Dusk In Moorea

HR#29

Leon stepped his feet carefully up the stairs leading to his room on the second floor. He was afraid that his father would arrive early and would question Leon about where he had been today. Of course, Leon was avoiding it. It could be bad if Duke Xander finds out that he's been with Arumi, his favorite Asian girl all day.

Arriving in a room that seemed so dark, Leon looked for a light switch near the entrance. Turned on the lights in the room until bright in an instant swept the luxurious bedroom.

"Daddy ?" Leon was surprised not to play. The reason, the person he had been painstakingly avoiding since was in front of him. Sit so relaxed on the sofa at the end of the bed.

"Where have you been ?" Duke Xander's voice sounded flat but was able to shake fear in Leon's deepest depths.

"Walk with Jane, Daddy. Didn't Daddy tell me to take him for a walk a few days ago ?" Leon smiled, trying as much as possible to make up a story that Duke Xander could believe.

"You think Daddy believes it ?" Duke Xander's gaze drew sharply on the son's chocolate bead.

"I mean, Daddy ?" Leon's wringing is starting to get bad. If his prediction was correct, his father would have known that he was lying.

Duke Xander opened the brown envelope he had been holding. The same envelope, which was given by his spies to follow Leon.

"What is this ? Explain to Daddy !" Duke Xander said, scattering the contents of the envelope on the floor.

Photos of Leon and Arumi having lunch and throwing jokes at each other at the restaurant they had come to were strewn across Leon's room floor. The brunette-haired young man looked so shocked. His steps retreated backwards with both hands firmly clenched.

"Dad, this ...."

"Daddy told me not to see that Asian girl again. Why are you so stubborn, huh ? You want to embarrass Daddy in front of Jane's family ?" Duke Xander's anger was no longer able to control the man. His face was reddened by the emotions that had reached the crown.

"Dad, what's wrong with Leon being friends with Arumi ? She's a nice girl and never asked for anything from Leon." Leon gave a defense.

"Did you say ? It's bullshit ! There was no such girl with a social status as low as her. That Asian girl just wants to use you, stupid boy !" Duke Xander yelled at it because his son was standing up for the lowly girl.

"Dad ! Don't say that about Arumi." Shouted Leon back to snarl. His whole body was vibrating in a blanket of adrenaline that made him fight the father for the first time. Something he could never do as a child.

Duke Xander laughed in disbelief. " How dare your tone of voice be higher than Daddy's ?" Duke Xander said in such a low tone.

Leon gave a rough breath. "Sorry, Leon didn't mean it, Daddy !"

"Do you love that Asian girl ?"

Duke Xander nodded his head while standing up. His re-carrying looks calm, although Leon more than just knows that his father is already furious.

"So, that Asian girl's already affecting your brain. What moves does he wear so you can be tricked by him ? Tell Daddy !"

"Arumi didn't do anything, Dad. From the beginning I was chasing him. In fact, in this matter only I'm in love while she's not." Leon shouted in despair.

It hurts to have to uncover the fact that Arumi still can't accept her feelings even though this has been their fifth date. In fact, Leon is already very confident to get Arumi. He even gave a surprise by blowing up fireworks at the Eiffel Tower while expressing his feelings. However, what he did was all in vain. Arumi still can't accept Leon.

"Do you know how I feel ? All my life, only this time I feel heartbreak, Daddy ! I thought I could share with Daddy like a boy in general who would share his life with their father. But, Daddy actually scolded me just because I fell in love with an ordinary girl and not the daughter of a respected person ?" Lirih Leon endured her heartache.

"Remember, Leon ! You're not the son of an ordinary man. You're it...."

"Son of the noble, the descendant of the nobility who is displeased with the people ? Is that what Daddy wants to say ?" Leon's eyes started to look puffy. He occasionally looked up, so that tears that had never been spilled in front of the father since the age of 5 years did not fall now.

"Dad, if I could choose, I'd rather be a normal person. I don't care about our family title. I don't care about our background. Why would I have all that if I couldn't determine my own way of life ? Since I was a kid, who I hung out with, it was Daddy who set up. In fact, the woman who will be my life companion, Daddy who determines without asking if I want to or not."

"That's all because Daddy cares, Leon ! Daddy doesn't want you to regret your decision someday."

"liks. This isn't for me, Daddy. It's for Daddy himself." Leon screamed desperately and hurriedly left his father. Her tears have already spilled. And, Leon didn't want his father to see that at all until anytime.

"Leon, wait ! Daddy's not done talking." Call Duke Xander who is completely ignored by Leon.

Duke Xander let out a long sigh. He was confused to react how in the face of Leon's attitude that suddenly changed. For the first time in history, his submissive son dared to defy only a woman of unclear origin.

"It's all because of that Asian girl." Furious Duke Xander with clenched hands.

Leon ran indiscriminately until he finally entered a room located at the west end of the mansion. A place full of paintings and many romance and romance novel books neatly arranged on carved wooden shelves in the corner of the room. Leon locked the room so no one could get inside.

Afterwards, the brown-eyed young man shed his body on a brown leather sofa and sobbed alone there. His hand moved to grab a picture frame located on a round wooden table next to the sofa. At the door of the picture of a woman who looks smiling while holding a toddler aged approximately 4 years who also laughs no less cheerful.

"Mommy ! Leon misses Mommy. Please, come and comfort Leon even in a dream, Mom. Please ! Leon desperately needs Mommy right now. Please, Mom !" The young man, who is now curled up and sobbing grievously hugged a photo of his long-dead mother when Leon was just 5 years old.