The Apple of My Eye novel Chapter 1861

Leila almost lost her mind thinking about the matter. She kept pondering on it all the way back to Dream Garden.

In Dream Garden

After ending the phone call with Leila, Melissa was still in tears. If she did not have Charles standing in front of her in person, she would not have believed herself.

"Mom, stop crying. All the bad things are now in the past." Charles' heart melted at the sight of his mother being so overwhelmed to see him alive. He could understand how worried Melissa might have worried because of his disappearance. On top of that, she was a cancer patient herself. She looked so frail!

"I won't cry anymore. Now that you have come back, everything will be alright." Melissa tried to stop crying and smiled. Yet tears welled up and rolled down incessantly, even though her smile. She took a deep breath and grabbed his hand. Then she heaved a deep sigh and closed her eyes as if only in this way could she feel relieved.

Right at that moment, Leila walked through the door. Although she was extremely petrified in her mind, she knew that she had to appear surprised and happy at Charles' return.

The main door of Dream Garden was pushed open, and Leila came in. She looked at Charles in disbelief. She took a deep breath before feigning tears of happiness. Then she ran to him, with tears falling from her eyes.

"Charles, are you okay?"

"What? Do you want me to be in trouble?" Charles joked and stared at Leila, with a faint smile.

Suddenly, the smile disappeared from Leila's face, and she pretended to be irked by Charles' remark. She was at a loss for words for a moment.

The look on Leila's face was self-explanatory, and this did not evade Charles' attention. Yet, he said casually, "We are meeting after such a long time. And I can't even crack a joke with you?"

"Charles, Aunt Melissa is well aware of how much I was worried about you. Now you are talking like that. So I feel unhappy." Leila still looked worried. She had felt the pang of sarcasm in Charles' words.

Leila knew that Charles wouldn't normally speak to her in that way. For a minute, she felt that he must have discovered something.

David was standing next to Charles and couldn't help but bite his lips at seeing Leila's hypocrisy. He could hardly tolerate her pretense. He almost exposed this shameless woman.

However, Charles didn't want to expose Leila in front of Melissa. But at the thought that everything had been planned by her, he found it intolerable to put up with the act anymore.

As soon as Leila finished speaking, she looked pitiful and broke into an uncontrollable sob.

Melissa felt sorry for Leila and rushed to her. She didn't forget to roll her eyes at Charles and then looked at Leila gently. "Leila, stop crying. Charles is fine. See, he is home now."

"Aunt Melissa, I have been so worried all these days..." Finally, Leila found someone to sympathize with her, and she seized the opportunity to prove her good intentions.

Leila went on to tell Charles that she had gone through a difficult time these past few days.

But Charles seemed completely indifferent. He turned around and started talking to David about some unimportant matters.

Leila sobbed bitterly at being cold-shouldered by Charles. However, she only ended up being embarrassed all the more.