Chapter Forty Seven: The weight of the truth

*Vivienne*

Silence.

Silence now seemed to be the only thing accompanying me these days.

Maybe it was because I felt dead inside ever since that night.

The night I told Liam my deepest, darkest secret.

I could vividly remember the way he froze, his eyes widening as he just stared at me.

He didn't utter a word. He never did. Because the exact moment he opened his mouth to talk, his phone began to ring and a few moments later, he had to leave the country to shoot his new TV series.

I remembered tossing in my bed, unable to sleep even after I had thrown some sleeping pills down my throat. Then after, I cried and later ended up sleeping that way.

I glanced at my phone and stared at the dark, blank screen. I wondered what he thought of me now, would he see me as a murderer now?

Technically speaking, I am a murderer but somehow, the thought of Liam viewing me that way made my heart ache.

For the briefest of moments, a tingle of regret reverberated in my chest, maybe I should have hel