Summer burst out laughing since she rarely saw Leonardo lost for words. She buried her head on his
chest, her laughter muffled. Leonardo just watched her laugh at him, his face darkened.
After a while, he seemed to be annoyed and spanked Summer, "Stop laughing!"
Summer looked up with her bright and watery eyes, her cheeks flushing red, "Now will you admit that I
can do what you can't?"
"You're being unreasonable!" Leonardo's voice was cold, but it could be seen that he was not getting
angry.
Summer raised her eyebrows, "You are irrational!"
Leonardo squinted and said threateningly, "Say it again?"
Summer wouldn't say it again, because she knew it would get her into trouble.
She looked around the room and carefully asked, "Where is Rosie? Is she ... alright?"
She had wanted to ask this question before, but she was a little apprehensive.
The fire back then was extremely strong, so she was really worried that Leonardo would be too late to
save Rosie.
Leonardo became serious upon hearing Rosie's name, "She's fine."
When he rushed into Rosie's room, he discovered that the fire hadn't spread to that room. However, it
was full of thick smoke.
If he was a little later, he might not have been able to see Rosie alive.
Luckily, Rosie was smart and directly hid in the bathroom when she realized something was wrong.
After Leonardo found her, he tore the sheets to make a long rope and tied it to Rosie's waist and put
her downstairs from the third-story window.
She was just a little kid. Although she didn't know what happened, she was afraid at the sight of the
thick smoke.
Leonardo still remembered that when he put Rosie on the windowsill, she paled in fear and pleaded
with her eyes.
She was scared and didn't want to jump.
Though Leonardo knew her fear, he still put her downstairs without hesitation.
The sheets could only carry the weight of a child, so Leonardo returned by the way he came.
However, there was no need for Summer to know about the dangers in this process.
Summer trusted Leonardo the most. Since he said that Rosie was fine, Summer believed him.
"Then where is she now?" Summer wanted to see Rosie now.
"I had someone send her back to the Hoover City that night," Leonardo replied.
Summer remained silent for a moment and said, "That's good."
Country M wasn't a safe place, so Rosie had better stay at the Hoover City.
"As long as she's fine, I'm relieved." Summer felt that she owed Rosie too much.
They fell silent.
After a while, Summer said to Leonardo, "Leonardo, I'm serious. I can't go back with you. I have to
come to Stanley. I want to help you find out why he hates you so much."
"Summer!" Leonardo gritted his teeth and said, "Do I need a woman to take risks for me?"
Summer was too impetuous.
She raised her voice and said seriously, "I know you don't need it! But I want to help you. I love you. I
don't want anything to happen to you. I want to help you! Do you understand? I want to help you!"
She said "I want to help you" a few times in a row.
Leonardo averted his gaze from her.
He was silently rejecting her proposal.
Summer knew that she couldn't convince him, so she struggled desperately when he attempted to
bring her back.
After a long time, Leonardo's voice sounded, "What if Stanley knows that you're tricking him? Have you
ever thought about what he would do?"
"He won't find out!" Summer said with certainty.
"What if? What if he finds out?" Leonardo said, "He will definitely torture you by all means!"
Summer naturally knew this.
Therefore, she could only succeed.
"Leonardo, trust me!" Summer held his hand and looked at him expectantly.
How could she convince him that she could really protect herself?
Leonardo held her hands tightly.
Summer even didn't dare to tell him that Stanley wanted to use her to save Bendy.
Bendy was seriously ill. If she had to undergo a transplant operation, both she and Summer needed to
recuperate to ensure that the operation would be done when they were in the best physical conditions.
Therefore, Summer knew very well that it was both safe and dangerous for her to stay by Stanley's
side.
Stanley had to protect her since he wanted to use her to save Bendy.
The danger was that she didn't know when Stanley would take her organs out of her body and
transplant them into Bendy.
She didn't dare to tell Leonardo about it.
He already disagreed with her taking the risk.
If he knew these things, it was absolutely impossible for him to allow her to return to Stanley.
Leonardo did not say anything. He got out of bed and put on his coat, walking to the balcony.
When he was about to reach the balcony, he turned back halfway and got a coat for Summer.
The heat was on, so Summer only wore a thin dress.
He threw the coat on the bed and then went to the balcony.
Summer held the coat and looked towards him. Then she got up and put on her coat, walking over to
the balcony.
Outside the balcony was the dark night with sparse lights.
Leonardo was holding a cigarette between his fingers, with his back to her.
There was a piece of ash in the cigarette. Just as the cigarette was about to burn his finger, he seemed
to regain his senses and flicked it. Afterwards, he put it into his mouth and drew heavily on the
cigarette.
He wasn't a smoker. Summer stood quietly by the door for a while and wanted to leave.
Since Leonardo left early with her at the banquet, Carl and Jessica might also leave. Therefore,
Summer decided to see Jessica.
Just as she opened the door, she heard Leonardo's tense voice from behind her, "Where are you
going?"
Summer turned around and saw Leonardo striding towards her.
As he walked over, he directly reached out to close the half-opened door.
Summer looked at the closed door and said helplessly, "Aren't you smoking on the balcony? I'm going
to meet Jessica."
Leonardo frowned and asked, "You don't care if I smoke?"
"It's fine. Anyway, you don't smoke often." Summer knew he would smoke a cigarette or two when he
was upset. He had no addiction to cigarettes, so Summer wouldn't stop him from smoking.
"Then I'll smoke every day from now on," As Leonardo spoke, he took out another pack of cigarettes
from his pocket and lit one in front of Summer, putting it into his mouth.
He took a puff on the cigarette and blew out a smoke ring at Summer. Then he sandwiched the
cigarette between his index finger and middle finger, asking seriously, "Won't you stop me?"
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