“Intéressant”

Leon shrugged his shoulders, “You know the answer don’t you? Yes, they did. Maybe in your entire family, everyone knew except you.”

Belle bite the insides of her cheeks, “Is this your way to mock me?”

“Hardly,” Leon responded, “I am enjoying to see you move forward from your naive self. You always think that everyone is kind, that the world is kind, but you have to know, they aren’t.”

“Teaching me a lesson?” Belle looked at him, she couldn’t feel his sarcasm despite his attitude that had been rubbing her wound with salt. “I don’t see how beneficial this is for you. Me being naive would help you to manipulate me more, don’t you agree?”

Leon took a step forward and her breaths tightened. She watched him took another step and desperately try to maintain her distance, causing her back to be pressed by th