Summer's tone was a bit cold but her words sent Jessica shivering.
Jessica held Summer's arm and leaned on her lazily. "Summer, you've lived with Leonardo for a long
time, and you're almost as scary as him when you talk."
Summer was amused by her and said, "You are getting more beautiful, just like those tabloids said."
Jessica patted her. When they left the banquet hall, they saw Carl panting.
When he noticed them, he stopped. Tired, he gasped, "How did you all come out ... come out ... Ro..."
Summer interrupted him and said, "Rosie is inside."
"Ah?" Carl looked in the direction of the hall in surprise.
The next second, Jessica knocked her bag on his head. "You can't even look after a child. Didn't
Summer say that you should call if something happens? You should call me if you can't look after her!"
"Ouch!" In public, Carl was well respected and all the female celebrities wanted to piggyback his fame.
However, at this moment, covering his head, he was beaten by a woman.
And he could not hit back.
Summer watched aside for a while. Seeing others coming out of the hall, she pulled Jessica and said,
"Alright, stop."
Jessica's handbag wasn't big, and there was just enough room for a phone, a small mirror and two
lipsticks. It wouldn't cause much pain when she hit him with it.
To mollify Jessica, Carl let her vent her anger.
Jessica indeed calmed down a little, but she felt a little guilty about it before Summer.
"I'm sorry. If it weren't for my idea, Rosie wouldn't have..."
Summer interrupted her, "Don't say that. Rosie is naughty and imaginative. How can I blame you?"
Summer comforted her and turned to ask Carl, "What was going on?"
People came out one after another. Summer signaled Jessica and Carl to talk about it while walking.
"Rosie said that she was hungry, so I wanted to order room service, but she insisted on having
steamed buns, so I planned to take her out ... and..."
He felt embarrassed about failing to take care of Rosie. "There were many people in the elevator.
When the door opened, she ran out with them..."
Normally, Rosie behaved well and would not run around.
Summer was silent for a moment and asked, "Did she want to come out to find me?"
Carl nodded.
"Let's go first." As Summer spoke, she took the lead.
"Where's Rosie? Amber is still using her as a cover!" When Jessica said that, she felt angry and
disgusted, let alone Summer.
"With Leonardo around, it's fine." Just now, Summer noticed Leonardo carefully covering Rosie's eyes
while he was hugging Rosie.
Although Summer and he had never talked about revealing Rosie's identity, they had a tacit
understanding to protect Rosie from the public.
After all, given her current relationship with Leonardo, publicity wouldn't do her any good.
Summer had thought about this before. She felt that it might be because she and Leonardo were poor
at bonding. Both of them wanted to give Rosie the best, and could not tolerate Rosie being slandered
by the public.
Rosie was innocent and pure, and she and Leonardo knew too well that the public couldn't be trusted.
In the eyes of the outside world, Summer and Leonardo had already divorced three years ago, as so
much had happened between them. She had lived with Stanley for some time. Rosie was now a little
over three years old. It was not easy to explain all these together, because anyone could make a big
fuss with just one of them.
Most likely, someone would lay eyes on Rosie. Right now, her priority was to protect Rosie. That's why
she didn't do anything in the hall just now.
As Summer spoke, she had an expression of trust in Leonardo. That soothed Jessica.
The three of them took the elevator and left the hotel. Arriving at the parking lot, Summer took out her
phone to call Leonardo.
On second thought, she called Tim.
"Mrs. Emerson." He picked up very quickly.
Summer asked directly, "Where are you now?"
Tim turned to look at Leonardo. Leonardo was also staring at Tim, as if he already knew it was
Summer.
With his stare, Tim knowingly turned on the speaker and replied to Summer, "We are going to take the
elevator to leave now."
"Tell Leonardo that I'll wait for him at home."
Leonardo could hear her and said expressionlessly, "Tell Summer that I'm not going."
Of course, she heard Leonardo since the speaker was on.
Rosie was in his arms, sleeping.
Summer snorted coldly, "Tell Leonardo that if he doesn't show up tonight, he doesn't need to come
anymore."
Leonardo said, "Tell Summer that I will definitely not go tonight!"
"Tell Leonardo not to come if he dares!"
Tim was confused
Summer and Leonardo were quarrelling over the phone, with Tim as the messenger.
Tim held the phone and had no chance to speak. He could only stand in the middle and listen to the
bickering.
It was a real but monotonous fight.
"Are you really not coming?"
"No!"
Tim silently handed the phone to Leonardo, but Leonardo did not take it.
"Don't give me your phone. I don't want to talk to her."
The next second, she hung up and a beep came.
The hand holding the phone stiffened and Tim turned to look at Leonardo's face.
Leonardo stared at it with a sulky expression, "Did she hang up on me?"
Tim nodded.
Leonardo sneered. The elevator happened to arrive. He pressed the elevator button and walked in.
In his arms, Rosie was half asleep, with her head leaning on his shoulder.
Suddenly, she looked up at Leonardo and said, "Mom."
She looked dopey and seemed to have heard Summer's voice.
Rosie shook her head and looked around, but she found nothing. She looked back at Leonardo with a
puzzled expression.
Leonardo put his large palm on Rosie's little head. With a slight force, he pressed her head back on his
shoulder.
Then he said flatly, "She's not here. You go back to sleep."
Rosie was extremely aggrieved.
She lay on Leonardo's shoulder, pouting, with tears in her eyes. But she held them back.
Her dad was hard on her and she missed her mom.
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