Married To A CEO. Omega
Chapter 84 - Seventy-One

Chapter 84: Chapter Seventy-One

LEO

"Who gave you the permission to talk to my husband without my knowledge?" This is the first question I ask Leon after sitting down at the table in a five-star hotel.

He has invited me for a meal today but I am not willing to give him more than thirty minutes from my schedule.

"I am sorry, I should have asked you about it first." Leon apologizes quietly, "Do you want to eat something? Please order." He pushes the menu card toward me, "I am paying."

"I am fine." However, I bluntly reject him. "You have only thirty minutes to say what you want to say, Leon. I have work to do.

He nods, "I won’t take long. Don’t worry." Leon tenses up a bit before forcing out, "I am sorry."

"For what?" I ask even though I know what he is actually trying to mean.

"For what happened eight years ago." Leon bites out, "I was deceived by Jessie and was too mad to think properly. I shouldn’t have behaved just like I did back then. I should have heard you first. I am really sorry."

"What is the point now?" I ask exhaustedly, "You didn’t believe me when I said the truth. And then for all these years, I had been chasing after you to tell you that I wasn’t at fault but you didn’t even bother to hear me out and just when I stopped doing all this you are now desperate to make things right. Can you tell me why? Could you show me the reason behind all this? I have always thought that even if nobody liked me in that house you and Jules did. Until that incident. You turned your back on me and threw me out of the house. Knowing that I didn’t have anywhere to go and over that I was an omega." I sigh, "Do you really think Leon that this simple apology of yours can fix the days I have spent with those unbearable agonies, memories, and struggles?"

"I know my apology can fix nothing but still, I want to try. With not just by my words but my actions too." I can’t remember Leon looking this agonized and desperate before. He looks so helpless and vulnerable. "I want to make the things that I have been doing wrong."

"Why now?" Leon’s every word is raising my suspiciousness, "All of a sudden why now? Did Jean tell you to do it? Leon, I know you obey him like a dog but I will not tolerate it if you have approached me after all these years just to lick Jean’s shoe. You will have a huge problem if you harbor any ill intention like that." I warn.

Leon’s eyes are round in shock and he immediately denies the accusation. "No! I am not doing any of it because my uncle told me to do it! I would never do something like that!"

"Are you sure about that, Leon?" I ask, a crease appearing between my eyebrows. "The thing you have been doing through the years were all on his words though. Don’t you think so?"

"I know that what I have been doing is all on his word but...now that James is in jail he is acting like a madman. His demands and orders are almost impossible to heed." Leon admits.

I scoff, "So you are a lost dog now, huh?"

"It’s rude to put it that way." He retorts quietly.

"So how do you expect me to put it, Leon?" I ask sarcastically, "You followed Jean’s order for the rest of your life and now you are lost. What more do you expect me to imply here?"

"This is the way I and Jessie were raised, Leo." Leon gains his usual composure, "You were isolated from the moment I can remember. You were always with our grandparents. Mom and Dad couldn’t stand the sight of yours and so you were forced to leave but I was different Leo. I am particularly the gem of their eyes. I had so much responsibility that made me forget who I am. So I am looking forward to a fresh start."

"Fresh start, you say?" I purse my lips, "Why now? Why after all these years?"

"I just...felt like I should. I may be oblivious but I am not blind, Leo." Leon lowers his eyes, "I saw the way you were injured after James assaulted you. I saw how you lost your child... And all of these made me realize that I am not supposed to be doing these. Fighting with you for a silly chair that is worth nothing to me. Fighting for things that happened almost a decade ago and obeying an elder who wants nothing but harm you... After all, you are my younger brother Leo. I might have some unspoken grudge toward you but I am not as cruel to want bad for you or harm you. Believe me, I am trying to change. I have already left the Snow Estate and am leaving alone."

"So you have taken the first step to change yourself." I nod in understanding my heart softening a little. "So what do you plan to do next?"

"I am planning to withdraw from the chairman seat and recommend you for the post," Leon states. "I am going to return your rightful place. I don’t want to hold on to this useless thing anymore. It has to return to its rightful owner, which is you, Leo. It will be my first step to fix the broken in us. I will fix it for sure Leo." He determinedly states.

"Hmm." I nod and stand up, "But I don’t want the chairman post back. Not yet. I want to fulfill my grandma’s wish first and then retrieve what belongs to me. You can have that post until then. I am leaving at your care, Leon." I smile softly. "My thirty minutes are up so I have to go now."

"But you didn’t eat anything at all." Leon stands up too, looking a bit anxious, "At least have something to drink."

"No, I am fine." I shake my head.

"Umm, Leo there is another thing I wanted to talk about, if you don’t mind." Leon is looking even more nervous than before.

"What is it?" I ask, my eyebrows are jumping on my forehead.

"It’s about Warner, your husband." Leon says, after a beat of hesitation, "Are you happy with him?" He sounds genuinely concerned and it makes my smile a little wider.

"I am so happy with him that I could never imagine being this happy with anyone else than him, Leon. I love him" Just remembering Erwin sets the wild disobedient butterflies in my stomach free. They are flipping and flapping their wings and swarming my stomach while heat creeps up to the back of my neck and my earlobes. My eyes glint with emotion and I can think of nothing else other than him. I think I am headed over the heels for Erwin and am standing over the edge, another gentle breeze and I will tip over.

Leon looks at me with amazement in his eyes for a beat then nods, "I understand. Sorry to bother you with such a silly question. I get what you mean." Then he pauses a little, "I am really grateful that you agreed to meet me today."

"It’s fine." I shake my head and spin around on my heels to leave the place. I can feel Leon staring at my back as I make my way to the exit. I stop abruptly and look over my shoulder, "Well, I wouldn’t really mind if you sometimes came over for dinners." Then I walk out of the threshold.

I can see the soft smile tugging at the corner of Leon’s aloof face. It makes me smile too. I feel like a huge burden has been lifted from my chest and after all these years I can finally breathe now. It’s not as suffocating as it used to be.

I bite my bottom lip hard to prevent the smile from spreading across my face and get into the car where is Erwin is already waiting for me.

"Did it go well?" Erwin asks anticipation and amusement are dancing in those silvery gray eyes. His hands gripping the steering wheel so tightly that I am afraid that he is going to break it.

Erwin insisted on coming here with me but he refused to go in with me he said that he would wait for me in the car. So I let him. I can never deny him.

I nod my head, still biting my lip so hard that it has gone a bit redder than usual and it’s almost looking like it is about to bleed.

Erwin sighs in relief, "Thank God." Then looks at me intently, "Are you okay? How do you feel?"

"I am fine," I answer mutely.

There is an indescribable feeling clogging up my chest and making me feel at ease as if to tell me, "You have done more than enough now rest." This feeling is almost making me want to relax.

Erwin just grins in return and rubs my head as if I am a ten-years-old-kid and I achieved something really big. Just then my phone buzzes in my pocket. I pick up the phone.

"Hello?" I ask.

"Leo, Jessie is here." Tina breathes heavily from the other side of the line, anxiety, fear, and dread are evident in her shaky voice.