Chapter 1490: 1490. Study hard, make progress every day.
“What’s this about?”
Elly Campbell pointed at Harry Hall’s slightly red-rimmed eyes. Could it be that this guy couldn’t bear to see her leave?
Even though Leo Hall always called her “sister-in-law” and often hung around their place for meals, he sometimes liked to cozy up to Adam Jones to chat.
Even if Adam didn’t pay much attention to him, Leo still went on chatting with relentless enthusiasm.
But despite all that, she still felt it wasn’t likely they had gotten close enough for him to be red-eyed over her departure.
A twenty-year-old young man—separation shouldn’t really leave him like this…
Elly felt she might be overthinking. Then, she heard Leo Hall say:
“You know what? My dad got arrested. I don’t have a dad anymore.”
Elly: “…”
Even though William Hall’s arrest was undoubtedly a major disaster for Leo Hall, his words—”I don’t have a dad anymore”—sounded a little strange to her.
Given the things William Hall did, he was bound to serve decades in prison, but it wasn’t like he’d face the death penalty. How could he suddenly “not have a dad anymore”?
Elly stared at the boy in front of her, his reddened eyes lending him a pitiful appearance. She couldn’t tell if he was faking it or genuinely distraught.
Leo hadn’t done anything beyond bounds in recent days, and since he had risked his life to save hers before, she didn’t particularly dislike him.
Even though she knew his thoughts weren’t pure, she couldn’t quite pinpoint what exactly was impure about them.
If Leo Hall were a girl, she might think his behavior was perfectly suited to those professionally manipulative “sweet but calculating” types.
But when it came to Leo, all she saw was pitiful fragility—no scheming sweetness or hidden darkness crossed her mind.
Ah, it’s true—people are always more forgiving toward the opposite sex.
Elly teased herself silently.
Still, she managed to comfort him earnestly:
“Don’t worry. Even though your dad got arrested, your brother won’t hold it against you.”
She thought that this concern was the most practical thing for their mother and son to focus on right now.
Leo Hall’s lowered eyes flashed with a hint of sinister amusement, though his face remained sincerely open as he looked at Elly and said:
“I’ve never thought about competing with my brother for the Hall Clan.”
Ha! The Hall Clan? Just that? Leo Hall wasn’t as shallow as all that.
But of course, this thought was something he’d never share with Elly.
Elly had no way of knowing the scheming coils in Leo Hall’s heart. The very same words he’d said to her once in the hospital, she’d always taken with skepticism.
Whether he truly didn’t want the Hall Clan was utterly irrelevant.
His father, William Hall, and his mother, Mia Brown, both wanted him to take over.
Elly saw the stubborn determination and sincerity in Leo Hall’s expression and couldn’t bring herself to speak her real thoughts out loud.
“What’s your plan after you go back?”
Elly asked him rather tactfully.
Everyone knew the reality—that Leo had failed to “seize the throne” and now had lost William Hall’s protection—meant the Hall Clan was essentially out of his reach.
Yet, to say that he and his mother would languish in poverty in the future was absolutely impossible.
Not to mention the sizable private wealth William Hall had set aside for them, Mia Brown, being a renowned England pianist, made an income more than sufficient for a lifetime of indulgence.
In her view, Leo’s next steps would likely be nothing more than returning to school, studying quietly, graduating from university, and then deciding his own destiny moving forward.
Or perhaps it depended on how Harry Hall ultimately decided to treat his younger brother.
Leo shrugged and said, “Go back to school, study hard, and make progress every day.”