Lily's POVI woke up from the bed, trying to stretch my body as I felt very tired. It was exhausting, all the activities we went through yesterday—after fighting and making up so many times in the day. Matteo and Isaac almost got into a fight yesterday, and I felt so anxious seeing the both of them.I don't hate Matteo, and I understand why he's doing all of this, but sometimes I think he doesn't understand boundaries or what he's supposed to do. He's taking things too far. He said he needed to talk about something yesterday, but why do I feel like he wanted to make trouble out of it?I witnessed Isaac apologizing to me yesterday, which isn't part of his character. He's been too warm these days that I can't help but wonder if he has always been like this and has just been concealing it. How much more do I not know about him?But I can't help thinking about the fact that he did those things in front of me once. After seeing that side of him, I never thought he would be this nice. Shoul
Lily's POV What is this? I kept staring at the screen of my phone with shaky hands. It's hard to comprehend what's right in front of me now. At that time, I saw Issac coming back and my first instinct was to hide the phone. I hid the phone behind me as soon as he got closer, and he looked at me suspiciously. Why am I hiding this from him when I should be confronting him about it? But I'm still in shock, and I want to be sure what I'm saying is the truth before anything else."I already took Ayla to the class. What's wrong with you? You look pale," he asked me.I shook my head, trying to form a smile. "There's nothing wrong with me. Maybe I'm too tired. I think I need to go now."I started going in the opposite direction, forgetting that I came with him, but he quickly dragged me back."What is wrong with you, Lily? Let me drop you off at the office. Why are you running away?" He sounded pissed."I think you should go your way and let me go to the hospital on my own. Come to think of
Lily's POV "What?" He asked as if he didn't hear what I said. I scoffed, "I think you heard me. I want to break up with you. Just leave me the hell alone since you only care for yourself." I was trying so hard to hold back my tears, but it's not something easy for me to do, especially seeing the way he was desperate when I’d already found out the secret he was hiding from me. He’s not supposed to hide things from me at all. Am I mad at the fact that he didn’t tell me the truth, or the fact that his father is responsible for my misery?"You can’t do this to me, Lily. Are you suddenly going to date him now that he told you the truth?"How does he even know who told me the truth when I haven’t said it was Matteo who gave me the information in a matter of a few seconds?"I don’t know who you’re talking about, but this is about my parents. If you have any human feelings left in you, you should get out of my way and never come back."I thought he was going to continue being stubborn and
Lily's POV My daughter's in danger! It's so hard to believe he's going to do something like that to his own daughter just to get my attention. Even if he wanted to act crazy, doesn't he know the limit of acting crazy?I'm not going to forgive him for doing this to me. How dare he use my daughter as a tool to get my attention? I always told him never to do something like that, and now he's doing it. Even after knowing that I'm the victim, he pays no attention to the fact that I wanted to be alone. He only cares about himself.How did I even bring myself to fall in love with someone like him, knowing how super selfish and annoying his actions would always be to me? My heart felt like it was going to jump out at any moment as I kept imagining the worst-case scenarios that could happen to my daughter.I called him with my phone on my way there, but he wasn't picking up. This made me so angry that I screamed, and I almost bumped into another car. I had to swerve away to another direction,
Isaac's POV "Are you going to tell me what's going on or what?" Henry asked after I left the living room to my study. I almost forgot he was also involved in this, and I don't even know how I'm supposed to tell him everything. He's also a victim of this, and I've been hiding it from him for a very long time."Is it hard to explain to me? Could it be that she's the one causing problems between the both of you, and you don't want to implicate her? You don't have to defend her in this situation; just tell me what is going on," he stated."You probably won't be supporting me if you know what happened," I told him.Maybe telling him the truth would be the best thing, so I can finally get this off my chest. He's a good friend who has done a lot to try and raise his sister after they lost their parents, thanks to my father. And now, he has to find out that I've been the root of their problem all along."Then tell me what happened! She's refusing to say anything to me, and I feel like it's
Lily's POV I sat on the bed, adjusting the sheets on my daughter. She's the only reason I'm here right now. I needed a lot of time to think about the entire incident, and I didn't have enough time. When I got up from the bed, I bumped into Isaac and almost fell on my back, but he quickly grabbed me by my waist and raised me up.I got his hands away from my body. "I'm not going to thank you because you sneaked up on me. Seriously, don't you have anything better to do than to bother me?"I moved away from him and started heading for the door. I could hear him following me, but I didn't want to talk to him. I just wanted to be anywhere but with him. Why can't he just understand that?"Lily, can we talk, please? I know you don't want to see me right now, but I promise you I'm not going to bother you anymore after this," he begged me, as I got out of the room."You have a few minutes to talk about what you want to say," I said and headed downstairs to the living room.Once we got to the l
Lily's POV "You're unbelievable! I can't believe you'd do something like this! Do you even care about our parents?" I fired at him. "I do!" He yelled, "I do, okay? But I care about you more. You're all I have left." I sneered. It's ironic how I feel like I'm the only one he has left, yet he does everything to hurt me. I feel like he's doing all of this to defend Isaac instead of avenging our parents. This isn't how it's supposed to be. Am I even supposed to be surprised? Since he decided to hide this from me, it means he also tried to bury this issue when he's supposed to be the victim in all of this. I can't believe this is my brother. Is something wrong with his head?"How can you do this to your own sister? You kept me in the dark for so long, and you're still defending him. Are you adopted or something?""I'm not adopted. I'm sorry for hiding it from you. I was just waiting for him to confess it to me, but you found out already," he replied."You're unbelievable! What was the r
Lily's POV He went to get me a cup of coffee and sat down beside me on the bed. I cried for a while and he just let me do it. I know he probably doesn't understand why I'm acting so weird right now. I'm also embarrassed that I let my feelings get the better of me. "Why did you cry Lily? Can you finally tell me now?" He asked me worriedly. I sighed, "I'm okay, I just... I found out everything you've been hiding Issac. Why didn't you tell me?"He looked away like someone that has just been caught cheating and he refused to say anything. How hard must it have been for him to have kept this hidden? Should I have kept quiet and not talk about this at all? "I'm sorry, Lily. I don't know what else you found out, but it's all my fault, and I should have told you the truth," he stated.I scoffed. "It's not even your fault. You were also a victim. Your father did the same thing to your mother that he did to my parents. Why are you trying to hide that? Why didn't you just tell me?""It's not
Chapter 106Lily's POV I've been awake for the past few hours, staring at the ceiling and not moving. It's not yet morning, and I just suddenly woke up. I need time to process everything that happened to me yesterday. I've been thinking about it all along, and I can't believe that Matteo would go that far to do something like that to me. I trusted him so much and saw him as a friend. I didn't think that he would go this far just to show that he wants me or not. To be honest, I never thought of us ending up this way. I always thought we would be friends, and even though sometimes it felt like he was showing me signs, I thought it was just out of friendship. I stood up and went into the bathroom. Then I went downstairs. I didn't have much to do, but I started cleaning without being told what to do. I still had a lot on my mind. It's not easy for me to forget that Matteo and I used to be so close, and now things have gotten bad between us. He almost assaulted me yesterday, and he w
Issac's POV "Let her go right now!" I roared across the room and it echoed. I couldn't stop the anger I felt inside while looking at him trying to touch her. She clearly didn't want him to touch her, but he kept trying to force himself on her. It was good enough that I got all the messages that Lily left for me earlier. I was too busy because I had some important things to take care of, and I didn't want Lily to find out, so I had to switch off my phone and also asked my assistant to do the same. I didn't think that anything would happen because I had my men watching over her, and they would have told me of any movements on an emergency phone. But they still didn't tell me anything, so I thought everything was okay. However, when I switched on my phone, I got all the messages from her, and the last one I got was that she was going to look for our daughter at Matteo's place. I quickly got the idea that Ayla was taken by that bastard, and I wasn't wrong. I moved closer to him and
Chapter 104Matteo's POV I knew this was going to happen the moment she arrived, and I had already prepared myself for it. It's not the first time she's slapped me. After the time I kissed her at the hospital in front of that constant, I knew she had every right to do this. But it hurts me enough and makes me angry to think that she doesn't even want to look at me at all, and all she can ever think of is that bastard. This was the only way for me to get her attention since she has been avoiding me after I told her about what he did to her parents. "How could you do something like this? I trusted you so much as a friend, and you dare try to cause problems for me? I was so scared the whole day, and I was so worried, yet you couldn't tell me that my daughter was with you?" she fired at me angrily. But I didn't say anything else and just tried to hug her. Even though she was trying to break out of the hug, I still forced myself to hug her, and then I let go. She slapped me again, a
Lily's POV What's Susan doing right here in my office waiting for me like she's my patient? I was told I had a patient waiting for me in the office and I was expecting it to be someone else. I couldn't hide the shock on my face especially after seeing her looking pitiful on a wheelchair. But I should focus and not let her deceive me with this. I should know the kind of person she is better than anyone. I know she has plans that I'm not going to allow happen anyways. But I need to find out whatever she's thinking. "Why aren't you saying anything? Do you hate me that might?" She asked like she was offended. I scoffed, "I know you're not here for a good reason Susan. What the hell are you doing here, pretending to be a patient and wasting my precious time? I have real patients to attend to.""What makes you think I'm not a real patient?""Isn't it obvious what you came here for? You think I have time to waste on you rather than attending to people who need my help?"She looked offend
Susan's POV How did he manage to find out something that I've been trying to hide from him all along? I tried so much so that he wouldn't know at all. Even though it was hard for me because he was always watching me. I regretted trying to give his information out at the end of the day after seeing what he did to me. I didn't mean to contact his enemy at first. We are the ones who came after me while telling me the hard and offer for me and it would help me get his trust. I thought they wanted to do something to help me until I started giving them information and I started suspecting that it was wrong. That's how I managed to know that they were trying to find ways to bring him down and I was giving them information for it. When I try to confront them, they only threatened me and told me that they would tell him everything if I didn't cooperate with them. If they will be able to bring him down, then I wouldn't have to be scared of him. At first I thought it would be a good idea sin
Isaac's POV I knew I was going to have to answer this sooner or later. I thought she would have forgotten about it, but she seems to still be very much interested in knowing what happened. It's hard to explain everything that happened, as what went on between us is a secret, but I'm going to tell her anyway. "Are you going to tell me or not? The way you keep quiet means that there's something you are hiding," she questioned me. I shook my head quickly. "I'm not hiding anything. I'm just wondering why you are so interested in this since I already told you that we settled it." She looked at me suspiciously and then nodded. "I know I'm not supposed to be asking you this, but I still want to know because he was acting so weird today. Not that he hasn't always been rude to me, but he seems too happy for someone who got an apology. Did you have a deal with him?" Her questions suddenly made me think about everything—how I managed to settle this matter between us. FLASHBACKAfter f
Isaac's POV Fuck this! How does she even know that? I'm very sure I instructed everyone that she mustn't find out what was going on. Who could have told her this? No wonder she has been so quiet and acting strange with me. I just couldn't take it anymore. She was so good with me this morning, and now she was acting strange. It turns out that it was because of this nonsense. I'm going to deal with whoever told her this, but first, I need to find out how much she knows. "What do you mean, why did I lock Susan up? Why would I lock her up? I'm very sure you must have gotten the wrong idea," I told her, trying to deny things. But she shook her head like she couldn't believe what I was saying. "You shouldn't lie to me. I already know everything. I know you've locked her up ever since the incident with our daughter at the hospital, and you didn't let her go. She's already lost her legs—don't you think it's too cruel to lock her up without giving her freedom?" I could see that she was
Lily's POV Am I really listening to Susan's voice, or is someone else pretending to be her? Could it be that this is a prank? There's no way she would be calling me for help. No matter what happens to her, I know she hates me to that level—unless I'm involved in what is going on with her. But what exactly is going on? I can't seem to comprehend. "Are you sure you're really Susan? What is going on? I don't understand anything that you're saying. Can you just elaborate? Where are you, and what does this have to do with me?" I questioned her, hoping for more answers. I only heard her sobbing, and it strongly made me feel guilty. I still didn't know what this was about, but she seemed like she was in danger. "Since you were able to call me, can you just tell me where you are?" I asked her again. "I'm locked up by Isaac because of what happened to your daughter. I kept telling him I had nothing to do with it, but he won't believe me. You also don't believe me, right? You asked him
Lily's POV I had to take care of him all through the night. I can't believe he decided to hide this from me. What if I had not come in time? And what if something else had happened to him? What would I have done? I will not be able to explain that or say this to anyone. He's very annoying, and I don't even know what to do with him. But thankfully, I'm a doctor, and I can take care of him. He finally got better when it was getting closer to the morning, and I decided to get some sleep. I'm very tired from working at the hospital. I had to call the housekeeper to take care of Ayla yesterday because I couldn't come home to her. I'm sure she will understand if she knows I came to take care of her father. I lay down beside him, and soon enough, I fell asleep. I don't even know for how long I slept, but when I woke up, I still found myself on the bed. I decided to stretch myself; however, my body felt strange. That’s when I decided to look around and also at myself. I almost jumped w