Chapter Thirty-Eight

Leonardo

Rylee looked distraught. Her parents looked worse. I had never set my eyes on them after giving them money for Rylee’s surrogacy. For some reason, I never visited them. Rylee had never brought them to the mansion and whenever I asked her about them she would wave it off. I had no idea she went through a lot. I must have been an asshole for dragging her out of the life she was used to but they never seemed to have a parent /daughter connection.

From the way she treated them, I knew they never had a good relationship. I had no idea what broke up their bond whether it was the surrogacy or they had an awful relationship before that. I must have contributed to Rylee's hate towards her parents. I bought her from the life she was used to and they never gave her the support she needed. The first instinct to find out who they were, would have been when they collected money in place of their daughter. Looking them right in the eye? I could tell they never used the money wisely. They r