When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie)

“Thank you.”

He handed the documents to his secretary next to him, and he smiled lightly. He was good-natured and

polite as he thanked his secretary sincerely.

The secretary took the documents with a smile and walked out.

As soon as he reached the door, someone else came in, and his smile froze. Still, he greeted the

unannounced visitor, “Mr. Alston.”

The secretary quickly gave way and bowed his head. The smile on his face had disappeared entirely.

Leo’s face was indifferent, and his expression was blank. He bowed his head slightly to the secretary’s

greeting, and it was barely noticeable.

As he walked by, the secretary felt a gust of cold wind and couldn’t help but shiver.

The secretary was thankful that he was serving someone like Toby, not the icy-cold man in front of him.

Even though this man looked significantly better than Toby, his indifferent aura was enough to scare a

lot of people away.

If Toby was compared to the spring breeze and summer sun, then Leo was the harsh winter that was

negative 30 degrees.

When Toby heard the secretary’s greeting, he looked over immediately. Toby wasn’t surprised to see

Leo as a meaningful smile flashed across his face.

He looked at the secretary with gentle eyes and asked, “Can you pour me two cups of coffee?”

“Yes, sir.” Toby’s gentleness warmed his heart as he nodded. Once he poured two cups of coffee, he

left the room happily.

Leo stood there with his head lowered the whole time. He wasn’t in a hurry to speak, but his face was

gloomy enough to tell there was something on his mind.

Toby picked up a cup of coffee, walked over, and handed it to him. “Why did you come over? Is there

an emergency?”

However, Leo didn’t take the coffee, but his eyes were fixed on Toby’s hands.

Toby didn’t feel awkward and just raised his hand higher, offering the cup of coffee.

In the end, although Leo took the cup, he didn’t give the coffee a sip. Instead, he looked at the man

across from him. “When did you find out Amelie is Foxy?

Toby looked away with a smile. Then, he took a sip of his coffee and said, “I’ve known it for a while.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?”

“There isn’t a need to. You’re divorced, right?” He looked up at Leo, his head slightly tilted.

Toby still had a smile on his face, but it seemed to be carrying a different meaning now.

Leo couldn’t help but think about Toby’s crush on Amelie. He had even expressed his liking for Amelie

several times.

Suddenly, he found it hard to breathe, as if something was constricting his heart.

It was so slippery, making it impossible to grasp, and he gradually felt his head spin.

“Leo, what you should be more concerned about is not when I knew she was Foxy but when she

became Foxy.” Toby’s voice was clear and pleasant, but his words were like knives stabbing into Leo’s

body.

The sudden pain caught him off guard!

The veins on his forehead bulged violently in response!

“Foxy rose to fame seven years ago and suddenly disappeared three years later. But, then, she was

suddenly on the Internet again not too long ago. Don’t you think the timeline is very coincidental with

your marriage?” Toby asked. “Have you ever thought what Amelie had sacrificed just to marry you?”

Toby didn’t want to mention this.

He knew that if he mentioned this, it would only push Leo to Amelie again.

Yet, Toby had constantly been thinking of how she swallowed her pride and allowed herself to be

bullied when she was in the Alston family these past few days. Whenever he thought of what she had

gone through, his heart ached.

She had wings that could bring her straight to the sky, but she was willing to break them for a man…

He felt that if he didn’t bring this to light, no one would know what she had suffered, making his heart

pang.

He felt that her sufferings were unjust.

On the other side, Leo went even more silent than before.

He had constantly lowered his head throughout their conversation, and his eyes were pitch black. No

one could tell what he was thinking.

Toby’s eyes settled on him for a moment as if what he said was no big deal.

He soon regained his composure and decided to push this discussion along.

With that, he continued, “By the way, Leo, I heard that you have an interesting relationship with Elyse’s

twin sister. I want to know, if you find her, will you marry her?”

Only then did Leo look up at him silently.

He noticed that Toby was staring back at him with great interest. After a moment, he parted his lips and

responded with one word, “No.”

“No?” Toby seemed very surprised. “Didn’t you pamper Elyse thinking she was Ellen before?”

“It’s true, but we shouldn’t confuse kindness for affection. Moreover, we haven’t seen each other for ten

years. Our lives have changed. Forcibly being together isn’t good for either of us.”

After he replied curtly, he seemed to have lost interest and turned to leave.

Behind him, Toby was staring at his back; his gentle gaze felt oddly piercing.

“Is it really because you haven’t seen each other for ten years, Leo? Or did Amelie influence you?” He

murmured to himself, slowly tightening his grip on the coffee cup.

…

Amelie had just finished her live stream. So, she greeted Steven and planned to meet the new

partners.

The other party already had a finished manuscript in hand and was preparing to publish it.

She was trying to convince him to release it on his own platform.

There had been a lot of discussion going on, and now the last thing to do now was to edit the

manuscript to match up with their needs.

Amelie kept her head down as she made phone calls to contact the other party until she almost ran into

a car that drove by.

“Sorry!” She took a few steps back, cried out apologetically, and hung up the phone immediately.

The car stopped, and the door opened.

A shiny pair of black leather shoes stepped out of the car.

A pair of slender legs followed right after, which truly displayed just how expensive those shoes could

possibly be.

Amelie couldn’t help but raise her head. It was then that she saw his slender frame and his handsome

but cold face.