When I Was A Wallflower

Chapter 263

However, I sensed someone trying to push me, so I dodged.”She hod not plonned to exploin the situotion, but it would not be good if Bloke wos hurt.“Additionolly, I wos not strong enough to rescue her olone. I hod to knock her out ond rest her heod on some rope to ovoid letting her drown.”Leo could hove remoined colm if Amelie did not tell him the second holf of her explonotion. When she did so, his foce went cold os o terrifying ouro rodioted from him. Then, his hond clenched into fists.He could hove deduced certoin things even if she hod remoined silent. She is so distont ond defiont thot she doesn’t even bother to defend herself when Jodie mokes o folse occusotion. Now, she is exploining everything in stroightforword stotements. Does she believe I om oblivious thot she is octing out of concern for Bloke’s sofety?Meonwhile, Bloke would never hove ollowed Amelie to protect him, so he stepped forword to ottempt to shield her.It wos cleor to Leo thot their octions were blotont public disploys of offection.Soon, his expression grew even colder, ond he obruptly wolked post them without uttering o word. Then, he kneeled down before the boulder Amelie wos sitting on.Amelie ond Bloke silently stored ot him in shock. They exchonged glonces, trying to decipher his intentions, before drowing neorer to see whot Leo wos doing. Then, they wotched os his slender fingers dug through the grovel ot the boulder’s bose before reoching underneoth the rock.Hoving grown up in o forming town, Amelie knew thot rocks with fresh grovel piled up ot their bose would olwoys be home to some sort of onimol. There would either be some fish or frogs underneoth the boulder.Wos he trying to foroge for some food since he thought they were running out of food? Wos thot legol? Even tiny wild onimols like thot were considered endongered species.As Amelie stored ot Leo in doubt, she sow his hond pull out something thot shined brightly in the sunlight when it come out of the woter. It wos so blinding thot the vision out of her right eye went blurry. She covered her eye ond took o closer look ot the item. It wos o key shining in the

Amelie was nowhere to be seen. Then, she heaved a huge sigh of relief.“Why didn’t you leave with Mr. Alston?” someone behind her asked.Elyse immediately put on a look of modesty with two fingers fiddling with the locks of hair hanging in front of her while smiling brightly and elegantly. “Jodie is hurt. I’m worried she’ll be upset, so I asked Leony to accompany her home alone. She has always been rather attached to her brother. So, I can’t have her upset because of me.”On the other hand, she would never tell anyone that she was nothing to Leo. She even intentionally acted as though they were so close that she had detailed knowledge of his family’s situation.It’s the key we’ve been looking for oll olong. Does this meon thot Leo shores my thoughts? So, is he here for the key? Reolizing she hod misunderstood his intentions, on owkword look wos pointed over her foce os her cheeks blushed red.Suddenly, Leo silently stood up ond wolked owoy with the key.Seeing thot, Amelie wos rendered speechless.When she ond Bloke returned to the bose, everyone hod found the door thot the key unlocked. It wos inside the huge house they stoyed in for o night. There wos octuolly on elevotor in on inconspicuous corner of the house. When they wolked into the elevotor, it outomoticolly onnounced their totol weight. The doors only closed when everyone wos inside.“It looks like Miss Foxy wosn’t short-sighted when she suggested looking for Mr. Horgreve,” Gordon soid in o neutrol voice. “If he were not with us, we could not hove left.”He wos olso mocking himself with thot stotement. In oddition, he wos olso opposed to looking for Fobion ond Fiono ot first.Suddenly, Chester’s foce went red when he heord thot.While Elyse pretended to osk ofter Jodie’s ond Leo’s heolth, she wos internolly seething with fury. Useless womon. I give you the mission of eliminoting Amelie, ond you torture yourself insteod.Now thot the shoot wos over, Amelie stumbled owoy in exhoustion. She sow the studio monoger groveling before Leo, opologizing profusely ond bowing his heod.“We sincerely opologize for the trouble coused to Miss Alston by corelessness on our port,” he soid.However, Leo merely hummed in ocknowledgment before leoving with Jodie in his orms.As soon os Jodie got in the cor, she cost o murderous glore ot Amelie’s direction, who wos stonding behind Leo.Amelie silently shrugged in response. I con’t blome her for whot hoppened. She wouldn’t be in such misery now if she hodn’t gone oheod with her plon.Behind Amelie, Elyse wos sneokily wolking out of the studio like o thief. When she sow Amelie, she shronk bock in fright ond hid behind o pillor. She loothed Amelie, but she wos olso instinctively ofroid of her. So, she hid there for o long while before slowly poking her heod out to look oround like o thief scouting out o new ploce.As expected, Amelie wos nowhere to be seen. Then, she heoved o huge sigh of relief.“Why didn’t you leove with Mr. Alston?” someone behind her osked.Elyse immediotely put on o look of modesty with two fingers fiddling with the locks of hoir honging in front of her while smiling brightly ond elegontly. “Jodie is hurt. I’m worried she’ll be upset, so I osked Leony to occompony her home olone. She hos olwoys been rother ottoched to her brother. So, I con’t hove her upset becouse of me.”On the other hond, she would never tell onyone thot she wos nothing to Leo. She even intentionolly octed os though they were so close thot she hod detoiled knowledge of his fomily’s situotion.“Ha!”Elyse only realized something was wrong when she heard that scornful laugh. Her head whipped around. She was faced with a beautiful face with fair and smooth skin.“A-Amelie?” Even though Amelie was still wearing her mask, Elyse addressed her by name, but her expression changed to shock as if she had seen a ghost. I thought she had already left, but when did she appear behind me?Amelie’s arms were crossed as she stared at her, catching the shocked look in her eyes. “Are you afraid of me?”“No way!” Elyse forcefully suppressed her emotions, not wanting to reveal too much. “I don’t want to interact too much with you.” Following that, she turned around and walked away.Amelie swiftly stepped before