Leonardo's words shocked Summer for a while before she reacted.
After a while, Summer asked with a puzzled look, "You said that you didn't take my child away, didn't you?"
When she questioned Leonardo that day, he denied it.
Summer wavered and suspected that she guessed wrong.
However, she really couldn't think of anyone else who would take her child away from her.
Summer had some doubts, but she didn't expect Leonardo to admit it frankly and even threatened her.
Leonardo still wore a poker face, and his eyes were cold. "Of course, it's me. Who else would take her away?"
Summer pursed her lips and squeezed out some words, "You wicked man!"
"So, you'd better obey my order now." As Leonardo spoke, he reached out to touch Summer's face.
Summer turned around and dodged his hand, her eyes filling with disgust.
Leonardo threatened Summer with the child and it worked out.
In the following months, Summer neither cried nor made any trouble. She took good care of herself.
Apart from that, she did not speak to Leonardo.
Although Leonardo was angry at Summer's coldness, he had never lost his temper with her.
Even Summer admired Leonardo's patience.
Early in the morning, when they were having breakfast, Leonardo said suddenly, "We will return to Hoover City tomorrow night."
Hearing this, Summer finally spoke to him for the first time this month, "Can I see my child when I go back?"
Leonardo did not say yes or no, and glanced at her, "You haven't returned yet, but do you want to strike a bargain with me?"
Summer shouted angrily, "Leonardo!"
Leonardo looked down and slowly cut the egg on the plate. His voice did not contain any emotion, "You are not entitled to negotiate with me."
Summer clenched her hands and stared at Leonardo, unable to utter a single word.
The next night, Summer and Leonardo boarded the plane back to Hoover City.
The plane landed at the International Airport of Hoover City in the early morning.
Neither of them informed anyone of their return, but they saw Carl and Jessica at the airport.
Jessica had been a little busy in the past six months, so she was tired but looked very energetic.
"Summer, welcome back." Jessica walked over and gave Summer a hug.
Summer reached out and patted her back.
After letting go of Summer, Jessica carefully looked at Summer from head to foot and said, "Why do you look so thin?"
Jessica remembered that she looked quite good when they made a video call before Summer gave birth.
Leonardo had sent someone to take care of Summer after she gave birth. How could she become thinner and thinner?
Summer smiled and asked, "Is that so?"
Jessica also noticed that Summer's expression was somewhat strange. Summer was a new parent but no joy was shown between her eyebrows.
Jessica remembered that Summer refused her request to see the baby through video chatting when she called Summer recently.
"What happened? Where's the baby?" Jessica said as she looked around.
Behind Leonardo and Summer was a group of bodyguards, but their child was not there.
No one answered Jessica's question, as no one could answer the question.
Leonardo frowned slightly and reached out to pull Summer's hand as he walked out.
"Leonardo, don't do this. Shall we have a good talk?"
Summer was really scared. Even her voice became hoarse. "I'm back now. I won't escape anymore. My child is too young and only a month old. She should have grown up beside me. Let me see her and take care of her, okay?"
As she spoke, she choked with sobs and her eyes turned red.
Summer felt extremely sad.
As long as she thought of her one-month-old daughter whose whereabouts were unknown, Summer would feel very sorrowful.
Would the ones that took her baby away take good care of her daughter like parents?
Would her daughter be disliked and neglected because her daughter always cried?
Everyone said that mothers were strong.
However, they were fragile sometimes.
Summer could not help but feel sad when she thought of her child.
Her daughter was so young...
Seeing Leonardo was silent, Summer reached out to hold his hand and pleaded, "Please?"
Her red eyes were filled with tears which seemed to overflow in the next moment.
Leonardo only took a glance before turning to look elsewhere.
His throat slid with difficulty, but he stopped himself from saying the words that came to his lips.
He even hoped that he had used such a dirty trick to force Summer back.
At the very least, when Summer was so sad, he could return the child to her and made her happy.
But now, he could only feel her sadness.
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