Liam's heart ached as he looked down at the beautiful girl crying, pleading for his help. He wasn't even sure why he was here, it seems that his feet just lead him here and now he was glad he was. He wrapped his arms around her, the smell of lavender and roses engulfed him and he felt, for the first time in weeks, completed.
"Ari," a deep, cruel voice echoed through the mazed corridors, he felt Arianna shake even more at the sound of this malicious voice. 'Was this the person who hurt you?' A question he'd been wondering for weeks, but judging by her reaction, whatever had happened, was far worse than what had happened to him. "Come back to me baby, you know you love me." Loud, solid footsteps were coming closer, Liam pulled her into his chest as he saw a man step around the corner.
Arianna wrapped her arms around Liam tightly, burying her head into his chest, her grip around him getting tighter and tighter the closer he came.
Liam took his loving, sorrowful gaze off her and met the man's malicious glare with a cold, deadly stare.
"And just who might you be to hold my girlfriend?" Julien eyes widen with possessiveness, as he cracked an insane kind of smile.
"Why I'm not holding your girlfriend, I'm holding mine." He pulled her closer. "And seeing how she's running from you I don't think wants anything to do with you Mr Scott." As the moonlight suddenly beamed through a nearby window, illuminating where Liam and Arianna were standing Julien was shocked to see who was holding his woman.
"Liam Clair?" He was stunned, the Clair family and the Richard family had been at war since before they were born. "You can't possibly, be her boyfriend." He smirked, knowing full well President Clair would slit her throat before he let Arianna into his family.
"Oh yeah." Liam smiled devilishly in return, he slightly pulled away from Arianna and pulled one hand from her back to hold her chin and pull her lips up to his. For the last three weeks he couldn't stop thinking about how she tasted, how her soft lips felt meeting his and this time there was no hesitation between either of them. He kissed her passionately, and she returned it, her arms wrapped around his neck, while his arms wrapped around her waist pulling her body so close to his, in the dark shadows of the dimly lit hallway you couldn't tell where one of them end and the other began.
Anger fuelled up into inside Julien, as he ran towards the intimate couple, pulling Arianna away from Liam. "She's MINE!" He yelled, throwing her behind him.
"Arrrgh!" She screamed as she fell back and hit her head on the windowsill. Arianna tried to get up, but her body became weak and she felt herself fade away.
"Arianna!" Liam's widen as he saw her fall unconscious, his gaze fell on Julien with murderous intent. "How dare you touch her!" Liam was fuming with anger, he was ready to kill him, without thinking Liam punched Julien's face so hard, it threw him into the wall and rendered him unconscious as well. A part of Liam wanted to kill him there, but instead he raced over to the unconscious brunette, holding his breath until he found her pulse. He picked her up and carried her down stairs and back to his car, his driver looked worried when he saw the continuous bleeding coming from her forehead.
"Saint Louis hospital now!" Liam yelled harshly, his worried gaze didn't leave her face. Her head laid in his lap, as he brushed her hair behind her ear his white dress shirt was covered in her blood, from where she wouldn't stop the bleeding. He hadn't seen her fall well, but it must have been worse than he thought.
When they finally arrived at the hospital, Liam carried her in to see Dr. Connor Bernard a friend of Liam's from school, while he was still young he was a brilliant doctor and well known within France's medical field.
"Liam, what are you doing here?" The small doctor looked worried at the blood covering his shirt.
"Connor, it's Arianna her head wound won't stop bleeding." Liam was frantic as he gestured to girl in his arms. Connor's grey eyes widen and yelled to the nurse to bring a stretcher, he combed his fingers through his thick, dark orange hair, he didn't know who she was but if Liam brought her here personal, with that much concern on his face, she must be important.
While he was examining her, Liam decided it was probably a good idea to let her mother know where she was. He hesitate though, he knew that party was organised by her mother, so why would someone she's so afraid of be there. As he was debating whether to call Joan or not, he heard Connor's voice call him in. He walking into the room to see the ginger doctor smiling, he was a little relieved.
"She will be alright, her head need stitches, but there's no brain damage of any kind, although the wound was quite deep. However she seems to have relatively thin blood, which is why she wouldn't stop bleeding, but from the looks of her toxin screen, she takes medication for that. So she'll be just fine Mr. Clair, for now she's just sleeping." While the two men had been friends a long time, when they crossed each other's paths professionally, it was a different story.
"Thank you Dr. Bernard." Liam said calmly with a sigh of relief.
"Hey Liam, just who is this girl?" Connor looked up at his friend, he couldn't help but notice the gentle look in his eyes.
"Her name is Arianna Howard." Liam smiled, "She's a friend of mine."
"Okay." Connor smiled as he left, he shook his head in amusement, 'friend, yeah right, you never even looked at your ex-fiancée like that' Connor thought to himself.
Liam finally decided to give Joan a call, he told her where she was and that she was registered under the name Howard, rather than Richard, because he was the person who brought her in. He told her she was doing fine and was asleep, Joan was relieved to hear that she was okay and asked what happened. He told her most of what he knew, leaving out their kiss, and that he knew the identity of the man that hurt her daughter. He promised he would wait with Arianna until she woke up and that's call her the minute she did.
After about an hour Arianna started to stir, she pulled the blanket to her left side exposing her back to him, the medical gown she was wearing had a slit and revealed her back, Liam blushed and tried to look away as he went to try and cover her up, when he noticed a small tattoo on her lower left side of her back. It was a pink and blue awareness ribbon with two little angel wings either side and was similar to the one his cousin had so he knew the ribbon symbolised... A miscarriage.