Despite her words, she treated him better than me. It was like she wanted to raise a little brother all over again. Everything she didn’t have time to give me, she gave to him.
Toys, watches, luxury things—whatever Leonhart wanted, she bought it. In only two years, she spent tens of millions. That was the money she earned by working herself to exhaustion. Many nights she had to go to business dinners, drinking until she threw up, then continuing to drink again.
I felt sorry for Renata, really. I always told her to stop spending so much, but Leonhart hated me for that. That's when he hid the watch under my pillow, then cried to my sister and said I stole it.
My sister became furious and punished me by making me kneel in the rain and admit my mistake.
“Our Dad would be ashamed to have a son like you! He lived as an honorable soldier and I have always lived honestly. Why are you acting like our mother, Rein? She stole and ran away with our family's money!”
“Have I ever let you go hungry? Have I ever not given you clothes? Why would you steal?”