The servant appeared slightly anxious as she relayed the news to Alexis.

Alexis had anticipated this.

She tenderly caressed Cordelia’s head, offering silent solace to ease her disappointment.

Cordelia lifted her gaze, her young face clouded with disappointment.

“Daddy, Daddy…” she called out.

Holding her in his arms, Alexis comforted her in a soft voice, “He’ll come to visit you soon.

However, days passed, and Cordelia didn’t catch a glimpse of Leonel.

Alexis, too, found herself without sight of him.

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Two weeks later, a servant from Leonel’s residence called Alexis in a distraught tone.

“Miss Fowler, please come quickly.

Mr.

been

Dr.

is unavailable, and Miss Rivera is away on a

to stop, and he

quietly, “I’m

time Alexis arrived at the villa, an

her with urgency, saying,

Douglas shouldn’t be drinking.

pain in his

had no choice but

the only one who can talk him

Alexis smiled helplessly.

comforting the servant briefly,

bedroom, the light was

the room, Alexis noticed the room littered with red wine

clad in a white bathrobe, lounged against the bed’s headboard, puffing on a

bedside ashtray overflowed with cigarette butts, alongside

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