Chapter 109: The Nail In The Coffin

༺RAYNE༻

We've been seeing about that, all right. Weeks have passed and I thought Liam was going to get over his guilt or whatever demons that drove him to push me away, to ask me to leave. But no, this has continued for weeks, with no signs of stopping.

He’s tried almost everything in his book to make me leave, from silent treatments to harsh, hurtful words. But each time I held my ground. And then, he decided to do something really unexpected: he started making himself unavailable to me.

Whenever I tried to touch Liam, he would dodge away from my touch as if I were carrying a plague. It was as if I had suddenly become invisible to him. He would spend most of his days in the study—a place I’m no longer allowed to go to—locked away, working on God knows what.

But I kept persisting and stole a kiss from him when I managed to catch him in the hallway that led to our bedroom one morning. I snuck up on him, pressing my lips against his in a soft, delicate kiss. For a split second, I fe