Recalling all the memory
"I was planning to go city-"Amelia looked at Andrea, realizing that Andrea was not listening to her "where are you lost, Andrea?"
Amelia and Andrea were chatting in the room but Andrea was silent the whole time, lost in thought staring at vase which was on the table.
Recalling all the memories, Andrea looks at her mother, "hmm, nothing mom... I was just thinking how my life changed... within a year"
"Andrea, everything is going to be okay," Amelia caressing her cheek.
"Uh-huh, I will look for Leo, it's getting late we should go back home now," she decided that she'd have to swallow her pride this once and go to find Leo and tell him to take them home. She knew he would be in the study with Her Highness. So, she headed directly towards the study room.
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In the study, the atmosphere was extremely tense. Her Highness was very worried about Leo and Andrea's relationship.
"Leo, I think it's time to tell Andrea the truth." Her Highness said to Leo.
"Her highness, do you think I haven't thought of it. Every day I try to tell her everything, but..."Leo said.
"Then, what's stopping you, Leo," Her highness asked.
"Her Highness, you know well that how stubborn she is. She won't believe it if I tell her the truth. Even if I tell her that it is not my fault and I did nothing to her Romeo. She is not going to believe in me, in her eyes the only person who speaks truth is her Romeo. I just wish I had some sort of proof of my innocence then maybe, Andrea and I can move on in our lives... happily!!!" Leo replied in a hope to find something which can prove his innocence.
Her Highness opened her drawer and took out Becca's SD card and handed it over to Leo. "Show this clip which Becca recorded to Andrea, she will see herself that you didn't intentionally push Damien off the cliff, what happened was just an unfortunate accident."
"I don't think that will work, Becca had recorded it from a distance, therefore; the audio on it is inaudible. To Andrea, it will look like, I tried to offer money to Damien and when he didn't take it then I beat him up the poor, innocent Damien !!! But in actual it was totally opposite..."
After saying that, Leo then started telling Her highness the actual story.
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Damien was standing on the cliffside which was around a hundred meter high. He was checking his watch, again and again, anxiously waiting for someone.
Then he saw a black Bugatti coming towards him and two cars following it. The Bugatti stopped just footsteps away from him which resulted in Damien taking a step back to save himself.
Leo gets off from his Bugatti with a briefcase in his hand and walked towards Damien and eight men get off from the other two cars and stand behind Leo.
After seeing Leo, Damien smirked. "Leo Smith, right on time, I see you bring the things I told you," Damien gesturing towards the briefcase.
"Yep, one billion dollars as you asked" Leo threw the briefcase to Damien.
Damien caught the briefcase. He opened the briefcase and looks inside it. When he sees the money, an evil smile appeared on his face.
"You know Leo Smith, I asked for this money just half an hour ago and in that short time, you arranged it." Damien threw the briefcase back to Leo. Leo caught the briefcase and look at Damien in confusion.
"You arranged this money in no time, that means when I marry Andrea I'll have way more than this, I'm not an idiot who let go the lavish life for few millions," Damien added, his eyes were shining with greed.
By looking at the expression on Damien's face Leo's blood was boiling with anger. He grabbed onto Damien's collar, "you said that if I give you the money you'll get out of Andrea's life."
"Well, it looks like I changed my mind. You see Leo, Andrea is my ticket to the pots of gold at the end of the rainbow!!" he removes Leo's hands from his collar.
Leo move forward and gave him a hard punch on Damien's face resulting in a split of his lips, "You! stay away from her!! Do you Hear Me? Stay away from her!!"
"Nice, what a love!", Damien says mockingly while wiping the blood from his lip. "You love Andrea..no..no.. sorry, you love Princess Andrea..and she loves me and I love her money."
Damien grin evilly and he sees Leo trembling with anger and his hands were curled into fists. To further aggravate Leo's fury, he starts again,
"Leo Smith, why are you getting so mad, okay... I'll make a plan where we all can win. Andrea will marry the man she loves," he points his fingers towards himself, then he added "so she will win. I'll get married into the royal family of City D, then I will win. And for you, Leo Smith...hmmm..." he thought for some time then said,
"oh yeah, I'll record my first night with Andrea... I'm sure you always wondered how she looks naked, I'll fulfill that wish of yours, so, you will also win!"
"Shut up you b******" Leo punched him on the stomach "just shut up."
Leo's punch was so hard that he coughed out blood. Damien was trying to regain his energy, wanted to fight back with Leo but before he could do that, Leo punches him again, "stay away from Andrea, stay away from her!!! " he then kicks Damien in the stomach, it happened to fast that Damien didn't see the kick. He didn't see it coming and fell on the edges of the cliff.
His gaze lifted down the cliff. He saw the sheer drop with trees and rocks on either side and a river at the bottom with the stones around it. He tried to stand up. They were on the highest edge of the cliff one more punch from Leo and he could fall from there.
Damien wanted to save himself from falling, he thought to punch Leo and run away from there. He tightens his fist, although he had no energy to punch him hard he didn't want to die. Damien swung a punch on Leo, he applied his all power to punch Leo. But Leo bent backward and felt his knuckles swish past his nose.
While trying to punch Leo, Damien forgot that he was on the edges of the cliff. He loses his balance and fell off the cliff.
Leo moved forward to help him, but it was too late, Damien's voice echoed "leo...-".
Leo saw him falling through the air and then...
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The conversation between Leo and Her Highness was not over, but Andrea had heard enough; in fact, more than enough.
Although Her Highness wanted Andrea to know the truth, she wouldn't want her granddaughter to find out about this manner.
After hearing everything Andrea was in a state of shock still trying to process what she just heard. She walked to the room that was once hers. She sat on the bed lifelessly. She had no clue what to do. Should she confront Her Highness and Leo? should she run away from here; should she cry? should she forgive, forget, and move on? or should she be quiet and let this matter remain unbeknownst for now?