Leah's relationship had failed and she was at a low point in her life. However, her results spoke otherwise. Contrary to her expectations, she had received the best results in class and even received a first-class scholarship.
Leah had all of the legal provisions memorized by heart. It was as if she had been born with the knowledge ingrained into her system.
She could recite each and every law in the book one by one.
However, she no longer went out, nor did she care about her book's ending.
During the winter break, she received a phone call from Victoria, "Hey Reaper, I got someone to revise the ending for you. They wrote an additional 20000 words for the ending!"
"Really? That's so many words! Is that the completed ending?" Leah asked.
"Not yet. They told me that they could write even more," Victoria told her.
Leah was secretly in shock and muttered, "They must really like the story. I presume that they want to write a different ending?" "Aren't you curious about how they wrote the ending?" Victoria asked Leah coyly.
Leah smiled and replied, "Since you've called to inform me about it, I assume the person is a top tier writer, am I right? If they're that good, I'm sure that the ending they wrote for my book is pretty impressive."
"You caught on quickly!" Victoria laughed, "Oh, Reaper, you have some really loyal fans, do you know that? The writer who wrote the ending for you told me that they wanted to give you all the credit!"
"They want to give me credit for their work?" Leah was a little surprised.
And here she thought that people who wrote books would only do it so that they could earn money.
Leah couldn't help herself from feeling surprised when she found out that the writer who wrote the alternative ending for her book did not want any money for it.
"That's rather strange. Is the person not short of money?" Leah asked.
"The person said that they're your biggest fan. They started reading your book from the very beginning, so they feel deeply attached to it. They didn't want the couple in the book to have such a bad ending, so they volunteered to rewrite the ending for you. They insist on giving you all the credit."
"I don't want it. I haven't earned any credit since I wasn't the one who wrote the alternative ending. The writer should be the one to reap the benefits of their own labour. You should tell them that. Speaking of which, I'd like to check out their writing. Have you published it?" Leah asked.
"I'm calling to ask for your opinion on it, actually. I'll put it up once you give me the green light," Victoria admitted coolly, "To be honest, I think the writer's a man."
"A man?" Leah exclaimed in surprise, "How is that possible? How can a man imitate another woman's writing style so well? Surely there has to be some discrepancy."
"Exactly! That's how I could tell. If it was written by a woman, I wouldn't have called you in such a rush."
Leah was truly surprised. She thought that this fan of hers was a little odd. He had written something that managed to catch Victoria's eye. Hence, the man's writing must be really impressive.
"I don't really care if the writer's a man or a woman. As long as you think it's good, you should just publish it," Leah didn't really care about the book anymore.
In fact, she had already given up on it. She did not care who would resume the book and how the story had unfolded.
All Leah wanted to do was get her lawyer's certificate and get a well-paying job in a lawyer firm. She wanted to become a strong, independent working woman. At the same time, she had other plans to further her studies as a graduate student as well. Her dream was to either become a really successful lawyer, or a professor at a university later on.
Those were her future plans.
For that to happen, she had to work on her studies first.
When Victoria noticed that Leah did not sound excited, she sighed, "Alright then, I'll send you the draft. Take a look at the first few words. Get back to me after that, alright?"
"Alright, sure thing," Leah mumbled.
After Victoria hung up the phone, she sent the draft to Leah.
Just as Leah was about to click on the document, she received a call. When she saw that it was from an unknown number, she did not think much of it and answered it without a second thought.
Hogan's voice was instantly heard, "Leah, I'm downstairs. I really want to see you. Can you come down to meet me?"
Since the security system had been upgraded, Hogan could not enter the building at all.
"Hogan?" Leah asked in shock. She did not think that Hogan would call her using another number after she blocked his previous number.
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