When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 11

think about telling Leo the truth. It was just that every time she wanted to speak to him, he turned and left, giving Amelie no chance to tell him anything at all. Then, as time went by, she felt that there was indeed no point in telling him anything at all. … Leo came to Toby’s house late at night. Toby’s elder sister just gave birth to a daughter, and today was the day they threw a baby shower for the newborn. Leo leaned against the sofa as he saw Toby’s brother-in-law, Jimmy Goldstein, bustling around the living room while holding the baby girl in his arms. He didn’t mind the baby getting his expensive suit stained as he clumsily changed the baby’s diaper. This scene made Leo suddenly think of his daughter, Bria. As far as I recall, it seems that I have never changed her diaper. My heart was only full of anger and hatred back then, considering how Amelie forced me to marry her. Later, the news of her pregnancy aggravated my humiliation and anger, making me more willing to spend time at work, which caused me to neglect Bria. Thinking of that, he asked Toby in a muffled voice, “Did I fail miserably as a father?” Toby immediately stopped drinking and looked at him straight in the eye. “You failed miserably as a husband too.” Leo was taken aback for a while. The next moment, he retorted hotly, “I never asked to be her husband!” Leo hated the despicable means Amelie used against him in order to force him to marry her. Although Toby agreed with Leo, he merely nodded and continued, “Indeed, you never asked to be her husband. But you will help a stranger when they are in trouble, won’t you? Back then, she bled profusely while giving birth to Bria. Not to mention, Bria faced complications right after her birth. Because of this, Amelie barely escaped death’s clutches. When I saw her, she held Bria desperately, even though she was still pallid and sickly. Despite that, she kept begging the doctor to take her blood and save Bria. The doctor refused, so she continued begging to the point that she injured herself.” “What? Such a thing happened… before?” Leo looked at Toby in disbelief. “Yeah. Since Bria suffered from a blood infection, she required an immediate blood transfusion. Yet, the situation was made even more challenging because her blood type was Rh-negative. Unfortunately, the hospital had no such blood in its blood bank then, so they had