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“If you are planning to go to that banquet then you need to find a suitable patner that is far better than Tristan”.
Leah jumped , nearly dropping her phone when she heard Isabella's voice behind her , she turned around to face her, isabella was sitting up with half of the blanket on her shoulders.
“Well wish me luck, because I doubt I will be able to find a man like Tristan, he is one of the wealthiest man in the country” Leah sighed throwing her phone on the couch .
“I'm sorry for waking you up, was my conversation that loud?” Leah tried to change the conversation.
She picked up the broom and went back to sweeping the floor
“Its fine , I'm just a really light sleeper, and besides who can fall asleep when they hear your mother's loud voice” Isabella scoffed.
Leah laughed at Isabella's words, she felt very lucky to have someone like her as her friend.
Isabella stared at Leah as she did the chores, she really had changed from the woman she used to know before she suddenly disappeared.
From a young age she had been drilled on how to become Tristan's support, how to help him manage his multi- billion corporation , how to fill his position when he is absent, how to be his perfect wife.
All of her training and endless nights of sleep deprivation was completely shattered, Tristan had pushed Leah to her lowest for a random woman he happened to fall in love with.
After Leah was done with the chores she made dinner for herself and Isabella , Who left after because she had to prepare for a shoot the next day.
Leah cleaned up the mess in the kitchen showered and retired into the private office she had in her apartment , she enjoyed staying in the office it always felt soothing to her for unknown reasons.
While keeping herself busy with some work she unknownly fell asleep, and as always found herself stuck in a nightmare.
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Ring
Ring
Ring
Leah's phone went off in the morning, waking her from the nightmare she was experiencing , in her tired state she reached for the phone.
Without looking at the caller id she picked the call, “Hello” she greeted her voice laced with heavy exhaustion .
“Leah are you just waking up?” The aged voice of a man came from the phone, it was her grandfather Elliot Montague, the voice immediately snapped Leah of her trance .
Despite the fact that her grandfather couldn't see her, Leah still sat up straight, “Yes , im just waking up”.
A low chuckle could be heard from the other side of the phone , “My dear its one in the afternoon, its not good to sleep that long, i hope you didn't fall asleep from excessive drinking?” though his voice sounded harsh, their was a bit of warmth beneath it.
“No of course not, I promised I will stop drinking didn't i?” She picked up the wine glass that was filled with water lemon on went to the kitchen to place it in the sink.
“But I haven't been completely perfect, I actually drank lemon water out of wine glass last night,” the moment she finished speaking she heard a loud laughter coming from her grandfather.
“What did she say that is so funny, put me on speaker I want to laugh as well,” Leah heard another voice, it was the voice of her grandmother, Naomi Montague .
“Is that grandmother,” Leah asked.
“Yes it is your grandmother, she wants to talk to you but I won't give her the phone , she can call you with her own cellphone, and as long as it's not wine Im fine with whatever glass you drink from” Her grandfather replied.
She could immediately hear them bickering among themselves, and it brought memories she didn't want to remember back to her mind.
“You didn't have lunch yet did you?” Her grandfather's words brought her out of her thoughts.
“No grandfather, I have had anything, Why do you ask?”.
“I'm going to the office soon, why not come to the restaurant Infront of the office, let's have lunch together” he suggested
Leah already knew he wasn't inviting her for only lunch, he probably has something to discuss with her, “i’d love to grandfather, let me go take a shower and get dressed, i will inform you once have arrived at the restaurant”.
“Alright chid, goodbye” he hung up the phone.
Leah got up and got dressed she knew if she was going to do the restaurant at his office ,she might end up having to go to the office with him, so she decided to go with a more corporate outfit.
She left the house and went straight to the restaurant, on getting out of the taxi she immediately attracted onlookers attention
The restaurant was a famous one especially among socialite of the city and given her recent reputation she was well known a among the socialite of the city.
Leah was dressed in a white blouse, dress pants , and she was holding the latest hand bag, even though she had falling down the chain, she hasn't lost her elegance and grace.
Leah already knew she would meet some familiar faces so she had ecided to leave them speechless with outfit, the only problem was the fact that she stepped out of a public transport.
“What a shame ,with all those expensive outfits she still stepped out of a peasant car”
“Exactly, just who dies she think she is , wearing the lastest clothes when all her cards have been blocked”
“I wonder how she was able to afford them, who knows they might actually be counterfeit products”
Leah heard all the gossips from the socialite women , but she decided not to pay an attention to it, she kept her head forward and walked straight into the restaurant, skipping the long line of people waiting outside.
“Ma’am do you have a reservation” the attendant at the front counter asked her, she was extremely polite to her, because just from Leah's dressing,
she could easily judge she came from a very wealthy family as the hand bag she was carrying cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and it was a limited edition, only a handful of people were able to get it .
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