He nodded, a little distracted.
As we pulled up to the ground floor of his villa, I looked over at him. He looked sad, as if he had something on his mind.
It was a long time before he came to himself, then he looked at me and said, very seriously, “Clara, do you still hate me?”
I was stunned, “What?”
“About Diana’s family, about how I … abused you.” His voice trailed off, and it was not like him at all.
I pressed my lips together and answered solemnly, “Leo, that’s all in the past. Let’s not mention it.”
“So, do you still hate me?”
Seeing him looking at me with a childlike look in his eyes, I couldn’t help being stunned. “It’s all over. In the end, you only threatened me, and did me no real harm. But as for Diana, she’ll probably never be able to let it go.”
People were really complicated. I was afraid of Leo at first, but now I relied on him. I even regarded him as my family member in my heart. In a way, Yara and I were the same kind of people who put their own interests first.
He looked at me for a long time and said thoughtfully, “If you find out later that I’ve done something to hurt you, will you forgive me?”
Seeing him so, I couldn’t help but look at him with wide eyes, “What have you done to ask for my forgiveness?”
He pressed his lips together and said, “Will you forgive me?”
When he didn’t answer my question directly, I could not help but curl my mouth and say, “That depends on how wrong you are. Leo, you know me better than I know myself, and I can’t possibly forgive you without boundaries or principles, can I? So, don’t do anything to hurt me, either now or in the future. We’ll be brother and sister forever, okay?”
He looked at me for a long time and said nothing. He just reached out and pulled me close to him and said in a deep voice, “Well, let’s be brother and sister forever. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have your parents. You have me and Link. We are all your family.”
I nodded, just feeling that he made me feel a little unreal. He seemed to be hiding something very, very deep inside.
But I knew I couldn’t get anything out of it, even if I wanted to.
With a slight sigh, I pulled away from him and said, “Well, it’s getting late. Let’s hurry back!”
…
After I dropped Leo off, I went straight back to the villa.
It’s 10:00 p.m. I didn’t think Olivia would still be at the villa.
She came and went as she pleased, not treating herself as a guest at all.
When I came back, she stopped me in the doorway and said darkly, “Coming home in the middle of the night, you’re just as wild as ever. With Dennis out of the way, you’re a wild horse out of control.”
Olivia was the least challenging rival I’ve ever met. If it wasn’t for Calvin, I didn’t think she’d even be here.
When she saw that I was very pale, she laughed more freely than ever. “Clara, you deserved it, and the boy deserved it, he deserved it in the first place, he should never have been born.”
Yes, I admit that she successfully activated a lot of the negative feelings that I had been repressing.
I raised my hand, but was stopped by her, she sneered, “What? Do you still want to hit me? Am I stupid enough to let you hit me a second time?”
I sneered and looked at her eerily and said calmly, “No, I’m not trying to hit you. A person like you doesn’t deserve me to hit you, really.”
Then I moved closer and closer to her. My eyes fell on the knife not far away. I looked at her and sneered, “I used to think that having someone like you would make my life a little more difficult, but it turns out you're not just a problem. You’re disgusting. In that case, you might as well go to hell!”
Without giving her a chance to contradict me, I snatched the knife and stabbed her without hesitation.
“Clara!” It wasn’t Olivia, who was terrified, and it wasn’t Nanny Daisy, who was slumped on the floor. It was Dennis.
Almost immediately, I froze and the knife went into Olivia’s abdomen.
Almost immediately, a warm rush of water touched my hand. There was a ticking sound on the ground. It was Olivia’s blood.
She stared at me in disbelief, her eyes wide open and she could not utter a word.
Almost immediately, Dennis rushed in, pushed me out of the way and grabbed Olivia as she fell.
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