CHAPTER EIGHTY
Liam pulled out of the hug, and he saw that Timothy’s eyes were a bit teary. He wiped his tears away, and assured him that his mother was really alright.
After that heartfelt father-and-son moment, Liam told Ella to take Timothy inside the house, and he went back inside the room to meet the doctor.
“Doctor…” Liam started saying, but the doctor’s sigh stopped him. The doctor turned around, and he adjusted his shirt before opening his mouth to speak.
“She is in a coma right now.” The doctor said casually, and Liam watched the doctor with wide eyes.
He couldn’t believe his ears.
Alyssa is in a coma? He asked himself, and the look on the doctor’s face just confirmed his question, his worst fear.
That was the worst news that he had heard in a while, and he was afraid that he probably wasn’t ready for it. He wasn’t ready to lose Alyssa, and face the reality of killing her with his bad behavior.
Liam knew that Alyssa being in a coma was as good as her being dead, that’s why he was worried, scared, and… feeling really guilty.
He was feeling really annoyed, irritated, disgusted and unhappy with himself.
“I caused that, I fucking did.” He screamed, when he was finally alone with his Alyssa. He moved to the wall behind his bed, and he hit his fist on it.
He continued doing that, until his knuckles started bleeding. Even with that, he still wanted to continue.
Liam hated himself at that moment, because he knew that Alyssa was in that state because of him, and his cruel words.
Only if he had listened to her, then she wouldn’t have been in that position.
The situation is actually really ironic, because it’s Alyssa that convinced him not to commit suicide, that actually made a huge attempt to do that.
Before he left the room, he sat down on the bed with Alyssa, and he gave her a very light kiss, apologizing to her for everything that he did to her.
He spent the rest of the day ignoring everyone, and walking around the house. He didn’t even have a drop of water, talk more of having a morsel of meal.
The thoughts of how to wake Alyssa, and bring her back to him flooded his mind, and even with that, he still didn’t know what to do.
Hours later, Liam was tired of walking around aimlessly without achieving anything. So, because of that, he decided that it was time to resign to bed, even though he was sure that his eyes wouldn’t even blink at all.
He went back to the house, and he went straight to his room, without saying a word to anyone.
Alyssa was still on the bed, with her eyes tightly shut against her skull. It had been only a day, and she already looked pale… and not alive.
Liam sat on the bed, and he took her hands into his and kissed the fingers one after the other.
“I’m sorry, Alyssa. I’m sorry.” Liam whispered to her, and he gave her a tender kiss on her dry forehead.
After that little moment with Alyssa, he got out of the room, and he went to his study to pass the night, since Alyssa was in his room, and he didn’t want to inconvenience her by staying there too.
He went to the sturdy, and he passed the night there. The next morning, he ignored all Ella’s knocks because he planned to stay in his study until whenever he was ready to talk to anyone.
When he saw that the things that he needed to clean up, and get ready for the day were not in the study, and couldn’t even be done there, he moved to another room that was meant for the guests.
He didn’t do anything in the room, except over thinking everything. The things in his head were too much to just keep in, so he was about to go crazy.
His mouth didn’t touch any food for several hours, and even that day, he wasn’t interested in eating anything.
The rest of his day went by really fast, and before he knew it, he was going to bed on an empty stomach again.
He repeated that same routine for the next five days, and on the sixth day, he was already tired of staying away from the world, but at the same time, he had no interest in going out.
In the one week that he isolated himself from everyone, he didn’t take up to seven meals, and even with that, he wasn’t hungry.
When he was sure that nobody was around the room that he was in, he got out of it, and he started walking to his room, to see Alyssa.
He silently opened the door, and he wasn’t surprised to see her in the same position that he had left her the last time he saw her.
Liam was relieved to see that the workers had been helping her to change, and clean up, just like he ordered them to.
He spoke to her for a while before he went back to his new room, to continue isolating himself from everyone.
A day later, Liam woke up to some knocks on his door. He wondered who the person could be, and just like he predicted, it was Ella.
She told him that she just wanted to tell him that Ryan and Tiffany were back from their honeymoon, and they wanted to see him immediately.
On hearing that, A loud hiss escaped from his mouth, and he settled his back on the pillow to think about his life.
Hours later, Ryan went to Liam’s new room, and he also knocked on the door, thinking that Liam was going to listen to him.Exclusive content from NôvelDrama.Org.
He didn’t.
Ryan and Tiffany decided to wait till dinner time because they were sure that by that time, he might just have their time.
“Don’t you feel like something is wrong?” Tiffany suddenly asked Ryan, when they were unpacking their luggage.
Ryan stopped what he was doing, and a huge sigh escaped his mouth. He told Tiffany that he had been noticing too, but he just decided to keep it to himself.
He was even thinking about why Liam was in another room, but nobody told him why.
Together, they made the decision to ask Liam during dinner, because they were so worried about everything.
When it was time for dinner, Liam finally decided to go outside his room, after isolating himself from everyone for a week. He went to see Alyssa first, before he started going downstairs.
He went down and Ryan was really happy to see that he really came to meet them. They sat down at the table, and Ryan and Tiffany asked for what’s troubling him, and what exactly is wrong in the palace.
Liam sighed, and he continued staring at them without saying anything.
Just when he was about to answer, Ella brought Timothy in for dinner.
Ryan and Tiffany were so shocked to see Timothy, and when they noticed that he wasn’t with Alyssa, his mother, they immediately asked Liam where Alyssa was.