“ LEAVE ME ALONE .”

³Leila collapsed on the side, hitting her head on the first step of the stairs, she endured the pain perfectly as if she's made of iron, ignoring the dizzy spells she got, she won't back down, she wanted to show she's not an easy enemy.

And she won't show her weaknesses even though she was tearing in pieces and trembling in pain, people around her will only make her vulnerability a weapon against her, no one can belittle her, not even the witch mother and daughter.

She pulled herself up and threw a vase that touched her hand, which Gina took, protecting her mother.

“Bitch of a mother, giving birth to a bitchy daughter, how is it Gina? Is it good to steal my boyfriend? And now your mother stealing my father? You both share the same hobby, how pathetic”

Now that, Gina shows herself, making Leila's blood boil.

“I don't know what you mean Leila, we're best friends, why would I steal your boyfriend?” denying the facts.

“Are you for real? You spike my drinks to take Jason all yours! Stop acting like you don't know” she glared at the shameless Gina acting all innocent.

“What are talking about Leila? Have you not been taught not to accuse people without evidence?” Rose stood up for her daughter, butting in to Leila's words.

“What an actress? Want me to give her Nobel Prize?” She walked two strides, giving Gina a twin slap.

Pak.

Pak.

“Enough, Leila! What are you doing with my daughter?”

Standing in between to protect her daughter, only to get kicked on the leg and fall back on the floor.

“Why are you doing this to us? We have never done you wrong Leila, why are you hurting us?”

Rose asked Leila but what she gets as an answer was Leila's silence removing both deathly heels.

“You know what? I'm tired of watching your act, this is for you Gina, for stealing my boyfriend”

Thud.

Gina used her hands to cover her face.

“Don't hurt my daughter!” She run to hug her daughter with a scratch from the heels.

“Why would I stop? You're protecting your mini version of a sucker? And you! Justifying yourself for whoring my father?”

Thud.

The heels were thrown at them but instead of pain on their faces, they gave her a sly smile, which angered her the most.

“Ha” She hated the thought of being framed but Rose and Gina were good at doing an absolute show, playing the pitiful victim and her the perfect villain.

“Scoundrel!” She screamed and Rose used that opportunity to get hit, which wounded her forehead from Leila's nails, joined by Gina's crying crocodile tears.

“Don't hurt my mother, take it all on me! Leila, it's me that you hold a grudge, right?”

Brendan pulled Leila away from the two, throwing her aside, and covered Rose with his robe, after changing into his clothes, and asked Gina where it hurt.

“As expected! I became the villain instantly! Want me to congratulate you both? Might also want to win people's sympathy?”

“Leila! This is enough! You're too much, stop being a disgrace to me”

“Are you serious? I'm the -----

“Shut up Leila!”

Leila was shocked when Brendan throw back her heels, hurting her knees, just to stop her from talking, and when she lifted her head, his father, who's hugging the two, gave her a winning smile.

Telling her that they won the fight, eager to explain her part being wrong, she screamed in anger.

“Why would I? Gina stole my boyfriend! And now her moth----

“Enough!”

“No! Just because you told me so? Father , I'm your daughter here! Listen to me! Can't you see they're framing me!”

Brendan throws the other pair of the heels, scarring Leila's cheeks.

“Rose was pregnant with my child before I married your mother for convenience!”

“What?” Leila

“Rose and I were already a couple back then, but because of companies inflation stock market, I had no choice but to accept the long postpone marriage, and left Rose alone without my knowledge of her pregnancy”

The information was too much to contain, as if a joke was trying to make itself known, but it was indeed the truth.

“No way, you're telling me I have a bitchy half sister?”

“Leila, be careful with your tongue!”

“What? I'm telling the truth!”

“Enough is enough Leila, from now on, you need to get along with them, and we'll start a new family, by tomorrow they will move in with us, and I will marry Rose”

Leila's ears were irking from the sudden revelation and to know that she will live with them under the same roof, where she had many beautiful memories with her mother, makes her enrage.

“You've got to be kidding me? No way! No one can replace mom! I cannot accept a whore ----

Pak.

A slap that silences the room.

“You hit me, father?”

In Leila's twenty-four years of experience, her father never lifted a hand nor hurt her, but because of Rose and Gina, she got hurt without being heard.

“Don't embarrass me more, Leila! Accept it or not, we are a family now!

“No! Never!”

She pushed her father away with welling tears, and used her shoulder to bump the two before leaving.

After running away, all the tears she couldn't stop from falling blurred her eyesight, she was wandering, without protection on her feet, the blood on her face washed away by her tears.

She's not aware of where she's walking and trips down, brimming with tears.

Meanwhile, a black car stopped not far from where she was, and a man got down, and sat eye level with her, stroking those tears.

But his hands were slap before it could clean Leila's face.

“Argh! You again! Isn't my payment not enough? Or Gina sent you to ruin me more?”

“What?” Andrew laughed at what he heard, the sad maiden transformed into a wild, untamed tigress again.

“Hey, tell me, maybe I can help you?”

“Tsk! Don't touch me! I don't need anyone, not especially you!”

Thanks to the disturbance of what she thought a gigolo, Leila gathered herself and stood on two feet.

“Hey? Are you ok now? You're fast in changing emotions, are you a robot perhaps?” Andrew tried to joke.

Leila ignored his blubbering and noticed what's her state, after eyeing her poor feet all black from walking like dead, she extended her hands to him, touching his chest.

That gives Andrew goosebumps.

“Leave me alone.”

Walking past him, Andrew couldn't help but sigh deep, shaking his head, his lower region killing him.

“She was fierce when she left me that morning, now I saw her crying like a kitten, next second she's back to being a tigress, that's my woman”

Watching the back of Leila, Andrew signed a thumbs up to the other person inside the car, rolling its eyes, seeing the smug flashing smile around the corners of its lips.

“I bet he got the right woman?”