She knew that he was bound to call any time soon. She had already seen and ignored Emerald's texts asking where she was and if something had happened.
"I'm so sorry but I don't think I can make the dinner anymore. Leo fell sick all of a sudden and I had to stay back to take care of him," she lied with a smirk on her face and just then, the supposedly 'sick' Leonardo, her husband decided to make an appearance.
"Who's sick?" the tall and handsome Italian doctor asked as he walked into the kitchen to find his wife when he had overheard her saying someone was sick.
In panic of her lie being discovered by her overly inquisitive brother, her eyes widened as she hurriedly turned down the heat from the cooker before she made her way to her husband and held his lips with her fingers while slightly shaking her head. Leo could only raise his eyebrows in surprise at her actions.