Atrophy of Love: Mr. Harris, Stop Fooling Around! novel Chapter 110

“I think she thinks Charles likes me, so she wants to kill me. I’ve always treated her as my best friend. I don’t know why she did that.” Leah cried pitifully. One would pity her just looking at her.

Charles sat on the chair and crossed his hands across his knees. When he heard that, he lifted his head to look at Leah. Then, he lowered his head again. The look in his eyes was unreadable.

Madam Jones almost could not breathe from anger. “S-sophia… I treated her like my own daughter! How dare she do this kind of evil thing! I want to sue her! I want her to go to prison!”

“Mom…” Leah cried and grabbed her arm. She shook her head. “No, she’s my best friend, I…”

Mr. Jones was standing on one side. He looked at his daughter, seemingly deep in thought.

Madam Jones felt resentful toward Leah for failing to meet her expectations. Then, she interrupted Leah angrily and sadly, “Do you know you almost died? Do you know your legs are broken and you can never dance again? And you’re still helping that murderer!”

When she heard that, Leah was shocked.

She looked at her right leg and tried to move it. When she noticed she could not move it, she opened her mouth slightly and tears rolled down her cheeks.

William looked conflicted, seemingly in pain. He frowned and said, “Is there any misunderstanding? Even though Soph is slightly chaotic at times, but…”

Slap!

Madam Jones slapped him heavily across the face. She pointed at him with shaky fingers. “Don’t you feel embarrassed chasing after that murderer? She wants to kill your sister and you’re still standing up for her?”

She gasped for air. Her voice sounded piercing from the high octave. “Do you think your sister will risk her own life to falsely accuse that murderer?”

Leah did not blame him. She only lied in bed and looked at him with tears in her eyes. She looked extremely hurt.

William felt remorseful when she looked at him like that. He clutched the side of his face that had been slapped, his heart throbbing in pain. “Leah, I’m sorry. If I hadn’t asked you to be friends with her, you wouldn’t be… like this.”

“Will, don’t blame yourself. Although I don’t have my leg, I’m still alive. Being alive is better than anything!” Leah forced out a smile. However, tears still rolled down her cheeks uncontrollably.

If she had blamed him or hit him, perhaps William would feel much better. As a dancer, she could not dance anymore, but she was still trying to comfort him. This made him feel extremely terrible.

He clenched his fist. His eyes were filled with struggle and hatred. He looked at his sister on the bed and said solemnly, “Leah, I’ll make things right for you.”

“This is how an older brother should be. Let’s go. Let’s get that murdere!” Madam Jones pulled William to get out of the room. Then, she turned her head and looked at Mr. Jones. “Come along!”

Mr. Jones grunted a reply and said to Charles who had been sitting there silently the entire time, “Charles, I’ll leave Leah to you. At the end of the day, she got hurt because of you.”

He patted Charles’ shoulder and looked at Leah profoundly. Then, he got out of the room under Madam Jones’ constant nagging.

After the door was closed, there were only Charles and Leah in the room.

Leah wiped away the tears on her face and forced out a smile. She said, “I’m fine. You must be tired after working the entire day. You should go back and rest. I won’t kill myself because I can’t dance anymore.”

Charles stared at her and did not say anything.