Love Wins Over Lust novel Chapter 21

"I heard you just now, you were begging Ethan to save you and I want to know from what? What's going on here?"

Aurora shook her head. "Nothing is going on here Susie…"

"Enough Aurora," She snapped. Then she took a deep breath to calm herself. "Look I am not trying to interfere in your life but I can see you are not happy and I want to help you."

Aurora glanced at her father. "No one can help me, Susan. Not until dad gets well."

"Are you kidding me? One phone call to Thomas and he…" she stopped and eyed her. "You are hiding something Liam did, right? You married him suddenly and now you are protecting him!" She stepped closer to Aurora and raised her chin.

"Is he treating you well?"

Aurora couldn't stop the sob she was trying to hold anymore. Her eyes swam with tears. Her eyes went to her father once again, she touched his hand and poured her heart to her friend. "He is my worst mistake, Susie. You told me that Gabriel is a narcissist who wanted to control me but Liam is worse. He caged me. He never loved me, never, it was all a lie. He used me, he used me to get his hands on Dad's business."

Susan's eyes widened in horror. "Aurora…" she whispered, Aurora sobbed.

"I went to surprise him but instead I got the shock of being tagged as a stupid girl. He don't even respect me as a human being, all he cared about was his business. I thought I would surprise him but he was mocking me with his brother."

"Ralph?" Susan questioned.

"Yes," she wiped her tears. "I told him I won't marry him. I challenged him and broke our relationship but when I went to Churchill, my life turned upside down. Someone attacked dad and he was on the deathbed. Liam was the only one who could have saved Dad so he blackmailed me to marry him. He made me beg on my knees to marry him. I never felt this much humiliated in my life, Susan. He not only stole my life but he destroyed my self respect in my eyes. Even now if I tell…"

Her heart stopped. She had told her everything, she broke her promise to Liam. What if he comes to know about it. What if he harm her father, these were the only thoughts that ran in her mind. "Susan, please don't say anything to him. Please, don't tell anyone about it. He will harm dad. He will harm dad…" She kept repeating the same thing again and again.

Susan shook her hard. "Aurora! Stop it. He will not harm you or Ethan. He can't do anything. He is just scaring you."

"No, he can do anything. He warned me when he gave me my phone back."

"Gave you your phone back? What's that supposed to mean?"

"He locked me in his room after our marriage and snatched my phone from me. The day I talked to you, that's when he handed me the phone back and that's because I pretended to still love him."

Susan Kelly was shocked hearing Aurora. What had her life turned into? What kind of man this Liam is? And Ralph knew about it, still he didn't stop his brother. Susan was not able to believe her ears.

Her eyes fixed on Aurora who was crying softly, as if trying to stop her sobs from getting out of the room. She swallowed and touched her shoulder. "Do you want to leave him? Leave this place?"

Aurora only stared at Susan. She was numb in the mind, not able to think even of the possibility of it. "Tell me Aurora?"

"What about dad?"

"Nothing will happen to him, I will tell Thomas about it once he comes to know about it, everything will be fine. Liam will not be able to blackmail you anymore."

Aurora shook her head, before she could say anything the door of the room opened and the doctor entered. Aurora wiped her tears, "Good evening, Mrs Knight."

"How is dad recovering, Doctor?" She asked, her heart calmed a little when the doctor informed her that her father was recovering well. She had heard it from Liam and Thomas but hearing it from the doctor had calmed her anxious mind.

Once the doctor left, Susan squeezed her hand, "don't think about it, we will handle it together."

Meanwhile, Liam was losing his mind. Ralph's words kept hitting his ears. "I want to meet her."

"You can't."

Liam interrupted his father glaring at him with anger filled eyes. "I didn't ask for your permission father. I am telling you that I want to meet her, so call her here from whichever hell hotel you have hidden her all these years." Ryan tried to say something but the look in Liam's Eyes stopped him.

"Consider it an order from your boss, dad," saying that he walked out of the place. He recalled the soft smile on his mother's face. That was the only thing he could remember about the woman who gave birth to him. He fisted his hands tightly to keep his mind cool but Ralph's words about him being alone kept ringing in his ears.

He never feared being alone but today, his heart heated even the possibility of living without his wife, his Aurora.

When he reached the hospital, everything was same as he left. The guards nodded at him in greeting when he opened the door of Ethan's room silently and found Aurora starting at her father with Susan sitting beside her, consoling her.

"I just want him to talk to me like before, Susan. I am dying every moment seeing him like this…" she whispered and her shoulders shook a little. Liam knew she was crying and he hated it. He walked further and both the girls turned their heads hearing the sound of footsteps.

Aurora stiffened seeing Liam. Her heart started beating faster in fear thinking he had heard something. Susan could patter her hand, telling her without words to not worry as he had not heard anything.

"Liam…" she stood up but before she could speak any further he pulled her into his arms. "You will not leave me ever, Little one. I won't allow you to leave me, ever."

She stiffened in his arms. "Tell me you won't leave me, Aurora."

She shook her head. "I won't...I won't leave you, I promise I won't."

Susan had enough. She crossed her hands to her chest. "She will leave if you keep her unhappy, Liam."

He turned his haze at Susan, "excuse me!"

"Don't be angry, I am just stating a fact, look at her face, she has lost all the color. I have never seen her like this. The Aurora I know used to be happy, she used to do shopping and eat ice creams when she gets sad but look at her, she is doing nothing like that, she had lost charm. She looked depressed, why didn't you take her out if she is not going anywhere Liam. She can't remain home all her life."