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

mother was trying to do, smiling; she tried to talk Zoe out of doing so. “Mom,

you going to cram all this stuff

glance at the heap of daily

turned to Liam while Rita was still at loss. “Liam, are you busy today. Could

I’m not busy, I’m taking a break today.”

when he heard Liam’s

You are not busy?

your lunch first before

hill of

have to

shadow lured up to Jacob while he was immersed in his own thoughts. “What are you looking? Come

“Alright.”

Browns went home taking

dinner with

them except for that Rita

her by

I think I should leave.”

Zoe poked at Rita ad urged her.

Come on…

reluctance to her mom with her expression, her back to

pushed her

to the company yesterday?” Liam broke the silence between them. Sadly,

have resigned.”Rita replied, indifference in her eyes. “I won’t be working

granted it?” He never granted

halt

Liam’s eyes. “Granted or not, I’m not going back in there. I’m sorry, I’m just a

hope the next time we meet, you’ll tell me that we

a clean break with

determination in Rita’s eyes

But no emotion was manifested in his eyes. “The Wilson Group is the

that Liam’s

wanted to help improve her expertise and

around this period. The board sold her father and threw him in jail,

just overnight, and the Browns fell,

now that she

she would have whoever set her family up pay his price for a

to do all those, she could not waste anymore time