But all of a sudden, he felt a sharp pain on his face, which immediately reminded him of what had happened the previous day.

“Alexis!” he called out.

Without waiting for a response, he jumped up from the sofa and rushed downstairs. As he ran down, he thought he could see Alexis sitting at the dining table. After all, she always had breakfast at home.

But to his surprise, when he got to the dining room, he found that there was nobody seated there.

Nova was the only one in the room, cleaning. When she saw Leonel come in, she pursed her lips and said, “Mr. Douglas, Mrs. Douglas went out early this morning.” After saying that, she turned her attention back to her chores.

Not caring that his clothes were wrinkled, Leonel sat down at the table and lit a cigarette. Then, he asked in a hoarse voice, “Did she eat breakfast before she left?” Glancing at the newspaper on the table, Nova muttered, “How would she be in the mood to eat anything after reading the newspaper?” When Leonel heard this, he immediately picked up the paper to take a look at it.

page had a

photo of himself

up on the front page of the newspaper, she had spent

looks like a seductress,” Nova said

some men like this sort of woman?” Leonel took

kept her mouth shut and said

long while, Leonel finally spoke up. “She's

in Anika, why would he spend so much money on her? Did he just feel generous and want to throw his money on a random someone and in this case, Anika? He could have done it for any one of so many reasons, but one thing Nova would never

Leonel went upstairs. He took a

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