Chapter 87: Chapter 87

Rose gave up her hand stirring some seasonings she had just put into her Fried rice as the doorbell rang.

"Jude you can open the door and see who is coming" Rose cried at the housekeeper who works for her, but when that bell came back Jude still didn't make her come to put the spatula she had held so long, still in her apron she rushed to see who was impatient enough to keep ringing the doorbell.

But the next second when the door opened wide, it revealed someone that rose had never even thought of standing in front of her house, making her forget for a moment how to breathe.

"If I may come in" until Leo lets out his voice cause rose to blink a few times before nodding, rose then brings Leo to the living room of the humble home he has been living in all these years, Rose still remains silent, not knowing what to say about Leo's sudden arrival, while Leo flees his gaze around the house as if he were searching every entry in the rose house.

The "home sweet home" Leo says, now staring at Rose, again jolts rose from her reverberations, but later she tries to normalize herself again trying to focus on Leo's sudden arrival to meet her. it concerns something important.

"What do you want to drink? "Asked Rose has finally begun to regain control of herself.

"Whatever it is, I will drink it" Leo made rose finally go back trying to call her.

some unknown housekeeper's assistant a few hours ago who didn't show her nose.

"I'm sorry I'm in the back so I don't hear the mother's call" she answered when she understood the look of rose.

"Make a cup of coffee with a little sugar" Rose said to Leo raise his eyebrows, but it turns out that his stepmother still knew the habit of drinking his coffee, but Leo didn't take it much longer and would immediately say where he was coming to meet her.

"I know you didn't come just to see how I was doing" rose made Leo nod his head.

Leo didn't actually know where to begin, his awkward relationship with rose was one of the reasons for not knowing where to start the conversation, and now Leo is hesitant about what to do with the stepmother, If he had previously felt he should be wary of rose, but after rose introduced him to alana, as well as some alana's explanation of how she loved him, and never held a grudge against him, even though he hadn't been so kind as to treat his stepmother.

"I want to talk about alana," Leo said, finally getting rose to take a more serious look.

"So he told you about it," rose said, in a way, leaving Leo a little disappointed because of the fact that alana trusted him with her over herself.

"It was because someone had sent this video to me, perhaps if the person had not sent alana into his silence and secrecy," Leo blurted out in his cold tone, making rose understand how disappointed Leo was, but she couldn't be so involved in alana's decisions that she could have stayed back and helped him from behind, Even at this point, rose is still trying to unearth whatever was behind alana's horrors, although she has yet to find a point of light.

"What do you mean by the video someone sent? "Asked rose, intrigued by Leo's earlier explanation, Leo said, and then pulled out his phone and showed me the number that Leo was currently tracking, rose grabbed it and looked at the content of the video that Leo had received so that rose would shoot her eyes in disbelief.

"This must be the part of the video the perpetrator made of alana, no way alana did anything like this, did she tell you how painful the moment was"The words rose that made Leo speechless even Leo remembered the look in his wife's eyes when he told her every detail of the terrible events that had happened to him, how was it possible for Leo to forget them, that Leo would remember them so that he could remember the actions of the perpetrator that had so far been able to breathe free air, Leo's anger was fueled even more, imagining that the savage who had touched his wife was still out there on the loose.

"I will not forget how alana put it in my heart, so I came here to ask about alana's confession," Leo said, leaving rose silenced, as though the young man who was still considered a child had not been willing to call her mother when Leo was accepted in his family.

Rose was reminded of the good old days when young Leo complained to her about the kids who used to upset her at school,But mother's call seems very awkward for Leo to say at the moment, leaving rose able to breathe her long at least with Leo seeing her only.

"I haven't found anything yet. you know, not that there's not much a middle-aged woman like me can do, with connections not as powerful as yours, I wanted alana to tell you, but I couldn't force her to understand the feelings alana felt."

"But now it's a good thing alana was honest with you, so it might be a little easier to find out who did it," rose said, making Leo think the same way even now that Leo had some detectives and his people track down the number that sent the video and also check the CCTV for the bakery,

"I hope everything can be resolved quickly so alana doesn't suffer too much longer," rose said, making Leo look at his stepmother, who was so clearly concerned about his wife, Leo didn't know whether to thank her for putting him in touch with alana.

But it seemed that his tongue was too heavy to say thank you, the awkwardness between them was still too strong for Leo to respond, and Leo was about to resume his voice and suddenly his phone rang so that Leo would pick him up when he saw one of his hired men.

"How did you find it? "Leo asked, prompting rose to take part in the conversation between Leo and his subordinates.

"We've had a bit of progress on the case" Leo's men said that Leo's men were somewhat relieved to breathe because at least he had a piece of the puzzle ready to be made to reveal who was behind the atrocities his wife had endured.