Love in Prime Years
Chapter 55 Don’t say his name

She tried to jump off the cliff.

"Amelia."

Lawrence dashed towards and held her into his arm forcibly.

"Let me go, Lawrence. Let me replace Leigh. He says he's cold down there alone, he needs me, I need to replace him!"

"Listen to me, Amelia. I'll let my people replace him. Don't do anything stupid?

"Stupid?"

Amelia smiled mocking. "I'll tell what is stupid. Living without Leigh is stupid!"

She wrenched, she squirmed, but all her efforts were vain. She couldn't get out of Lawrence's embrace, not at all.

"Get off me! Get off me!"

She fought like a beast in a cage. It hurt Lawrence to see her in such pain, he cradled her up. "Amelia, I'm going to let you do anything stupid." "Amelia, I know I owe you this time. But Lillian saved my life, I can't just watch her die."

"I just want you to be fine, we can start over. Amelia..."

He felt the resistance in his arms died suddenly. He thought she finally listened. But then he lowered his head only to replace out that Amelia had passed out. Blood kept oozing from the wound on her forehead and her mouth. It's like the blood was flowing to the end of the time.

"Amelia!"

His heart ached at the scene of the blood. He sprinted to the car holding Amelia. In haste, he even forgot Lillian.

He was planning to take her back to Repulse Bay and let his personal doctor treat her. But Amelia woke up when they reached the bottom of the mountain.

He was afraid that she might act out again. But to his utter surprise, she was as calm as still water.

But it was that calmness that stung Lawrence's heart even more.

"Amelia..."

"Mr. Lawrence, take me to Willow Alley please." She said numbly, as if she were a body with no soul.

"Amelia, Leigh..."

She cut him off. "Mr. Lawrence. For god's sake, don't say Leigh's name anymore. Don't throw dirt on his name."

In the past, he would've broken her neck if Amelia dared talk to him like that. But this time he just kept silent, he knew he deserved the condemnation.

They soon arrived at Willow Alley.

Amelia was like a zombie all the time. It was not until when she opened the door and Lawrence tried to follow her in that she talked.

Her voice was flat, unusually flat. It sounded like the world no longer meant anything to her.

"You may leave now, Mr. Lawrence."

"Amelia..."

She didn't give Lawrence a chance to talk. "I know what you are worrying about, Mr. Lawrence. You worry that I would kill myself. I remember our agreement. The billion you paid, it won't be money down the drain." "I will live, and be your mistress. So, you may leave."

She slammed the door close when she finished.

When the door was shut, she reclined against the door, and slowly, she sagged down to the ground. It was like she was drained out of strength.

Leigh can't be alive.

He's of poor health. There's no way that he could survive falling from a cliff that high.

She could not even replace his body.

She huddled her legs, sobbing dryly.

She wasn't a good mother. Ever since his birth, Leigh had live with her in that dark dungeon. She never gave him a day of good life. But Leigh never complained. Instead, he said she was the best mom in the world, the woman he loved the most. Living everyday in a hell would drive most kids depressed or crazy.

But her Leigh, he smiled, brightened all the darkness and coldness in the world like the sun in winter.

Leigh was different, much different from other kids. He's sensitive, he cared.

He let his mom had the first taste of bread when he was just a year or so.

He's kind-hearted, positive, and brave.

But with all these virtues he had, Leigh was abandoned in the endless darkness by the world.

Life is bitch, she thought. It gave you a ray hope, and then dragged you down to the rock bottom.

Joy filled her when finally had the money for Leigh's operation, she thought life would be great now. But then Leigh got kidnapped. It's either we see the money or you see the body of your son, the kidnapper told her.

So she sold herself to get the money for ransom.

But everything was just a joke that life made for her.

She never got to embrace her Leigh anymore.

She pressed a photo of Leigh against her chest so forcibly as if she was trying to plant it in her, as if it gave her the strength to breathe.

Lawrence sent helicopters to search for Leigh after he got back at Repulse Bay.

His special assistant Edwin brought Lillian back.

The kidnappers didn't get away with their crime. All but the head of them was caught by Edwin's crew and sent to the police.

Amelia still curled up in the corner with Leigh's photo in her hand when Sapphire came to see her.

She might just die here if Sapphire came a few days later.

Finally, Amelia heard news of Leigh the next day morning.