2025-05-14 03:45:48“How dare you?! You are a filthy and useless man! You can never be my husband!” She screams at him. “There is only one man in this world for me, and that's Damien Shankly!”
“Damien?” Leon runs his hand over his face. “The same man that abandoned you after the accident?” Victoria sighs as she steps forward. “Okay, Leon, enough of this madness. My daughter is awake now, and I consider our contract to be void, after all, you disobeyed me. Pack your things and leave now!” Leon holds his hand over his chest, this is a betrayal that he will never recover from! He has been used for three years by the Xavier family! Selina folds her hands. “My lawyer will bring the divorce papers very soon, and you will sign them.” “You are throwing me out like a dog, Selina! That's unfair, I gave you my all for three years!” Leon cries out as he steps forward. Victoria scoffs. “And so what, Leon? We allowed you to marry into our family, is that not gracious enough?” “What has Damien done that I haven't done for Selina?!” He asks. “I took care of her, but he abandoned her for three years!” “And he gave me the injection that woke me up!” Selina roars back in his face. Leon is numb. Did Damien really get Selina to stand up after three years? Is he the miracle worker? Selina and her mother see the heavy shock on Leon's face, and this makes them look at each other and laugh. “You think that Damien is useless and unknown like you? He is the youngest child of the Shankly family! His sister is a marvelous doctor and they have the biggest medical and investment empire! His sister's newest drug has brought me back to consciousness, even though I have to take it everyday to remain awake, else it will be temporary. She is busy, but she will soon give me a permanent cure in a week!” Leon swallows a hard lump of sorrow. He was going to be a doctor too, he was in his third year of medical school, but he dropped out after what happened to his adoptive mother… He is lost in this situation, wasting his love on a comatose woman that won't even appreciate him now. He still has to take care of his mother, so he has to accept defeat and look for a way to benefit from this for the last time. “I won't be divorcing you.” He declares. “Excuse me?” Selina glares. “I have a right in this marriage, so I can say I won't divorce you.” He says. “Except you agree to give me $3000 every month.” “Excuse you!” Victoria snaps at him. “How dare you try to squeeze cash out of my family? You are a gold digger!!” “You can call me all you want, but I will use the $3000 to treat my mother. Agree to give me that sum every month, for two years, and we have a deal.” He expects Selina to burst out in even more rage, but she smiles wickedly and folds her hands. “$3000? Is that what you want? That money is chicken change to my family, our dogs’ treats are more expensive than that, so it's not a problem…” Leon sighs with relief. Seems that Selina still has a little bit of humanity, after all. His plan is to use the money for his mother's medication. “Thank you, Selina.” “But under one condition.” “Anything, I will do.” He shrugs. She smirks as she slowly tosses her left leg forward. “I will agree, if you go down on your knees and kiss my beautiful feet.” Leon feels shame settle on him like a heavy blanket. He looks at his mother-in-law, but she is amused by what her daughter has just said. “Go on, Leon. Show us how important your poor mother is to you.” Does he have a choice? The money will keep his mother alive till he is able to find a good job to sustain both of them, so he goes down on his knees. He shuts his eyes as he leans forward to kiss her feet, he just wants to be done with it. What he doesn't know is that Selina has moved her foot back, before gathering enough momentum to kick him in his face. He falls over, bleeding from his broken nose. She laughs and throws her head back with her mother. “Look at this worthless fool, mum? He will do anything for money. I can't believe you allowed him to even get married to me!” Leon takes out his handkerchief and holds it over his nose. This is the most humiliating day of his life.
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This is the most important thing that Leon would ever have to do in his life. As he looks down, he sees over a thousand doctors that has studied and achieved so much in their lives, and he wonders if they are going to laugh in his face when he delivers his lecture. His eyes move to MJ, and she crosses her fingers in support of him. Helen is a few steps away from him, so he takes a deep breath in, and delivers the most breath taking lecturer. By the end of it, the entire auditorium is standing on their feet cheering and applauding him. “This is the most brilliant thing we have heard from such a young man!” “He is going to be the greatest Doctor of the century!” Leon bows, his hands held over his chest. Helen has tears in her eyes with pride. She can go to sleep peacefully from now on. Her family empire is going to be in good hands…At the end of the conference, it's evident that no other lectures, not even from the top doctor professors, has been able to match Leon's. Everyon
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Leon looks in the mirror and sighs because he realizes that he will have to change his tie for the third time. There is nothing wrong with the tie, or the others that he had put on before. It's just that he is very nervous to be attending this conference. It's not a small event, not to him. He will get to meet many doctors that he has looked up to. He is going to meet MJ's family, and so many others too. By the time he gets downstairs, Helen is waiting for him in a green dress. Her serious face breaks into a smile once she sees him. “Wow, you look so handsome, Leon. Here, I will take a quick picture for the twins!” Leon blushes as she puts her phone up and takes some pictures. It's nice that his sisters don't care that he is in his mid twenties. They are going to treat him with the fondness they've been saving for him. Even with that happiness, he feels a bad thought haunting him in his heart. “But Helen, I don't think that Damien wants me to be there.” He heaves. “And you
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Leon freezes once he hears what his sister has just said. He is going to the Conference?! Damien laughs as he slowly lays down his spoon and wipes his mouth with a napkin. “Helen, please tell me that this is a joke,” he calmly requires. Helen sighs, she knows he won't take it likely. “Listen to me, Damien, for the first time in your entitled life, think! Leon has never attended before, why don't you allow him to go to this one?!” “Because it is my birthright, damn it!” He hits his hand on the table in anger, attracting the attention of the staff around. “Is it my fault that he was born into the family of nobodies? Why do I have to sacrifice things for him because he is your protege?!” Helen sees that he is like a pot boiling over, and she immediately wishes that she never said anything here in the first place. “Please, Damien. It's very important to me that Leon attend it.” She tries to reach for Damien's hand, but he shifts his hand away. “It's important to me that I attend
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Helen peers at the screen of the iPad, totally flabbergasted by what she has seen. Leon takes the long look on her face to mean that he has somehow messed up her project. “Helen, did I get it wrong?” He asks with worry. “Oh, no, Leon.” She chuckles. “This is not wrong, this is brilliant. Wait here, I've got to make a phone call.” She rushes to her laboratory and immediately types on her computer, and before running the code. “It works,” she presses her hands over her face. “Oh my God!” She picks her phone and make a call. “Doctor Elle, I need you to drop everything you are doing and run this correction I am going to send to you. I think there is a way for us to run the drug without the endless list of side effects.” The person at the other end exhales. “Doctor Shankly, are you sure?” “Run it. It works on my end.” Helen sends it, and she smiles once she hears the gasp from the doctor. “This is a miracle, Helen! How were you able to break it? We haven't been able to sleep bec
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Selina holds her breath, she has just given her halfbrother the biggest threat ever. This could go two ways. It's either he listens to her and allows them to be, or he will be even more angry, and throws them out. But Donald Xavier comes to her face and bends to meet her height. “Is this one of your jokes, Selina?” He snorts. “A joke?” She retorts. “Look at my engagement ring! Do you still think I am joking?” But Donald doesn't even glance at the huge rock on her finger. For all he knows, it might be a fake. “Get me a dinner meeting with your so called husband to be, and I will believe you.” Mrs Xavier shakes her head with eyes weakened from crying. “You won't believe us until it's too late.” “You have five days to get me dinner with the heir of the Shankly family, and then maybe I can strike a deal with you, dear sister.” He snaps his fingers, and his men immediately starts to walk to their cars. Selina and her mother watch in fright as the cars leave the compound. It's li
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Hearing MJ introduce herself as Leon's girlfriend makes Selina laugh in disbelief. She strongly believes that Leon is still in love with her, and won't move so quickly to another woman. She doesn't love Leon anymore, but she loves the idea of him begging for her to take him back till eternity….“Please, spare me the lies!” She hiss rudely. “Leon is not qualified enough to be with a girl like you!” MJ is immediately offended by this. “What's that supposed to mean? Leon is handsome and kind, is that not enough for us to love each other?” Selina scoffs. “Silly girl! He doesn't have a dollar to his name, so any lies he has told you, it's better you don't believe it! Trust me, I divorced him due to how useless he is!” Leon just looks down, he has gotten so used to Selina embarrassing him, but MJ is not going to be having any of that today. She pulls Leon in and gives him a hot and deep kiss on his lips. Everyone gasps, because it's like a scene from a fairytale. “I'm in love with
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