Leon woke up and glanced up at his family members as they all looked at him with concern. Leon quickly sat up and started patting himself down for his belongings.
"Leon, what's gotten into you!?" Sierra lectured the ecstatic boy, but his pain made him groan out loud.
"Mom, dad, don't be mad, but I went to see Regina Eldredge." Leon chuckled nervously as
"What?!" Tom slammed a glass of vodka on the table as he looked at his son in disbelief.
"You should know better than to talk to that family raised by demons!"
"Dad, I love Regina! She's my everything!" Leon tried to explain only to be shut down by a slap by Sierra.
"Oh, if you love Regina so much, tell me what happened to you to be roughed up like this!"
Tom stated as he poured another shot of Vodka to be able to hear his son ridiculous story.
"We were walking to a home after coming from the mall nearby, and I decided to drop her off. The next thing I knew was getting attacked by these muggers... Regina told me if I stay and fight, she'll call the police to delay time for the muggers. She took my phone and ran away after about 15 minutes. I assumed she was scared, but there was no sign that the police were around. Poor thing, must have gotten scared."
"Leon, she dipped." stated Sophia as everyone shared the same annoyed expression of how dumb Leon can be.
"What do you mean?" stated Leon as he looked visibly upset. "She told me she'll call the police I assume she got sidetracked."
"She ditched you and left you for dead! You still have the audacity to love that she-devil!" Tom Alder temper was rising as he drank some more shots, causing Sophia to be concerned.
As Leon sat comfortable on the couch as his mother brung back a first aid kit and cleaned his wounds. Leon remained silent, but his face twisted to anger.
"But dad, Regina loves me unlike Alexander with a certain someone! It's your fault, Sophia, that Regina doesn't love me! If only you put up with Alexander bullshit, maybe Regina will always want to be with me!" Leon shouted as he startled his mother, who was cleaning his wound.
Suddenly, a sharp sting was Leon's cheek as Sophia stood there in an awkward gate that looked painful from the cast and her injured leg, but she needed to slap some sense into Leon She had tears in her eyes, and Leon knew he shouldn't have said what he said. He realized he hurt Sophia, his older half-sister, who was always right and admirable. For her to get out of her wheelchair to slap him must have been too much.
Sophia stumbled back, causing everyone to get up, but she was caught by Lucas, who glared at Leon.
"Your sister suffered during that circus called an engagement and you said she should have put up with it so you can have a fucking girl?! A girl that abandons you to leave you for dead?!" Lucas yelled annoyed at Leon's selfishness and greed. "There is so many other girls in the world and you choose a bitch from a family of bastards!"
"Tom, is this how you raise your son? To be this weak? Youth these days." Gia frowned then turned to Sophia who looked annoyed at Leon.
"Dear, your brother is dumb. At least you have common sense time to time." Gia smiled at Sophia as she takes a glass of vodka from a servant tray.
"The Phone!" Suddenly Leon went pale as he searched every pocket. "No, the company emails! The company stocks! I had all that information on there!"
Everyone stared at Leon bewildered then realized that this boy was idoitic to give away his phone with a copy of the company projects. Tom stood up and marched over to Leon quickly.
"Forgive me, lord as I'm about to kill my only son." Tom quickly seized Leon by the collar and dragged him to the studies and yelling can be heard from upstairs. "How did you let that happen?! Do you know how much information your sister and I researched for this project to go smoothly?! You're lucky that I already publicized our project and trad marked it earlier! If I ever hear you lost a project again, you're finished! Finished!"
Sophia felt a little nervous for Leon even though it was common for siblings to hate each other in moderation, especially step-siblings. She and Leon bonded since childhood. Sophia never had a dislike towards Sierra nor Leon. Even though Sierra is her stepmother, she was never meant to begin with just blunt and nice. But the rest of Sierra's family members are as slick as the Eldredge family. She's just a good apple in a barrel of rotten ones.
"Dad is being hard on Leon. The Eldredge family is a tricky low-life that lives off of other rich family success." Sophia turned towards Sierra, trying to calm her down as she watched her sobbed. Sophia took out the folder and placed it on the table in front of Gia and Sierra. Gia throughly read through the folder, but her face slowly churned into disgust.
"I told Leon to stop hanging with that Regina, girl! Now your father is chewing him out, and I don't have much of a say to this." Sierra took a tissue and wipped her eyes as she looked up at everyone. "Every time I call him, it's Regina this and Regina that."
"Well, now he will know to never trust Regina anymore! That lecture is not a lecture it's a threat to know that the Elderedge family are bastards!" Lucas said with his arms crossed and watched Gia's expression.
"I sill can't believe we almost married and forced Sophia into this horrible family of people. Not only would Sophia suffered she would have her inheritance taken from her right away and abused. Kind of thinking of it, I heard a rumor before that I didn't believe that Regina managed to convinced her last boyfriend to put her as a guarantor on his bank account then not even 1 month later her boyfriend died in a car accident." Gia explained as she put the folder down and glanced at Sophia with an apologetic look.
"That boyfriend before that died of an incident on vacation with the Elderedge family."
"How come the females never die? Alexander could have killed me." stated Sophia as she felt angered by the fact that Alexander and his family could just wipe her off the face of the earth.
"Sara Elderedge was too nice to you. She wanted you to be the sole true wife. So it's possible you wouldn't be murdered but suppressed." stated Lucas as he pondered.
"Maybe there's more to what the agenda of the Elderedge family had for me. Since they harmed Leon, then we will give Regina and the Elderedge family their just desserts. " Sophia smirked, then turned to Gia and Sierra, who smiled in agreement.
Lucas couldn't help and smile at Sophia's little smirks. The rabbit was becoming devious, and he knew.
***********Elderedge Residence**********
"Daddy." A young girl with blonde hair and green eyes walked into the home studies that belong to father, Hector Elderedge.
"Regina, my dear, did you trick the Alder boy? Did you manage to get the company information from him? hmn?" Hector grabbed Regina shoulders out of excitement as her grin widden.
"Of course, Daddy, everything is on this phone. The Alder family will lose fame, and we can't fail at our plan."Regina smirked as she placed the phone at the table and smiled inwardly.
'This is the moment for me to shine to get Daddy's attention.'
"Your brothers are not as smart as you, my dear. Your other brother, Julian, is coming back, you know." stated Hector as he walked over to a picture frame of two little boys holding their baby sister in the picture. "I think of making him my heir. But I see you're quite as capable as well, Regina, don't fail me."
"Of, Course Father, I will not fail you." Regina backs away then walked outside the office to meet Alexander, who glared at her as she made a "hmph" sound, then walked away.
'What did Regina and father discuss? I must know.'