Wings of Broken Time by Alina Das 429
Chapter 429
“Finley, hold on,” Leopold said, his voice urgent. “I’m taking you to Larissa. F’ll beg her to give you the antidote.”
He carefully laid his brother down in the back seat before jumping back into the driver’s side, buckling his seatbelt, and speeding toward the Judson estate.
Thirty minutes later, Leopold was carrying Finley on his back at the main gate. He remembered that they had returned their key fobs when they moved out, so he had no choice but to shout at the guards inside. “Open the gate and let me in!”
The guards recognized him as Leopold, the former second young master, and the man on his back as Finley, the eldest. But they also knew that both had been cast out by Kiernan
Judson.
They ignored him.
“I said, open the damn gate!” Leopold roared, his frustration mounting.
One of the guards gave him a cold, dismissive look. “Without orders from Mr. Kiernan Judson or Ms. Larissa Judson, we can’t let you in.”
Leopold kicked the iron gate, the clang echoing in the quiet night, but the guards remained
unmoved.
He fumbled for his phone, intending to call Larissa. But as he held it in his hand, a wave of
shame washed over him. He didn’t even have his own sister’s number saved.
He felt a pang of regret so sharp it took his breath away. But he couldn’t just stand by and watch Finley suffer. He shook his brother gently. “Finley, do you have Larissa’s number?”
With the fast of his strength, Finley managed a nod. “In… my phone…”
Leopold quickly found Finley’s phone, used his brother’s thumbprint to unlock it, and scrolled through the contacts until he found Larissa’s name. He dialed, only to be met with an automated message: The number you have dialed is not in service.
She had blocked Finley’s number, too.
Of course she had. They deserved it. All of it.
A gut–wrenching cough wracked Finley’s body, and he spat out a mouthful of blood before finally succumbing to the pain and passing out.
“Finley!” Leopold cried in terror.
Out of options, he carried Finley back to the car and sped toward the nearest hospital. Even if
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they couldn’t cure the poison, maybe they could give him something to dull the pain until it passed.
The next morning, Larissa woke up and scrolled through Twitter to see if Lucius’s scandal was still trending. The video of him and Jagger was gone, completely scrubbed from the platform. Instead, she found herself and Leopold at the top of the trending list.
Apparently, close to midnight, Leopold had posted an update.
[I’m sorry. I was wrong. Larissa, my dear sister, I will spend the rest of my life protecting you and making it up to you. I will never let you be hurt again, even if it costs me everything.]
The post was accompanied by a late–night selfie of him standing outside the Judson estate gate, the shadows and light playing across his face to create a look of heartbreaking anguish.
The fans who had stuck by him through the “gala dress incident” immediately flooded his post with messages of support.
[Oh my god, my heart is breaking. Leopold truly knows he was wrong. I hope his sister can forgive him.]
[I heard it was all that adopted sister’s fault. She manipulated everyone. Leopold was deceived into hurting his real sister. But this post shows he’s serious about making amends.]
[I hope his sister forgives him!]
[I hope his sister forgives him!]
[I hope his sister forgives him!]
Larissa just stared at the screen. She felt nothing, not a flicker of pity. If anything, it was laughable. Who was this performance for? Was he trying to use public opinion to pressure her into forgiving them?
How shameless.
After getting ready, she went downstairs for breakfast with her stunning mother and handsome father.
“Larissa, did you see Leopold’s Twitter?” Sapphira asked with a sigh.
Larissa took a sip of milk. “I did.”
“It’s ridiculous,” Sapphira said, shaking her head. “He talks a big game about being sorry and wanting to make it up to you, but all he’s really doing is trying to sic his fans on you.”
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