With Joshua discharged, there was no longer any point in Leonard living across from the hospital. Ste and Joshua were staying at the Williams Manor, an area almost entirelyposed of the Williams family''s private estate, which left Leonard with no opportunity to spy on them there.


    But if the manor was off-limits, the corporate world was not.


    The building opposite The Williams Group headquarters offered plenty of high-rise offices. Having been dismissed from his position, Leonard had nothing but time on his hands. He instructed his assistant to purchase a floor with an excellent vantage point directly across from their building.


    Ste and Joshua had to work, meaning they spent more time at the office than they did at the manor.


    Aurora, meanwhile, was finding herself at her wits'' end.


    She was doing her best to mend her rtionship with Leonard, and while he wasn''t giving her the cold shoulder, his requests were getting stranger by the day.


    First, it was cooking for him, and now, out of the blue, he was asking if she knew how to prepare medicinal broths.


    Making therapeutic cuisine required a certain degree of medical knowledge; it wasn''t something one could master by watching a few videos or looking up recipes online.


    It demanded precise control over heat, strictbinations of ingredients and herbs, and an understanding of which elements might counteract each other. Most importantly, brewing these broths took at least three hours, time Aurora simply didn''t have.


    When she expressed her difficulty, Leonard didn''t press her. Instead, a few dayster, he asked if she could assemble ''Dawnlight.''


    His demands grew stranger by the day, and Aurora was beginning to feel the strain. She had to admit, Leonard had a real talent for tormenting people, and he was probably going easy on her.


    One day, when Aurora went to see Leonard, she found he wasn''t home.


    She called him. "Leonard, are you not home today?"


    For the past while, he had been home almost every day, so his absence was unusual.


    After a few seconds of silence, Leonard replied, "I''m not living there anymore."


    Aurora was surprised but figured it made sense. His prosthetic ear and mechanical arm had been fitted, and his body seemed to have fully recovered, so there was no need to stay near the hospital Did you go back to the Lerman estate? I cane see you there."


    "I''m not staying at home right now," he said.


    Leonard owned many properties, so this wasn''t particrly strange.


    "Then where are you staying?" she asked.


    "Across from The Williams Group headquarters."


    Aurora paused, taken aback. "Leonard, what are you doing all the way over here?"


    "The view is nice," he said simply.


    Although she found it odd, she didn''t


    overthink it the area around The Williams Group was known for its beautiful scenery and was a popr spot for sightseeing. It was understandable that Leonard might want a change of pace after everything he''d been through. "What''s the exact address? I''lle find you."


    Leonard didn''t refuse and gave her his new location.


    Ste''s birthday arrived quickly. It was only then that Abby Murphy learned about Keen''s kidnapping and Joshua''s severe injuries, which hadnded him in the hospital for a month. Looking at Ste''s thinner face Abby''s heart ached with Sympathy Star, why didn''t you tell me something so huge was happening? I might not have been much help, but I could have at least


    helped out at the hospital with


    Joshua, taken some of the burden off you."