Useless Son-in-law Yesterday, Billionaire Heir Today

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“Leon! Leon! Where has that stupid boy gone off to?!” Victoria Xavier's angry voice rings through the house.

Leon is sitting against the side of the bathtub, he sighs and runs his fingers through his hair.

He is just catching his breath after cleaning the bathroom, but his cold-hearted mother-in-law has found him.

“Leon?! How dare you ignore me when I called?!”

He stands up to walk to the door, but she opens it before he can, and she smacks the door in his face.

Her furious eyes almost burn a hole through his skull.

“Oh, there you are, you sick son of a bitch! You have hidden in the bathroom and allowed me to yell around like a fool?!”

Leon smiles sadly. “Oh no, mother, I won't do something like that to you, I was just washing the toilet–”

“Washing?!” She runs her hand over the side of the bathroom, and her finger comes back clean.

He indeed cleaned it as vigorously as he could, but this is not good enough for the old witch!

“Look!!” She shoves her index finger in his face. “Is this clean enough?”

“But, mother, I cleaned it for an hour–”

“The Xavier family allowed you, a nonentity, to marry our precious daughter, and this is how you repay us?!”

Leon sighs. Is there any day that she doesn't bring up this humiliating fact?

“You think the toilet is clean enough?!” She smirks as she empties the small container that holds the toothbrushes, and she uses it as a cup to take some water directly from the toilet bowl!

“Take this, this will be your nutritious drink for your lunch! I'm sure it will be clean enough since you seem to be convinced that you cleaned it so well.”

Leon’s jaw is on the ground, he cannot believe this.

The Xavier family has been horrible to him, but this is a new low, even for his mother-in-law.

“Take it from my hand, or I deal with you mercilessly!” She berates.

He takes it from her, and even bows in appreciation. He feels his eyes stings with tears, but he has to be a man and remain strong.

Victoria gives Leon a nasty look from his head to his toes, and then she glances at her wrist watch with a heavy sigh.

“It's time to give Selina her drugs now, make yourself useful.”

“Yes, mother.” He nods.

“You haven't cut her nails in weeks, do you even know why you have been allowed to marry my precious daughter?”

Leon bows very deeply again. “I will trim her nails, ma'am.”

“Good.” She huffs. “The nutritious toilet water will be your lunch and dinner. That's what you get for being a lazy and ungrateful son-in-law!”

He stands by the door of the bathroom and watches her strut to the exit.

Once she leaves, he heaves and turns the dirty water away, then washes his hands. Once he is done, he returns to the door and his eyes fall on Selina, his beautiful but comatosed wife….

Leon Smith met the Xavier family years ago because his adoptive parents worked for them. Years before they adopted the poor orphan, Leon.

His father was a driver, and his mother was their chef. After almost five years of trying to get pregnant, they found Leon and adopted him to be their only child and beloved son.

He grew up very poor, and barely had enough to go by the day, but he was a very happy child from a happy family. He's very grateful for the life his adoptive parents gave him.

All that changed when his adoptive father died seven years ago. It broke his adoptive mother beyond repair, and the Xavier family never gave her more than a week off to bury him.

She had to return to work immediately, or she would lose her job. His grieving mother never healed but she went back to work.

Three years ago, she suffered a terrible stroke that almost took her life, but fortunately, she survived it.

She might still be alive, but permanently disabled, and can't work anymore. Leon had no choice than to drop out of school, take care of his mother, and beg the Xavier family, on his knees, to give him a job, so that he can pay for his mother's hospital bills….

Surprisingly, the coldest family in the entire world agreed to give him a job.

They led him into a secret room in the back of the house, where he was shocked to see their beautiful daughter, Selina Xavier, lying as still as a dead body, on the bed.

“Our family has kept a secret for a month now. Selina got into a bad accident, and she has fallen into a terrible coma. You must marry her and become her caregiver…that's the only way to save our family from disgrace.”

Leon didn't know the first thing about being a caregiver, but his mother needed medical care, else she would die, so he accepted one of the most humiliating jobs in the world….

Leon picks up the basket that holds all he needs to clean up his comatosed wife, and he walks over to the bed.

“Hello, my wife, your husband is here to clean you up.” He smiles to himself.

He gently pushes her hair away from her face, and he starts to clean her up.

Even though her family treats him badly, he makes sure that he treats her body with the most respect…

Even in her tragic state, Selina Xavier is still very beautiful. Every night, Leon goes on his knees and prays for a miracle – for God to restore beautiful Selina back to health.

Being her husband at first was strange to him, but he has grown to love and cherish her. He believes that when she finally wakes up, she will appreciate everything that he has done for her….

Once he has cleaned her up and administered her drugs to her, he sits next to her, getting ready to read her a book.

The door opens, and Victoria Xavier gets in again.

He quickly stands up and clasps his hands behind him.

She sees Selina all cleaned up, but she isn't grateful, she snorts.

“I hope you don't ogle over my daughter's beautiful body when you change her clothes.”

“Oh, no, mother.” Leon shakes his head.

It's true that he has been married to this girl for three years now, but he has never done anything sexual with her body.

She is beautiful and all, but he is not the kind of man to take advantage of a helpless girl…

Victoria still goes over and examines her daughter. She still doesn't trust the driver's son, even after three years…

“Well, Leon, I have to tell you that I just got off the phone with some really important person, and I must tell you that you have to remain in this room tomorrow because Damien Shankly is coming to visit.”

Leon feels a constriction in his throat. Damien is Selina's ex boyfriend. He was nowhere to be found as soon as Selina had the terrible accident. How dare him show his face after three years of abandoning Selina?!