Won’t Let Her Go
“Welcome!”
The beautiful and tall ladies at the reception of Prix Bar simultaneously gave Amelie a warm welcome
and bowed respectfully when they saw her.
Amelie smiled lightly as she asked casually, “Is Mr. Alston still here with his friends?”
“Are you looking for Mr. Alston?” One of the receptionists went to her, judging her warily. “May I ask
how you are related to him? Do you have an appointment? I’m afraid that I can’t show you to him if you
don’t have an appointment.”
“That means he’s still around?” Amelie gasped in surprise.
However, the receptionist took her surprise wrongly, thinking that she was here to hook up with Leo,
and she sneered, “Of course, he’s still here, but he won’t meet just anyone randomly. You should call
and ask him to send someone out here to take you in.”
On the other hand, Amelie was so anxious that she didn’t even notice the sarcasm in her voice and
asked instead, “Did they order any alcohol?”
“Yeah.”
This time, even the other receptionists assumed that Amelie came with an ulterior motive. “Mr. Alston
can drink very well and doesn’t get drunk even after finishing a few bottles. Today, he only ordered four
bottles, which is less than half of what he usually orders. So, you shouldn’t have any weird designs on
him.”
“Exactly. I think you should hone your skills and cultivate some proper talents before trying to approach
him.”
These receptionists had seen too many tricks from the women who wanted to approach Leo, and they
readily assumed that Amelie was one of them.
In fact, Amelie didn’t really want to meet Leo because she had planned to leave if he didn’t indulge.
Yet, when the receptionist told her that he already had four bottles, the alert alarm inside her head
blared loudly, and she started storming inside.
The receptionists were about to call for security when they saw that she was going to force her way in
when Eugene happened to come out of the room.
“Miss Dillon!” At the sight of Amelie, the light in his eyes shone with pure, unabashed gratitude as
though he had met his savior. “You’re finally here! If you’re just a minute late… Mr. Alston might really
knock the life out of himself with the drinks.”
“Why is he acting this way?” Her eyes flickered as she tried to ignore his fervent gaze and asked, “Why
isn’t Melissa here?”
“Well, you know Madam’s personality… All she cares about is herself. She won’t be bothered with what
Mr. Alston is up to, but even if she does intervene, he won’t listen to her, anyway,” Eugene answered
straightforwardly.
No one knew the situation between Melissa and Leo better than Eugene, who was also the most
helpless about it.
“Furthermore, the guests today are special, so I can’t advise against his course of action directly, but he
refused to listen to me even after I hinted at him. So, all I can do is… Worry.”
While he was explaining the situation, they had walked off quite a distance away, leaving the
receptionists in bewilderment.
Did Leo’s assistant regard that woman as an important guest? What did it mean? Earlier, did they just
try to stop someone they shouldn’t offend? But there was nothing particular about that woman besides
having a pretty face.
By the time Eugene showed Amelie to the VIP room, the people inside were already done drinking. A
few well-dressed men came out in groups of twos and threes, chatting, smiling, and chuckling happily,
and Eugene hastily went to see them off one by one.
None of the men noticed Amelie, thinking that she was just another waitress, and one of them patted
Eugene’s shoulder and said, “Eugene, Mr. Alston can’t hold his drink today. He’s already drunk after a
few drinks. We’re going now, leaving him in your care.”
As Amelie didn’t want to attract any attention, she lowered her head just enough not to seem like she
was utterly ignoring everyone because they were all senior shareholders of Genesis. Back then, when
Leo just took the reins of the company, they were very supportive of him, and as a person who values
loyalty, Leo couldn’t find it in himself to turn them down when they asked him out for drinks.
“Sure, just leave him to me,” Eugene answered, sending them off respectfully.
When they had cleared out of the room, Amelie looked through the window into the room. The curtains
were not drawn, and she easily saw a man’s figure under the dim lighting.
At that moment, he slumped sideways on the couch, and even though there were warm yellow lights in
the room, they couldn’t hide his ashen complexion.
His palm rested on his forehead feebly as though he was uncomfortable, and even his brows were
tightly knitted together into a look of agony.
Suddenly, he sat up and started coughing, and his body swayed and trembled violently as he hacked
his lungs out. It seemed as though he would topple over anytime!
Amelie instantly dashed to him and held him without hesitation. “Are you alright?”
She wanted to lecture him, but when she remembered that they weren’t related anymore, she shut her
mouth and only stroked his back to ease his discomfort. Then, she poured a glass of water from the jug
and handed it to him. “Here, have some water.”
Leo slowly raised his head and swept his cold gaze over her face, and she raised the glass of water in
front of him awkwardly, signaling him to take a sip.
All of a sudden, she felt a force behind her back, and he pulled her into his arms the next second.
Everything happened so abruptly that it caught her entirely unaware, but she was quick enough to
move the glass aside to avoid spilling the water on him.
As a result, their bodies were tightly pressed against each other.
So, she stiffly held the glass and squirmed uncomfortably, calling him, “Hey, Leo.”
She merely moved a little, and he immediately tightened his arms around her like a piece of metal,
suffocating her with his hug.
She could hear his rugged breath right next to her ears and feel the abnormally high temperature of his
breath against the skin of her neck.
She raised her head to take a look at him and immediately noticed that his face was also exceptionally
red.
“Mr. Alston has a fever!” Eugene pointed out.
As Amelie’s body was pressed tightly against Leo’s, she could clearly feel how feverish he had
become. “Let’s take him to the hospital,” she said urgently, and Eugene came over to help her carry
Leo.
They each had Leo’s arms as they positioned him in the middle and dragged him into the car. Once
they placed him in the backseat, they immediately drove to the hospital.
“What happened? How can you allow a patient with such injuries to drink?”
At the hospital, Eugene and Amelie were reprimanded harshly by the doctor. Eugene could only
apologize repeatedly with a look of dismay while Amelie remained expressionless throughout the
doctor’s dressing down as they sneaked glances at Leo from time to time.
“We’ll lower his temperature with medication,” the doctor said after a round of reproach and quickly
wrote a prescription for the nurse to retrieve from the pharmacist.
Finally, the doctor left with a few parting warnings, and the nurse returned soon afterward with the
medication, blushing as she tried to feed the medicine to Leo.
However, she had barely touched him when Leo shoved her aside angrily, and the medication in her
hands splattered around.
“Get lost!”
“Miss Dillon, will you please feed him the medication?” Eugene requested with a pained look. “The
drunker he is, the harder it is to get close to him.”
At first, Amelie wanted to turn him down, but when she saw his puppy eyes, she nodded in resignation.
“I’ll give it a try.”
“Thank you.”
Frankly, she assumed that Leo would push her away. She thought that she would have an excellent
excuse to leave if he really did so.
But the truth was, Leo was very cooperative; every time she gently urged him to take the medication,
he would open his mouth without protest.
Eventually, she couldn’t leave as she sat on the bed and placed an arm around him while feeding him
his medication, rightfully worried that the liquid would spill everywhere if she didn’t. Therefore, she
coaxed him to finish the medication sip by careful sip.
The nurse standing beside them watched the scene with burning jealousy in her eyes. She couldn’t
stop herself from scrutinizing Amelie because she was curious about what was so charming about that
woman that attracted Leo even when he was semi-conscious and drunk.
On the other hand, Amelie’s entire focus was on feeding the medication, and she was unaware of the
nurse’s spiteful glare. When she was done, she breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that she could wash
her hands off him now.
So, she cautiously placed Leo on the bed and slowly sneaked off the bed, looking around for Eugene at
the same time so she could bid farewell to him later.
Then, she saw Eugene in a call outside the room and placed her foot out to take the first step. Alas,
before she could even set her foot firmly, she felt her hand being gripped tightly.
She twisted her head and saw that Leo had gotten ahold of her wrist with his hand without her knowing,
and she stole a look at his face. He was definitely out cold as his eyes remained closed, and he didn’t
seem like he was going to wake up any time soon, but his hand that held her wrist tightly refused to
release her.
“I’m sorry, Miss Dillon. Can you please help me to take care of Mr. Alston? I just received a call saying
that the children at home… Well, we have a situation.” Eugene paced over anxiously and waved the
cell phone in his hand, anxiety written all over his face. After he spoke, he even took off without even
waiting for Amelie’s response.
She stared at him, utterly mute with shock as he thought, this one refuse to release me while the other
just left me. What else can I do?
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