When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 216

in check. Couldn’t even sleep, so I… I neglected you.”Despite her attempts at making herself sound like the victim, Leo still said nothing. Melissa looked at him, but he was drinking his coffee and going through his documents, silent as a gargoyle. It felt like she was talking to a wall. Then she saw the ring he was wearing. That’s the ring he bought back when he married Amelie! She looked like she had seen a ghost, and her bag fell. “What is the meaning of this?” She left her bag and darted to her son to hold up his finger. “You still want to be with that woman?”When she sought Amelie out, Melissa believed Amelie was the one hounding her son, but when she saw this ring, her faith was starting to waver.Leo looked at the ring. It was a simple, almost perfunctory ring. He was in a foul mood when he was forced to marry Amelie. Weddings or ceremonies were not on his mind. And he only bought this ring just to go through the motions. He didn’t care about the price or style. The retail assistant also asked him to buy another one, since this one was too simple. In other words, she said the ring was cheap. But he didn’t care. He wanted to use that ring to humiliate Amelie.Yet Amelie wasn’t unhappy. Instead, she grinned like an idiot when she saw the ring. Even when the retail assistants were mocking her due to Leo’s lack of love for her, she didn’t mind. That memory came flooding back, and it pained Leo’s heart. He only wore this ring to tell all the women out there that he was married, so they would back off. But when his mother asked him those questions, he didn’t want to deny them. All he could think of was Amelie. Melissa took his silence as confirmation, and her chest heaved. She wanted to dissuade him but knew he wouldn’t listen to him. What to do? What to do? Oh, wait, here’s an idea. “You might still love her, but she lost her love to you. When I talked to her, she wanted me to tell you to never disturb her again.”Melissa then looked at Leo in silence. Her son had stopped moving, his grip on the coffee cup tightening. Good, that worked. Melissa heaved a sigh of relief. “Leo, we’re a famous family here. You don’t want the public to say you can’t let go of your ex-wife. Besides, Amelie is a useless bum. She’s just playing hard to get so you can get back together with her. So, she can spend our money. We can’t