CHAPTER TEN: THE REALISATION

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• The Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER SEVENTY FIVE: THE TRUTH

  "I'm the one humiliating you," I asked, trying my best to hold back the sarcastic laugh that wanted to burst out of me. I did not just understand why she thought that I could be easily deceived like that. It made absolutely no sense to me. "Are you even listening to yourself at all? No, can you actually hear what you are saying to me? How am I the one embarrassing you when it is very obvious that all you have been trying to do since is run me to the ground with your useless petty words?""I am trying to protect you from that woman inside. Listen to me all she does is lie and she is lying to you. I am trying to get you to not believe her lies." I so badly wanted to tell her that I knew everything. I wanted to inform her that I knew about the ridiculous stories she cooked up for Amara just to get her to leave town and do everything in her power to forget about me. I wanted to tell her that I knew what she and my mom were busy doing behind my back but I also knew the would be no point

• The Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER SEVENTY FOUR: BROKEN VOWS AND SHATTERED LIES

  I knew she was not expecting anything close to that but she should have really not thought that I would consider little about her emotions, especially when she had the nerves to come into the same place that I had told her over and over again that she should not go to. She desperately wanted to defile me, it was almost as if she was scared of me finding out something and apparently that fear was more greater than the fear she had of losing her identity and all the money she had in this world. Ivy stared at Steve like she had a way to destroy him and when she finally noticed that he was way bigger and probably more stronger than her, he just resulted to ask, "who the hell are you?" "I'm the guy that will gladly rip you into shreds when others are hesitating on what to do to you so if you know what is right at all, I suggest you step back before I do what I really want to do." Ivy was not the kind of woman who loved to fail and it was so evident. She took few steps back before turni

• The Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER SEVENTY THREE: THE FINAL PIECES OF THE PUZZLE?

  My head spun. A thousand puzzle pieces flew through my mind, rearranging themselves, but none of them fit.“No… no, that’s not...” I dragged a hand through my hair. “She said that to you?”Amara’s throat worked as she swallowed, but her eyes never left mine. “Yes, she told me that when you met your mother, before your accident, you told your mom that you didnt want me. That you regretted everything and that I was a mistake, one you wanted to get rid of but you just didnt know how to. She told me that the plan to get rid of me was suggested by you and your mom played along till it finally happened. I couldnt believe it but then you went to meet your mom by yourself and before you left, you were very distant, so maybe it is true."My knees nearly buckled. “That’s a lie.”“I know that now,” she snapped. “But back then? I was pregnant. Scared. Alone. You were unreachable. Your family hated me. I had no one.” Her voice broke, but she straightened, wiping the emotion off her face like war

• The Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER SEVENTY TWO: ROUND TWO

  I stepped back into the elevator, ignoring the fact that my pulse was already skyrocketing. I clenched my fist as tight as I could as I stood inside like a man who was possessed, my jaw was already ticking and my mind was racing. I pounded up the stairs two at a time. My heart wasn’t beating—it was thundering. My vision blurred with a cocktail of fury, confusion, and something I refused to name. Fear? No. Desperation.I didn’t even bother knocking this time. I slammed the door open. Amara was pacing. Her arms were folded, but her mask of calm shattered the second she saw me.“Oh, look,” she deadpanned. “Round two already?”“Don’t start with me,” I growled, kicking the door shut behind me. “You’re going to sit there and give me answers. Every. Single. One.”She scoffed, turning her back to me, heading toward the living room. “I don’t owe you anything.” She knew it was a lie, yeah, I had hurt her but she also knew that she had broken me into different pieces, more than any other person

• The Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER SEVENTY ONE: THE DECISION

  Ivy stared at me, eyes wide open. I could see right through her and I knew she was not expecting the words I said at all. She was definitely not expecting me to think about doing anything like that to her, after all I knew exactly what that would do to her. That would ruin her, it would destroy everything that she had worked so hard for. If I did what I said I would do, Ivy would never be able to get up again and she most definitely would have to become a Starbucks waitress just to get by in life, that is if she does not become a homeless person. It was cruel and a bit extreme, but I had to do the tough things just to get my point across and make sure that she does not ruin what I am trying to rebuild. She blinked. “Are you serious right now?”“As a heart attack.”“You—you’re defending her?”“Damn right I am.” My fists clenched. “You came into her home. Disrespected her. Ran your mouth like you had a say in anything going on between us. You don’t. You are a nobody and you will alway

• The Forgotten Bride   CHAPTER SEVENTY: KNOW YOUR PLACE

  "You dont have to talk to her like that, especially when you know that you dont deserve to stand there and justify anything that you have done before," Amara said softly but she knew very well that her words were cutting through like a knife. "Amara you cannot dismiss me like this," I said, almost pleading but at that point, I really didnt care. I just wanted to be close to my son and the woman I loved. I wanted to know both of them well and I was willing to do whatever it took to make sure that happened. "Amara, you had no right to leave the way you did," I rasped, not allowing her to say a word and hoping that she could hear how broken I truly was. “And neither did you,” she shot back. “You left me. You forgot me. You moved on while I carried the burden of both of us.”“I didn’t choose to forget!” I screamed, wondering if she did not listen to a single word I had said all these while. “Then tell me, Liam,” she stepped forward, tears falling but her eyes burning like fire, “if yo