Chapter 224: Secret Inheritance

"Leo most likely killed Jacob, like that?"

"That's just my guess, but I-"

"Maybe you're right-" said Bryan. Honestly, he couldn't deny that this possibility could happen, considering that he had witnessed Leo's cruelty firsthand.

"That bastard is the type of person who could do something crazy like that. If we know that Lucia was last with Jacob and in the end Lucia was with him, we can be sure that there is a big possibility that he killed Jacob." Bryan continued his words. Hearing that, Pierre and Chris shuddered. They suspected that Leo could do dangerous things like that considering that he had killed his father in the past and was rumored to be an assassin. But they couldn't imagine if that happened and involved Lucia in it.

Meanwhile, in the room, Lucia, who was asleep, suddenly woke up after hearing Bryan's voice from the living room. She also heard Pierre and Chris' voices which made her immediately suspect that the three men were talking about something.

She lifted her head from the pillow, she still felt a little dizzy. Her eyes fell on the ring on her ring finger, the wedding ring that Leo had put on her hand as a sign that they had a sacred bond.

Her tears flowed again even though she tried not to cry by repeatedly inhaling and exhaling. However, the sadness was still very much felt and today she couldn't accept that Leo had just left.

She tried to get out of bed, hesitatingly she tried to open the door. She wasn't sure that she was really ready to tell Pierre, Bryan and Chris about what really happened. She wasn't ready to accept their disappointment again.

On her desk, she saw her phone lying. When she left her apartment a month ago, she left her phone behind, making it difficult for them to chase her.

Her hands were shaking, she don't know when she started hating this thing. While living with Leo, she felt that her life was much better without a phone. She didn't have to receive messages and calls from her mother and older sister constantly asking her for money, or the hospital asking when she would send payment for her father's treatment. She also doesn't need to accept the terror of her crazy ex-fiancé. Yes, she felt her life was much better when she left everything she had except Leo.

Instead of taking her phone, her eyes fell on the pile of books arranged in the corner of the table. At the top of the pile was the birthday present that Leo had given her several months ago, a photo album containing photos of their childhood together.

Her chest felt very tight as if she had swallowed a very large stone, making it difficult for her to breathe. She held back her feelings just to look back at their childhood photos which she hoped would make her longing for Leo quenched.

As she opened page after page, she could see Leo's cheerful smile and laughter who used to always follow her wherever she went and whatever she did. She missed little Leo, she missed those days.

Her tears flowed harder and harder and she sobbed. When she got to the last page, she found a letter taped to it and strangely she never knew that there was a letter in the photo album.

She tried to remember when and how this letter came to be in the photo album and as far as she could remember, she didn't have time to open all the photo pages on her birthday even though Leo asked her to look until the end.

"You don't want to see it to the end?"

"I'll take a look later."

"Is that so? Alright."

Her heart beating fast remember that moment again, opened the letter to see what Leo had written inside. Her eyes widened, it was not an ordinary letter but an inheritance letter.

"No way." Her voice trembled, tears dripping down the letter in her hand. It was a copy of a statement stating that Lucia was the sole heir of all the assets he owned if he died.

Lucia didn't know what Leo was really thinking and what the true meaning of this letter was. When she tried to find out, she found a handwriting on the back cover of the photo album.

'You don't need to worry, everything I gave you was a treasure that I got in a good way. I won't make an angel like you have to go to hell with a devil like me. Pay off all your debts and the burdens you bear. After that, buy a house that you can live in comfortably. Whatever happens in the future, believe me you will always be the love of my life.'

"Leo? Oh God-"

Lucia sobbed, she couldn't hold back her sadness. The sound of her crying made Pierre, Chris and Bryan startled and they rushed to meet her in the room.

They saw Lucia crying like a little girl who had lost someone she loved most.

"Lucia, what happened?"

"Bryan, I beg you! I beg you to look for Leo, look for him for me!"

"What are you saying?"

Her phone which was lying on the table rang, which made them immediately focus on the phone. Lucia hurriedly took her cell phone and hoped it was a call from Leo. Realizing that the incoming phone number was an anonymous number made her really hope that Leo had called her just to say that he wanted to get back to her.

"Hello? Leo? You-"

"It's me, Samantha."

"S-Samantha?"

"This is Lucia, right?"

"Yeah, what's wrong? Is Leo with you?" She said holding back her anger. She didn't know how Samantha got her phone number.

"Unfortunately he's not with me."

"What do you really want to say?" She was starting to get impatient and whatever it was, she was sure that Samantha just wanted to play with her after feeling that she had won because Leo came back to her.

"I know that I promised Leo to keep this a secret from you and your friends. But, I feel like I'm not ready for that. Leo, he's in danger and there's a big possibility he won't survive."

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