Supreme Mars novel Chapter 207

Meanwhile, Leo was told that Caroline left the house alone.

 

“Nadine, go to the Crown Bar club. Keep her safe.” He huffed.

 

“Yes, sir.” Replied Nadine.

 

During these days, she could tell that Caroline had changed a lot.

 

Crown Bar was located in a remote area, a place where police barely appeared. So there had been the heaven for all kinds of criminals. Caroline would be likely to encounter danger if she went alone.

 

After driving Leo back to Violet Residences, Nadine headed to the club.

 

“I am back.”

 

When Leo pushed the door open, he was surprised to find that Lydia wasn’t at home. Only Marie was here to play with Emilia.

 

“Daddy!” seeing Leo return, Emilia ran away from Marie to rush over to him.

 

Leo held her up and pinched her chubby cute face with a smile, “Where is mommy?”

 

Emilia answered with sweet voice, “Mommy seems to be in a mood. She didn’t even play with me.”

 

Hearing that, Leo paused. Then he turned to look at Marie.

 

Marie rolled her eyes at him, “Leo, did you mess her up again?”

 

“No.” Leo shook his head, looking confused.

 

“But why did she lock herself into the room as soon as she returned? She even skipped the dinner.”

 

“Skipped the dinner?” hearing that, he looked worried. Then he noticed that it was 10:00 PM already.

 

Marie hinted, “Come on, just forget about the nonsense. Hurry to apologize to her.”

 

Touching his own nose, Leo was rendered a bit awkward, wondering if Lydia was still thinking about the question in the daytime—who was the one he was actually picturing in his mind at that time?

 

So Leo got into the kitchen to cook a plate of spaghetti. Then he took it upstairs and gently knocked on the door.

 

But no one answered.

 

He knocked again.

 

Silent still.

 

So he pushed the door to enter, only to find that Lydia was sitting in front of her laptop while typing something.

 

“It’s getting late. You are still working?” Leo put away the spaghetti and smiled.

 

But Lydia responded with silence again.

 

She slightly turned her face to squint at him coldly, having no intention to answer. Then she got back to work again.

 

Leo couldn’t help shivering as he felt like being stared like a rat in the sewer.

 

Leo now was sure that Lydia was still bothered by the question in the daytime. Her mind was rendered messed up while she was woolgathering at home alone.

 

Though facing a cold response, Leo mustered up courage to utter again, “I am going to do the laundry.”

 

But once again, he only got silence as response. Lydia still fixed her eyes on the laptop as if there were no one else in the room.

 

Leo had to leave himself. Then he bumped into Marie and Emilia, who were both eavesdropping at the stairs.

 

“What are you doing here?”

 

Leo stared at them surprisedly.

 

Marie hurried to hold up Emilia and gave out an awkward smile, “I was just showing my concern with your relationship…”

 

“Stop kidding!” Leo huffed with a serious face.

 

 

Marie made a face and continued to play with Emilia.

 

Leo went into the bathroom and put the clothes into washing machine. Then he sat on the toilet to smoke.

 

Actually, he wasn’t a regular smoker. He only smoked when encountering something tricky.

 

However, it was indeed something tricky to cease the anger of Lydia.

 

So he decided to tell the truth.

 

He sighed and went upstairs again. He forced out a smile this time to get ready for a talk with her.

 

But when he opened the door, he saw Lydia sitting and typing still. She didn’t even adjust her posture, next to whom the spaghetti had turned cold.

 

Leo’s smile froze all of a sudden. He felt like being emotional abused.

 

He had been home for more than one and a half hours, during the period of which she didn’t even say a single word to him. For Leo himself, he had never experienced the same before.

 

Leo was rendered panic. He said to her, “It’s over 10:00 PM. Time to sleep.”

 

“Mom, I wanna sleep.”

 

Emilia said with soft voice while rubbing her own eyes.

 

Not until then did Lydia turn off the laptop. Then she took Emilia onto the bed and tucked themselves in, still ignoring Leo with her back on him.

 

Leo let out a bitter smile. Then he got on the bed as well.

 

Before that, little had he realized that Lydia would actually turn to be so tricky to deal with once she got irritated.

 

As time went by, Emilia had fallen asleep. As soon as he closed his eyes, he heard her murmuring, “Aren’t you going to explain?”

 

Leo suddenly opened his eyes. He was surprised to find that Lydia, who was with her back on him at the beginning, had turned around to look at him with a serious face.

 

Her eyes glowed bright even in the dark.

 

Leo suddenly got choked.

 

“Who is she?” asked Lydia.

 

Her voice sounded calm. But it felt like she was struggling to feign it.

 

After staring for quite a while, Leo didn’t answer. Instead, he sounded seemingly excited, “Lydia, are you being jealous?”

 

Hearing that, Lydia was rendered embarrassingly mad, “No! Just tell me!”

 

Leo couldn’t help laughing. But Lydia was getting madder. She found it hard to vent out her bad feelings once she noticed that Leo was actually picturing another woman to fit himself into the role.

 

Though she could manage to hold it back at the beginning, her mind was still gradually overwhelmed with annoyance.

 

It felt strange. From her perspective, it was led by her strong wish to outweigh another lady instead of a sense of jealousy.

 

Though it did feel a bit like jealousy, Lydia, as proud as she had always been, would never admit it.

 

Never!

 

“Tell me or not?” asked Lydia coldly with impatience.

 

“I am afraid you will be mad if I confess.”

 

“I promise I won’t.”

 

“I don’t believe it.”

 

…

 

Lydia was rendered madder while glaring at him.

She hated this seemingly resolute man appeared to be so hesitant.

 

But for Leo, that was what he cherished the most though Lydia herself didn’t notice.

 

“Alright, forget about it if you don’t want to.”

 

Lydia turned around with her back on him again.

 

Leo sighed, “Don’t be mad if I tell you. And don’t ever mention about divorce!”

 

“Okay. Just tell me.”

 

Before Leo could finish, she hurried to interrupt.

 

Hearing her promise, Leo then continued awkwardly, “It was Sharon actually.”

 

Lydia almost passed out. She tried hard to hold back her burning anger, “But she’s Dominic’s fiancee!”

 

“She used to be my first love. Then she fell in love with Dominic.”

 

…

 

Fearing that Lydia would be madder, Leo hurried to explain, “Don’t be mistaken. We were in a pure friendship. When I was in the army, she was the girlfriend of Dominic. But he went missing three years ago…”

 

Leo turned to be gloomy every time he mentioned it.

 

Lydia was rendered surprised when seeing that. She noticed that she did misunderstand his feelings.

 

“We have been fighting together. It was she who made me a skillful doctor. When we knew Dominic MIA that night, she had been crying for three days and nights. Then she fainted.”

 

“I would never believe that Dominic was KIA. So I have been investigating. You know what. She is jealous of you.”

 

“Jealous of me?”

 

Lydia looked a bit weird, “For what?”

 

“For the fact that you are somebody’s wife while she is a widow.” Leo looked sad.

 

Lydia fell into silence when hearing that. Now she finally realized what Leo had been bearing—it was more than a personal matter, but also for the country.

 

After a long silence, Lydia turned around again to look at Emilia, who was in sound sleep. She couldn’t help recalling the old days with mixed feelings hidden in her eyes, “If I hadn’t been pregnant and never given birth to Emilia, do you think we would have lived like this?”

 

“Yes!”

 

Leo answered without hesitation, which went beyond what she expected.

 

Lydia fixed her eyes on him, looking surprised and moved.

 

Leo said seriously, “You saved me regardless of being harmed. I have made up my mind to spend my lifetime to return for what you’ve done. Even if you hadn’t been pregnant, I would still marry you as I have promised!”

 

A drop of tear went down from her eye. She didn’t turn her back on him this time. Instead, she smiled, “Time to sleep.”

 

Leo nodded delightedly. He didn’t close his eyes until Lydia fell asleep.

 

At this moment, his phone suddenly buzzed. It was a call from Nadine.

 

“What’s the matter?” Leo picked it up and asked with low voice.

 

“Caroline may be in danger.”