Dinning room
"Why aren't they here yet?" Grayson asked Petra when both his son and daughter in-law were missing at the dinning room.
"I have no idea." When Grayson raised his brows, petra shrugged. "What? They left the mansion few minutes ago. I'm sure they're going out to do some shoppings."
"Isn't it too early for shopping?" Grayson asked while passing the juice's jar to his side of the table.
Petra glance at her watch, "Uhh--I don't think so. The time says 8:37. That's not quite early to me." She stated before focusing on her meal.
Staring at her for quite some time with a smile on his face, Grayson reached for her hands.
When she stopped eating and stare at him, he intertwined his fingers with hers. Pausing for a while, he sighed, "Now that we are finally back together, can we make it bond forever?"
"Uhh--" Understanding his point, Petra slowly slipped her hands off his. Faking a sarcastic chuckle, she said, "Grayson, can we just have breakfast? The food might turn cold soon." Without waiting for him to say anything, Petra daze back into her meal.
Grayson placed his fork down and nodded, "You don't trust me, right? I thought by now we're going to get along with, but-"
"Come on, what are you saying? Of course we're getting along. We had sex the night before this morning. And I believe being intimate is the only way one can fully show affection to someone you care about." She sardonically chuckled. Because she knew he was heading towards the annoying side.
"To be honest, you're not doing exactly as you've just said, Petra." From his expression, he was getting freaked out. "Fine we had sex but that doesn't prove anything of what we truly feel for each other, Petra."
With the little flames inside of her, Petra annoyingly dropped the fork and retorted, "Grayson, that was just sex and nothing, okay? What exactly is your point right now? Reunite? Yes we've reunite, and what? Come back together as husband and wife?" A scoff let out of her mouth and she shook her head, "No, precisely speaking, if that's your point then my answer is no, Grayson."
"B-But why? We're going far already, almost at the peak. For me the only thing remaining is to win back the hearts of our kids."
"That's for you, Grayson. But for me, am used to living my life freely without a man. Ever since we parted ways, I have to force myself to get used to it." Seems like she felt his heart stopped beating for a second and the world stood still without orbiting.
Her words was a bit harsh but she didn't stop ranting her guts out. "It's hard for you to understand but you have to try. You made me become this, right? So you can't blame me. It's over twenty years now. I'm used to carrying responsibilities on my own without asking for help from anyone. So you can see how hard it is for me to fully trust or go into love moods again."
Pausing for a while, she continued, "Okay, I know we've finalized the whole sceneries and we found out that it wasn't your fault but Grayson, this is just my personality right now. W-We just can't come back as one and if we could, my heart won't seen to give in fully."
Feeling heartbroken, Grayson nervously asked, "Are you going to break up with me?"
"Well, to start with, we aren't in a relationship, right?" Tuckling a strand of hair behind her ear, she took a deep breath, "We can still stay as friends. I mean the intimate ones, yeah, but we won't fully come back as partners." Without waiting for him to say anything, she stood up, "Please excuse me. I already lost my appetite." And left. Leaving him sad and solitude.
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Lorena's place
Outside the mansion
Heading towards the mansion when he saw his mother walking out all dressed and keen. "Seems like you're going out, dear mother?"
Lifting her head from what she was searching in her purse, Lorena startled, "L-Liam, what are you doing here, son? Aren't you supposed to be in prison?"
Raising his brows, "Prison?" He laughed and brush his nose's tip, "Not surprising to me that my own birth mother could say such dangerous words out of her mouth."
Pointing the car key at him, Lorena gritted her teeths, "Listen, if not that I have somewhere important to go, I would have asked the guards to deal bountifully with you." She made her way towards the red Bugatti Chiron.
Reminiscing her statements with a weird tone, Liam scoffed and turned towards her, "The same guards who had fucked you on my father's bed?"
Lorena who had started unlocking the car's door, stopped midway and turned around, "You're fatherless."
Scoffing in pity, he walked towards her with both hands tucked in his pockets. Darting his eyes into hers, "I'm fatherless because you made me, Lorena."
"Don't you dare call me by my name, Liam." She gritted her teeths.
Running his fingers through his hair, he took a deep breath, "I think it's better high time I tell the whole world how you murdered my biological father cold blooded and dump his pieces of body into the ocean. What do you think?"
"Make a move about that and you won't live to see tonight." She threatened.
Liam burst into a loud laugh while clapping his hands, "Horror, isn't it?" Leaning closer, he narrowed his eyes, "Listen, do whatever you like, am not afraid of you. But the fact that am keeping quiet is because of my new family."
"What sort of fucking family is backing you up, Liam?" She mocked.
"For your own information, dear mother, I am a dad." When Lorena raised her brows, he added confidently, "Mabel isn't dead as you wanted and we both had a five months old son."
Lorena got froze for moments after hearing that shocking news.
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