Love Knows No Bounds novel (Kendall and Dylan) novel Chapter 447

Emily, Fergus, and Amos were all standing outside Dylan's study. Amos had a tray in his hands, and Emily was tapping on the door of the study while shouting into the room, "Open the door, Dylan. You need to have some food. I'm begging you, Dylan. I promise I'll talk to your grandmother after you eat. I'll tell her to get Kendall to come home!"

Emily didn't like Kendall that much, and both she and Tilly had wanted to chase Kendall out of the house. However, Emily cared more for her son; she had to give in when she knew her son was on a hunger strike just for Kendall. If Emily had to choose between her son's health and Kendall's departure, she naturally valued her son's health more. I can just keep my distance from Kendall if I don't like her. We're not staying together, anyway, Emily figured.

"Open the door, Young Master Dylan. Young Mistress Coleman would be really sad if she knew you were doing this," Amos uttered. He had mentioned Kendall as he knew that Dylan was most affected when Kendall was unhappy.

"Exactly, Dylan. Kendall would feel really hurt if she found out about this. She spent so much effort making sure you got better, yet you're using your own health to throw a tantrum now. You're indirectly ruining her hard work," Emily added to Amos' words.

Dylan heard everything from inside the study, and his gaze darkened at Emily's words. So, Mom does know I've only healed so well because of Kendall's efforts, huh? Both she and Grandma are on the same team, but Grandma's just a little harsher since she used to be in the business industry with Grandpa, he thought.

He wasn't hungry as he still had some fresh fruits, snacks, milk, and bread in the fridge in his study. He had prepared these specifically for Kendall. It was rare for her to enter his study, but she had entered once, so he figured she'd probably enter a second or third time. Kendall liked snacking whenever she sat down, so Dylan had told Amos to prepare some food for the study. He had taken a glance at his supplies, and he estimated that the fruits and snacks he had now could last him for five days. I bet Grandma will give in if she sees me staying in the study for five days without eating, drinking, talking, or working.

Dylan thought about this as he sat in front of his study desk and sketched an outline of his wife's figure. As he continued his sketch, he recalled the baby that came up in Kendall's dream, so he tried to add a baby into the drawing to make it seem like Kendall was carrying a child in her arms. However, he had never dreamt of the said child and didn't know what the child looked like. Kendall mentioned that the baby looked like her, so he tried to shape the baby's features based on Kendall's looks.

Ever since Dylan and Kendall were officially married, he rarely ever had that same dream of his again. I wonder what happens at the end of the dream. Is the baby mine or Frank's? Dylan never once told Kendall about how he had slept with her in his dream.

"Is Dylan still in there?" Tilly's voice sounded from outside the study.

Dylan's expression remained the same as he continued to focus on his drawing of the mother and daughter. After a while, his pencil came to a halt. I miss her! he thought.

"Dylan refuses to open the door, Mom. All of us tried knocking, but he didn't open the door for any one of us. He refuses to drink or eat either," Emily cried worriedly while giving Tilly a rather pleading look.

Tilly gazed at the tray of food in Amos' hands and paused for a moment before questioning him. "Dylan has a fridge in his study. Could there be food inside?"

"Young Master Dylan isn't one to snack on, Old Madam Coleman. The fridge is just for decoration, and it's empty inside." Amos wasn't dumb enough to tell Tilly the truth. He knew that Dylan's strike would be the only chance for him to get Kendall to come back.

Tilly, on the other hand, wasn't suspicious of Amos' words as she knew Dylan's eating habits well. She gazed at the locked door before raising her hand to knock. However, she halted just before her knuckles landed on the door. After a while, she pulled her hand away and turned to Alice. "Help me back to my room, Alice."

"Mom!" Emily cried to stop Tilly. "What about Dylan? Why don't we get someone to bring Kendall back? I don't trust her, but I trust Dylan. If something were to go on between Frank and Kendall, Dylan wouldn't just sit around and do nothing. He wouldn't still be so sweet to her," Emily stated. No one liked being cheated on, and Dylan was an extremely egotistical man. If something had happened between Frank and Kendall, Dylan would have lost it immediately—he wouldn't continue being so fond of Kendall.

"He won't die from one day of starvation. He'll surely come out when he's too hungry," Tilly uttered. She knew she might have gone overboard earlier that day, but she couldn't lower her pride and tell someone to bring Kendall back. Furthermore, even if she agreed to have someone bring Kendall back, would the Parkers allow Kendall to come back? Whatever Tilly had done earlier had already ruptured the relationship between the Colemans and the Parkers. The only way she could get Kendall to come back was for her to go to the Parkers' Residence to apologize to Kendall and bring Kendall back herself. Otherwise, the Parkers would never let Kendall come back.

Are they expecting me to go over to bring Kendall back? Is Kendall worthy of such treatment? Hmph! "But—" Emily started.

"Bring me back to my room, Alice," Tilly uttered.

"But Grandma, Dylan—" Alice was still hoping her grandmother would sympathize with Dylan's situation and agree to have Kendall back in the house. However, Tilly merely shot the younger girl a glare. Alice had no choice but to help Tilly back to her room. Emily's eyes turned red when she realized that Tilly wasn't going to help and that Dylan wasn't going to open the door to his study.

"What should we do, darling? Both Dylan and Mom are stubborn. Dylan is going to starve if neither one of them is going to compromise with the other," Emily uttered in a tearful voice. Fergus wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her close to his chest to comfort her. "Let's give Dylan some time to calm down. He'll come around in the end."

"I'm afraid he won't. With that stubborn personality and bad temper of his, he might really go against Mom until the very end," Emily mumbled.

"Amos, why don't you bring the food back down, for now?" Fergus uttered. Amos quietly went down with the tray after that. Once Amos was gone, Fergus turned back to his wife. "I've said this before. Our son is all grown up, and he has his own way of thinking. As parents, we shouldn't try to control them. We don't even have control over our two sons, who grew up with us. Dylan grew up with my parents, so he was probably taught differently. We have no right to meddle in his matters, especially when it comes to marriage. I've told you about this, but you didn't listen to me, and now Kendall and Dylan are forced to be separated. Everyone can tell how sad they are. Are you happy about this?"

Emily paused for a bit as she felt aggrieved before muttering, "I've listened to you in the end, haven't I? I didn't meddle with their business anymore after that." Fergus simply cleared his throat without saying anything else. He led Emily toward their room with his arm still over her shoulder. "Don't worry. Dylan isn't going to starve. I'm sure he'll eat something for Kendall's sake." Fergus was almost certain that Dylan had food in his study.

Emily had been too worried earlier, so she didn't have a chance to pay any attention to the look on Amos' face. If there were really no food in the study, someone as loyal as Amos would've definitely been more worried than all of them. He would've tried all possible ways to get Dylan to open the door­—he wouldn't have just stood around with a tray in his hands while keeping his mouth shut the whole time.

However, Fergus wasn't going to point out Amos' odd behavior to his wife. He was siding with his son, after all. He was mentally supporting his son's protest against Tilly's actions.