Sweet Divorce

Snapped out of muse, Rita looked confused. “What are you doing here?”

Why is he here?

The astonishment in her tone somehow rendered Liam in bitterness.

She doesn’t want to meet me, he thought.

Let her go, give her the freedom that she wants, he once thought. But that decision lasted no longer than just a few days.

That’s why he came here today, to have a pretext to see her.

But he could only hide all the feeling he felt for her deep in his heart no matter how he pined for her.

His expression was customarily cold. “To visit Mr. Brown.”

“Oh…”Rita replied curtly and made way for him.

“How do you feel, Mr. Brown?” Liam walked to Noah’s bed and piled the supplement he bought down on the floor. Gently, he asked. “The doctor said that you mean to check out? But you are not fully recovered yet.”

Though he and Rita had divorced, Liam still treated Noah the same.

More or less, that moved Noah. He talked to Liam casually. “I have been here for over a month. It’s boredom that I suffer now, not pain.”

“But…”

“Don’t worry, Liam. Noah’s much better now. He’s out of any danger, big or small.”

Zoe said, intending to console Liam.

Liam stopped persuading Noah since they both insisted going home.

“I’ll go see why Ted hasn’t come yet.”Rita announced as she tried to leave the ward.

But Zoe halted her when she had just taken one step. “Don’t. He must be stuck in a traffic jam now. It’s going to take him some take to get here.”

“Well, then…”

“Maybe Liam can give us a ride?”

Zoe finished. Her suggestion stunned Rita.

Mom, what are you doing?

I divorced

saw what her mother was trying to do, smiling; she tried to talk Zoe out of doing so. “Mom, Liam’s got

cram all this

the heap of daily necessities

Liam while Rita was still at loss. “Liam, are you busy today. Could you give us a

not busy, I’m taking a break

his mouth when he heard

You are not busy?

why didn’t you have your lunch first before you came

the hill of pending documents on

I have to

while he was immersed in his own thoughts.

“Alright.”

the end, the Browns went home taking Liam’s

had dinner with them

the same among them except for that Rita didn't utter a word

parents really grated her by trying to reconcile her

think I

poked at Rita ad urged her. “Go

Come on…

manifested her reluctance to her mom with her expression,

her out the

Liam broke the silence between them. Sadly, he

her eyes. “I won’t

it?” He never granted her

halt at his

Liam’s eyes. “Granted or not, I’m not going back

seconds, and then continued. “I hope the next time we meet, you’ll tell me that we can publicize our

clean

in Rita’s eyes

Group is the best place for you to

that Liam’s trying to

her expertise and leading skills, but… she had her own

great trouble around this period. The board sold her father and threw

to someone else just overnight, and the Browns fell,

now that

would protect her grandpa’s inheritance, her parents. And she would have whoever set her family up pay his price

to do all those, she could not waste anymore time