When I Was a Wallflower (Leo and Amelie)

A young face entered her vision, and her brows furrowed as she racked her brains because she didn’t

remember speaking to him before despite finding the face a little familiar.

“Don’t you know who I am, Amelie?”

A smile appeared on his face, and he looked like a kind little lamb.

“We’ve met before, actually, but that was two years ago.”

As Amelie had a good memory, some vague images popped into her mind after his reminder.She had

indeed seen him before, but it was only once.

Back then, he gave her a similar smile.

Still, although he seemed friendly enough, he made her feel uneasy.

“I actually have another identity.That is, Leo’s adopted brother” the man said.

He had a pair of glasses across the bridge of his nose and seemed like a nerdy guy at first glance.

“Since you’re my sister-in-law, just call me Chandler, then.”

When he mentioned that, it occurred to Amelie that the Alstons did have an adopted son.

He was actually an orphan that Leo’s father, Warren, had been sponsoring until he enrolled in a school

close nearby.

Due to his circumstances, Warren eventually decided to just let him move into their house.

After that, Warren was involved in a car accident with Leo, which caused Warren’s passing as Leo lost

his eyesight.

Melissa was terrified that the family’s assets would be taken away and cut up by other relatives, so she

urgently changed his family name to Alston, acknowledged him as her son, and named him the next

heir.

That was why Amelie hadn’t seen Chandler before.

He wasn’t in attendance during her wedding, and she was told that he was living abroad.

Everything she knew about Chandler was pieces of broken information she gathered from Leo when

she met him at Quinn Town.

Later, when Leo regained his sight, Chandler was immediately chucked out of the picture by Melissa,

who sent him abroad, implying that he should stay far away from them.

“I’m sorry, Amelie, I’ve always been abroad all these years and rarely had the chance to return, so I’ve

never met you officially,” Chandler explained.

Amclic figured out his status in the family in a matter of seconds and didn’t comment on it.

Instead, she simply clarified, “I have nothing to do with the Alstons because we’re divorced.

So, you shouldn’t regard me as your sister-in-law anymore”

A gentle and warm smile spread across his face.

“I’m here to ask you for a favor, actually.Leo has been fooling around a lot for the past two years and

caused quite some trouble, putting Mother in a pickle at home.Even though you’re divorced from him, I

can tell that you have a special place in his heart.Will you please help us to turn him around so he’ll

keep his behavior in check?”

He sighed before continuing, “I truly want Mother to be happy, but I’m just an adopted son.Even if I stay

by her side every day, I can’t relieve or share her burden.But I truly am worried about her.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t help you.”

If they didn’t consider her immense dislike for anything Melissa-related, even if she had a good

relationship with that impossible woman, she wasn’t in the position to intervene in Leo’s private life.

Thus, she immediately turned Chandler down, nodded at him, and turned to leave because she didn’t

want to waste more time.

“Leo really cares about you!”

Unfortunately, the man didn’t seem to catch her meaning as he caught up to her and kept up with her

pace as he continued, “Mother wanted to convert your room into a storeroom, but he refused to let her

do it.Now, he even turned it into his own bedroom without moving anything that you’ve used before!”

His words made her stop in her tracks abruptly, and she looked at him in disbelief.

Then, Chandler clasped his palms together and pleaded, “Please believe me.

Everything I said is true, and I can even bring you there to have a look for yourself if you want! My dear

sister-in-law, there was probably some misunderstanding, and Leo divorced you unwillingly back then.

All I ask of you is to give him another chance.”

“Why are you telling me these?”

Amelie asked, looking at him emotionlessly.

“I just want to repay their kindness,”

he answered honestly.

“If it weren’t because of them, I wouldn’t even have the chance to attend school.

There’s a high possibility that I’d still be trying to make ends meet at the lowest level of society.

The only reason Leo is fooling around and dating different girls is because of frustration and boredom.

I know he doesn’t have any feelings for them.

I even know another secret.

That is, he had never slept with any of these girls that he dated.”

His last statement sounded ridiculous to her, and she asked, “How did the children come about if he

didn’t sleep with them?”

“They are not his biological children!”

Chandler blurted.

“I did think that they were his children as well, and I became worried when he kept bringing the children

home one after another.

After that, I had each child undergo a paternity test, and the results showed that these children are

unrelated to Leo by blood.

Even later, I found the women he dated, and they confessed that they were merely his female

companions in social events, and they barely even held hands.

Those women who got pregnant simply took advantage of him when he was drunk and tried to create a

scene without any hope that it would succeed.

Yet, Leo didn’t expose their lics and even kept the children.

I’ve asked him about this before, and he said those women tried to blackmail him with the children so

they could be his wife.

Once they lose this opportunity, they would abandon these children instead of raising them properly.

But he doesn’t want these children to be homeless because they reminded him of his daughter, and

because he couldn’t raise his own daughter, he could only remember her in this manner”

Chandler said, tears building up in his eyes.

“Amelie, do you know that he turned alcoholic in the past couple of years? If this continues, he could

die.

I know that he’s heartbroken and doesn’t want to break up with you, but at the same time, he feels

that…

he’s not good enough for you.

Will you please, even if it’s for Bria’s sake, speak with him for even just a moment?”