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3. Leon's hands tremble with anger and humiliation. His nose hasn't stopped bleeding, he is in a very sorry state.

Selina and her mother don't care for him, she laughs and points at him.

“Look at this loser! You thought that I would love you happily once I woke up?”

Victoria huffs. “You thought that you had successfully latched your fangs into my family? You are greatly mistaken.”

The door opens, and one of the servants comes in with a file in her hand.

Leon doesn't need a soothsayer to tell him what it is. The divorce papers.

Selina thrusts it forward in his face. “Here, sign it before I change my mind and send you to jail!”

“Hurry, poor boy! People shouldn't even know that my daughter was once married to a loser!”

Leon sniffles and crunches his nose. His mother will be dead in a week if he can't come up with the money for her drugs, but he quickly takes up the pen and signs the divorce papers.

Yes, even Selina and her mother are shocked to see him act so quickly, but they are glad. Now, they have gotten rid of the stupid and useless son-in-law!

“Here, I have signed the papers,” he hands them back to Selina. “After three years of giving you only the best of me, I guess it's all over.”

She grins as she snatches the papers away from him. “Good! That means that I can go ahead and marry my sweet Damien. Soon, his sister will permanently cure me, and we will live very happy lives!”

Leon feels like someone has taken a dagger and driven it into his heart, his nostrils flares, but there is nothing he can do about it.

He loved and took care of a woman who only dumped him to go back to her first love.

“Pack your rags and leave my house, Leon.” Victoria orders him. “And I better not see you close again!”

He turns his neck to look at her.

“What about my parents retirement money–”

“Your adoptive parents were lazy and don't deserve anything from us,” Victoria snorts. “Let your stupid mother join your father in death, I don't care.”

Leon's right hand is behind him, he squeezes it into a fist. Leon promises himself revenge against the Xavier family.

One way or another, he is going to make them pay. He doesn't care if it takes him a thousand years.

He rushes into his room and gets his old backpack. He has just a few changes of clothes, and he tosses them into the bag, and he picks up a small pendant that means the world to him.

The picture of three young girls is so blurry, that he can't see the faces anymore.

These are his sisters, and that's all he knows…

You see, Leon and his parents had an open secret. Leon was adopted.

His mother found him as a toddler, behind a pile of old trash cans, and she took him with her.

She took him to be her miracle child, because they couldn't get a child after being married for years.

Her husband was worried, and suggested that they take Leon to the police, but the men kept whispering to each other, acting suspicious. She feared that they were dirty cops, so she took Leon and ran away.

Her husband gave Leon a clean barb in the bathroom, to keep him protected, and they lived in paranoia for a decade, and finally, they started to live in peace knowing that no one was coming to take their son from them….

His pendant is all he had from his past identity, and the little girls– his adorable sisters– would be grown women by now.

His name is carved into the pendant, and that's the name he was called.

Leon sighs as he puts it over his neck, throws his backpack over his shoulder, and walks out.

Selina and her mother are waiting for him outside, but they are not alone.

Leon's jaw tightens when he sets his eyes on the man that has ruined his life. Damien Shankly.

Damien Shankly and Selina are making out against the wall, throwing glances at him and laughs in his face.

“Leave faster, loser!” Damien shouts. “You are stinking up this place with your loser attitude!”

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