She went upstairs towards her bedroom to laze around and fix some things.
She cleaned the messy bedsheets. While doing so, she noticed that there are some of Leo's things he left. Well, maybe because he was in a hurry to go home this morning.
'Did he forgot his watch and his wallet?'
Liz picked up Leo's watch and wallet from the chair.
'It's not like him to forget things easily. Did something important come up?'
Liz thought hard about some of the important occasion that may occur to the Monetenegro family.
"Claire...I miss you"
She suddenly remembered that last night when Leo was sleeping he did murmur something softly.
A glint of pain passed through her eyes but it quickly faded away and was replaced by her indifferent eyes.
'Claire?' Is it about his dead girlfriend? The legendary woman who was able to steal Leo's heart and is the mother of his hidden prince.
To tell the truth, no one knows the identity of Leo's beloved and the mother of his son.
The only people who knew her name, was of course, his flings and mistresses. As he always, maybe accidentally calls her name while sleeping with women. Liz knew about her name long time ago when she became Leo's new mistress.
It occurred many times in bed that he would call her name and even murmur some phrases or sentence. With Liz being attentive and clever, she managed to piece up some information. She did not feel angry towards the woman who Leo fell in love with since in the first place she had no right to. Neither did she felt jealousy, since she thought it's not good to envy the dead.
Instead she felt pity towards the son she left without a mother. Let's just say that Liz is just too kind to feel those emotions, it has always been that way since she was a child.
Besides, it was maybe because of her abundant love for the man, that in fact she felt sad for Leo. So sometimes, instead of reacting dramatically like all the other women would do, she would just massage his frowning forehead and lull him to sleep. She wanted to give the best for the man.
She left the watch and the wallet on her side table while fixing up some of Leo's clothes in the closet since they share the same closet. It has been decided that way since he will suddenly come to her place at night and would leave early in the morning, so it's better to put up some of his necessities in her room.
While cleaning all things up, she finally sat on the corner of the bed and thought whether to take it to Leo's house or not.
"What a trouble."
She has a headache choosing between the options. If she chose to go to his residence now, he will most probably be angry at her for showing up at his place. Since it's known that he doesn't want his son to see his mistresses.
She stared at the things he left for a long while. After what seems to be a full minute, she stood up. However, it may be due to tiredness at work or lack of sleep, she got up quite dizzily.
She grabbed the table for support and accidentally knocked over the books atop which made it and the wallet beside it slide over and fell down to the carpeted floor.
It just so happened that the wallet's position is opened up when it fell. And so the picture of a couple was shown in front of the still dizzy Liz. She looks at it for a while and picked it up.
"So this is Claire huh? This is also Leo back then..."
At the picture a woman of light brown hair and dark lifted eyes was smiling happily together with Leo who seemed young at that time and actually...has a smile on his face.
'Well that's refreshing. Seeing him happy for the first time.'
She flipped the picture and noticed a string of letters written.
"Claire, I'm sorry for being too late. I miss you very much. Our baby also misses you. Won't you come back to me, please? How could you leave us right now."
The note was written like that and below it has a date written to it.
'1-15-16'
The short heartfelt message of Leo actually made her tear up with her tears threatening to fall down any second. A gush of pain attacked her heart that solely belongs to that man.
'It hurts'
She seemed to feel hurt and pity for the man that fell deeply in love and was hurt by watching his beloved pass away.
She calmed herself down and decided to return Leo's things immediately.
Why you say? Because the date indicated the death anniversary of his only beloved woman and the birthday of his only son.
Liz headed downstairs and went towards her car coming straight to the Montenegro residence.
'He probably couldn't afford to lose this wallet of him since it has his most treasured picture. And besides....he needs it today. Because it's January 15th.'