at her little sister, Lydia chose to forget about the awkwardness inside of Marie and continued to work.
A while later, the door was opened again. Leo stepped inside and asked, “Have you finished your work?”
With her head up, Lydia looked at Leo with a complicated expression in her eyes. Soon later, she responded, “Almost.”
“Let’s go and pick Emilia up after then.”
Lydia nodded and answered, “OK.”
She then continued her work. As for Leo, he then chose to sit aside and await his wife.
For Leo and Lydia, one day without each other was like more than a century long year.
As for Lydia, she was so undemonstrative that she never revealed the secretive feelings inside her easily, which resulted in that the couple was really simple in the way getting along with each other.
However, the two somehow appeared to enjoy in such a pattern in which they got on with each other.
Indeed, sometimes, it was right to say that tacit affinity was better than verbal confiding.
“So,” Suddenly, something seemed to occur to Leo, and forced him to speak out, “how’s about the rose bouquet I gave you?”
He then looked around, but the rose bouquet was not here inside the office.”
“Rose bouquet? What are you talking about?” With a confused look on her face, Lydia asked wonderingly.
“The rose bouquet that I asked Lydia to pass on to you, obviously.”
Silently, Lydia reconsidered what Marie had said to her previously, and soon she had figured out something between the lines of her sayings.
A while later, she then looked away and said, “Oh, of course, I have asked Marie to take it back home. It’s quite inappropriate to keep such a huge rose bouquet here in the office.”
“Yeah, it sounds fair.” Leo offered a thin smile and chose to not to inquire any further.
Finishing her work, Lydia turned off her computer and headed to Kaiser Kindergarten together with Leo.
“Daddy!”
Seeing the face of her father, Emilia jumped into his embrace excitedly.
Holding his daughter in his arms, Leo said, “Daddy is here, and will never leave you behind anymore.”
Looking at Leo with her tearful eyes, Lydia said to Leo dearly, “Thank you, darling. You must have led a tough time for the past half month.”
Leo shook his head and answered, “I’m willing to do anything to keep you and Emilia safe.’
Then, the three headed back to their home, the Violet Residences.
Hearing the sound of the car outside the house, Marie could feel that her heart was beating frantically.
In order to calm herself down, she then rushed into the bathroom and refreshed herself with cold water.
“How could you ever do this, you stupid fool, Marie! It’s your brother-in-law, god damn it!”
She looked into the mirror and reproached herself, “What a moron you are! You’re hurting your own sister!”
“But I just can’t control myself, Jesus Christ…” She then whispered dolefully.
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