When I Was A Wallflower

However, Leo still felt that he was utterly disgusting and continued to scrub his body endlessly.

In recent years, he had gotten a weird condition. Whenever he thought about Amelie, he felt like he had done something sacrilegious.

This feeling was even stronger, especially after seeing her. He felt filthier than if he had just crawled through a mud puddle, but Amelie was uncorrupted like an angel.

He needed to clean himself thoroughly so that he could be cleaner.

Only when he had scrubbed every inch of his body did he walk out of the bathroom in pajamas, his hair still wet.

"Leo," Chandler greeted him brightly. "You took a long time in the shower. Mrs. Alston thought something happened to you."

Leo was still wet from the shower and merely glanced coldly at him with his lips in a tight line.

Chandler was clearly used to his cold attitude and didn't take it to heart as he continued lightly, "You didn't eat today at the children's party. I asked the kitchen to make something for you. So, let's head down."

Then, he turned around to leave. "I'll get it served. Don't forget to come down."

"My mom doesn't know what happened to me. But you don't?" Just when Chandler reached the door, Leo's icy voice sounded across the hall.

He paused in his tracks, and his facial expression froze momentarily.

However, when he turned around, it was filled with innocence. "What are you talking about, Leo? I don't understand."

Leo didn't reply and brushed past him as he went downstairs.

…

Finally, the vog had dissipated. Amelie couldn't wait any longer and bought the tickets as soon as it was available.

Toby knew that she wanted to return and came to send her off.

"That country is so far away, and you don't have family there. Do you really not plan on coming back?" He couldn't help but ask as they walked toward the airport lounge.

Amelie, with her huge luggage bag in tow, just smiled lightly. "That's actually a good thing. We can have some peace and quiet without all the trivial matters messing things up."

"You're self-sufficient and don't need someone else to take care of you."

smiled in

daze for a moment as he looked at her smile.

he still regarded her as his muse. Even so, he dared not tell her about his feelings,

met, he did have some thoughts about her. Nevertheless, after he spent time with her these few days, he dropped those thoughts since he

genuinely fortunate that he

sighed inwardly while he handed over the local specialty product to her. "This is for Master. Please pass it to him."

reject his request since this was

so they sat outside the

came running from afar with a wheeze.

a box that was wrapped tightly. "Leo bought this for you. I think he was too shy to give it to you. So, it's been on the study table all this while."

looked at the box that someone had

food." Chandler saw her hesitation and rushed

father. Bria would be

okay. There's no need for

and Leo are divorced, you can still be friends, right? Besides,

still didn't speak and only looked at the box with a meaningful

you don't want this. I won't force the matter, but

walked away, leaving Amelie there with her pursed

an unknown glint to them. "Did

Some things were better left unsaid. Frankly, if it were indeed from Leo,

never disturbed them. Why

seems to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. You

So, things didn't need to be explicitly discussed.

she didn't give Toby a

so hard to

…

returned home, Blake came

had passed and he was now 26, he didn't look old at all. On the contrary, he still looked like

in his eyes when he gazed at

local specialty product to her.

tenderness in his eyes despite him never exposing his feelings for Amelie to the light. She even roasted Blake behind

noticed the tenderness in his eyes despite him never exposing his feelings for Amelie to the light. She even roasted Blake behind his back to Amelie, "I bet Blakey really wants

to stop her from