Surrogate for the Alpha Prince in a Coma novel Chapter 237

Chapter 237

Lillian’s POV

“What’s going on?” I asked him.

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Looking at me, he schooled his face back into a blank slate. “I was just walking. I didn’t mean to wake you.”

“I was already awake,” I said. Something was clearly bother him. “Come in, let’s talk.”

He hesitated for a moment, but when I opened the door more, enough for him to enter, he nodded and accepted, a hint of relief in his eyes.

Entering the room, he came and we went to the couch, sitting down beside each other. I smooshed the blanket I had been using up against one side, out of the way.

“The kids are asleep,” I said. “We’ll have to keep our voices down.”

He nodded.

I waited, but when he didn’t start speaking right away, I prompted. “Grayson. Please tell me what’s going on.”

He swallowed hard. “You saw the state of my father.”

“Yes,” I said and my heart ached at once for him. My own father had been terrible for most of my life, but my mother had been sweet and kind. I missed her every single day. I had thought the worst thing that could have happened was losing her. Seeing Grayson’s father, I wasn’t so sure that was true anymore.

“He returned to himself today, just for a few minutes, in part. He remembered me, but saw me as a boy. He spoke of my mother as if she was alive.”

Grayson spoke steadily, his body rigid and stoic, but I knew him well enough to know that he was hiding. Lifting a hand, I placed it on his arm.

“I’m sorry,” I said.

“I’m not. Not for that moment. It was so nice to talk to him like the way that it was, even if we had to do it through a filter of twenty years in the past. He said he heard my mother calling for him.”

“Grayson…”

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