The Secret Bride's
Episode 73: Leon knows

This dining room feels different, some are warm and cracked. Darren, who would normally be quiet at the dinner table, now speaks actively with Leon. Until Valerei herself felt she did not know her husband, not without reason. He raised the glass realizing that the contents had been exhausted he drank while watching the two.

That became the focus of the butler, he asked the younger servant to pour water into an empty glass in front of Valerei. Finished with an empty glass, his nimble hands spread towards the jar of potato chips with a sprinkling of his favorite seasoning, the taste of roasted beef. However, instead of finding happiness he had to accept the fact that his jar was sad to have lost the friends he had accommodated.

Valerei's heavy breathing, became the center of attention of everyone in the dining table area. Darren watched his wife and went down to see fingers that had been stained with chips. He realized that the breath had come from the end of his favorite chips. Darren took the empty jar and gave it to the waiter who had poured water into his wife's glass.

"Please get it again." he asked, even though he was a boss but the words 'please' and 'thank you' that Deora's mother taught him were always remembered. Maybe it became Darren's asset, other than because of family problems there was never a servant or guard who came out without news or because of his inability as a good employer.

"Thank you!" Back he said, when the waiter came in with a jar full of chips. Valerei was happy, this time her husband was sensitive she said inwardly. Her hand was pulled slowly by Darren, she was shocked to find her husband picking up a tissue.

"What do you want Darren?" valerei asked, trying to pull out his hand but unable to, his hand was still held.

"Here!" darren Tegur.

"I still want to eat!" Her face was made as blank as possible, so that her husband would understand.

"I know, go ahead first." insisted Darren.

"Ih, what the hell! it can be licked! Mubazir, the season is delicious!" with a quick mode, he could release his hand from Darren.

Leon notices everything is going on, he finds it interesting from Darren's attitude to Valerei. "Fire"

The two adults who were going to argue about the rest of the spices in Valerei's hands looked at Leon together. "Yes son?" reply Darren.

"Did mommy upset you a lot?"

Valerei who heard Leon's question, made an expression of disbelief, her pupils shrinking with fused eyebrows. Did his ears hear wrong?

Darren alternated looking at the two. "Mommy?"

Leon nodded. "You're so patient!"

Like falling over a mango tree, Valerei felt a little disappointed. If his son only felt he was the one who often made people upset how about Darren who experienced it directly.

The cloudy cloud that had just finished with the rain again hit the Lee residence. Valerei was silent, his eyes blankly fixed on the jar of chips. He did not blink, once he blinked those tears fell on his cheeks.

Surprised by his wife's response. As fast as lightning, hugging Valerei, drowning his wife's head in the chest of his field. "Vallery!" call Darren. He had thought that Valerei would go berserk hearing Leon's words, but his wife was crying.

The servants saw the interaction between the small family panic. However, it was different from the expression of the butler in the house. The smile of the butler knot who has worked for the Lee family for decades became one of the interesting things. If remembered first, he had never seen the atmosphere of the dining table so different.

Valerei's cries did not subside, eventually the food that had just been served was not tasted. Darren asks the butler to help Leon eat. Reminds Leon to eat well otherwise Valerei will get angry. While he, will take care of Valerei in the room.

After the death of the two, Leon ate well assisted by the Lee family servant, he could not follow the two because some things about the relationship of husband and wife he could not interfere with. In there, she felt guilty for making her beloved mother cry. However, she learns that the suspicion on her mother's body is true.

Valerei is not a woman who gets carried away easily, only one thing can make him change quickly and that's what Leon found out earlier. "Mommy never lied to me, that day didn't!"

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Japan, 2 years ago

Valerei ran after getting off the bus from work. At 11pm, Elena called that a group of people had come to the house looking for her. Elena didn't know who they were, definitely not Frederick's.

He even ignored some friendly greetings from the neighbors who passed him on the street. Not wanting to linger, he further accelerated his pace.

"Elena!" he screamed when he entered the house.

However, it was not Elena that he found but Darren and many of his subordinates who wore suits. The man stood his back to himself, he was facing towards the large photo hanging on the wall.

"What is a family photo?" Darren turned around, for the first time after their wedding Darren looked so different. He felt that Darren looked stranger than usual.

Valerei came forward to Darren, he squeezed his sweaty hands, tired side by side nervously. Right in front of him Darren lowered his head whispering a sentence. "Until I see Frederick touch you again! Rey will know your position right then and there! Frederick will pay dearly for what he did! You better remember, don't make me repeat!"

After he said his long sentence, Darren went to take everyone who was inside the house out, five minutes later everything was clean. Then, from across the street there is a car that will enter the yard of the house. When it stopped, from the car came down Elena and Leon in his carry.

The car that just left was Darren's company car, he knew the emblem of the hill was behind on the right.

"They are who brother? why are they looking for you?" Elena glorified him with a question.

Try not to strain the atmosphere. "It's okay, they won't hurt us!"

Elena could not stop worrying, seeing that many people dressed in black frightened her.

"You all right? we need to tell Frederick?"

"No, I can take care of everything! you and Leon just take it easy, okay?"

Although Valerei said he was fine but Elena was certainly not calm. He calls Frederick, lies about his concerns about Rey, and Frederick sends his men to Japan to look after them.

At night, Valerie sat alone at the dinner table, drowning her head between folded arms. I don't know how long he's been in that state.

"Mommy?" call Leon from the front.

Valerie was surprised and saw the clock on the wall. Early morning. "Leon? what's up, son? why haven't you slept?"

"Mommy, who was it?"

"Huh? who's son?"

"The guys in suits, what are they doing here?"

"Oh?"

"Mommy can't tell Leon. But later when the time comes, Leon will meet him. He, the one who will always protect mami!"

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A week passed.

Valerei put Leon to sleep, reading a beloved book about a little boy and an apple tree. The page of the book was almost finished but Leon had not shown the attitude of going to sleep, his eyes were still shining. Her mom saw the wall clock.

"Leon, it's time for bed." gently his mama stroked his head.

"Leon...."

Valerei waited for the sentence to be finished by his son.

"Leon saw the same man."

"The same guy?" Valerie asked confused

"Yes, the same guy with the photo in the book." Leon pointed to the door to the room Valerei.

Photos are in buk---. Valerei remembers, she kept a photo of Darren when they got married. He thinks the photo went missing when Leon found it.

"Where did Leon see the book?"

"Under the bed!"

He reminded me of taking a brown book from under the bed.

"Leon talked to that guy?"

"Yes, he said that mommy's married!"

"Then, who did he say he was with?"

Leon shakes.

"Adults have affairs that their children cannot interfere with. So Leon, mommy doesn't want to hide anything."

Leon nodded, he never thought that it was the truth. The past Leon remembers may have been forgotten by Valerei.

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