Chapter 138Liana's POV I really thought finding out the perfect gift for Kieran would be the hardest thing I would have to do. But in a huge twist of events, it turned out to be the exact opposite. Apparently, picking a gift was the easiest thing I could do of all things, and the hardest just happened to be keeping my mouth shut about it all. Prior to this, I used to think I could guard everg secret I encountered. Why, because the very few I knew, I guarded it like my life depended on it, and since I could keep secrets, one would think that it would be pretty easy for me to keep my mouth shut about a potential surprise. I was wrong. Very very wrong. Like I wasn't already going through enough as it was, Kieran just had to come into the picture. If was one thing having to keep the secret from him, and if was one thing getting a grip on myself when all I wanted was to spill it to him. I'd lost count of the number of times I was this close to telling him I was going to get him
Liana's POV I had no idea why I hadn't thought about it till now. I'd always prided myself on the fact that I was a really thoughtful person, and that I took tinu details to heart, but right now, I couldn't but think maybe it was time to take a step back. How could I have missed it? The signs were glaring and in front of me, so how could it have skipped my mind? Had I been that occupied with snooping out Richard's secret that I was losing focus of other important things? I didn't give myself an answer immediately, but I felt I didn't need one. Deep down, I knew the truth, and whether I admitted it or not, nothing was going to change that. “Liana?” The sound of my name beside me was all it took to pull me out of my thoughts. I blinked back a couple of seconds, willing my eyes to adjust to my immediate surroundings again. Richard's face came into view first, and I didn't miss the shock etched into his expression. “Are you okay?”“Yeah. Yeah.” I nodded. “I'm sorry, I just zoned out
Chapter 136Liana's POV When I said I was shocked, even that had to be one of the biggest understatements I'd made. When I'd woken up this morning, I already had a short plan of how my day was going to go. Even though Richard's impromptu visit wasn't a part of it, something good had come out of it; strawberries. Very delicious ones by the way. Richard bringing me strawberries had definitely messed with me in a way I didn't expect, and even though it felt only normal for me to reduce whatever suspicions I had in his direction, the whole thing seemed to have escalated my curiosity Why was he being nice? Had we really before friends to the extent that he now felt obliged to give me gifts? Was he being genuine, or was all of this just a part of a scheme to get me off his trail? Whatever it was, I didn't have any answers to those questions, so I decided to go to my drawing board, aka the veranda. What I didn't expect to happen, was for him to catch me red handed, and now, he was walk
Chapter 135Liana's POV I couldn't believe my eyes. I blinked back a couple of times, but even at that, it didn't do anything to clear the haze of a man in front of me. This was my first time being pregnant, and at this stage, while I knew pregnancies varied for different people, I wasn't sure anyone would include hallucinations as a part of the symptoms they were having. I knew of morning suxkenes, or was I somehow imagining things that weren't there because I'd just thrown up? Had I emptied my bowels so much that I was beginning to see things? More time passed, but the man in front of me refused to leave. Instead,he just stood there, with a wide grin on his face. Was Richard really standing in front of me? Or was it just a figment of my imagination? If he was real, why hadn't he said anything or even moved yet? Why was he acting like a goddamn statue that had….“Good morning, Liana.” I jerked at the sound that broke through my thoughts, and my hand flew to my chest immediately
Chapter 134Liana's POV I couldn't speak. No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't bring myself to form any words. It felt like the part of my brain that was concerned with making up words had temporarily shut down. I really did try to kick start it, but it just didn't work. Nothing seemed to be working. A wave of silence washed over us. It covered everywhere like an almost thick blanket, and as more time, I felt it settling into the edges and the corners of the room. It was suffocating to say the least, but I knew Kieran couldn't break it, not even if he tried. If he decided to ask me another question, the tendencies that I wasn't going to answer was sky high. “Liana.” Kieran's voice broke through my thoughts. I blinked back a couple of times, willing my eyes to adjust to the present. As expected, he was still in his spot, his eyes fixated on me like he was still waiting for my answer. “I'm listening.”“Come on.” He prodded again. “I thought we already agreed on not keeping
Liana's POV I couldn't believe my ears. I didn't want to. The world around me stilled, and for the next couple of minutes, all that could be heard was the rapid thump of my heart, or perhaps Penelope's, I wasn't exactly sure yet. Whoever is was, I didn't want to believe that the words that had just slid past Penelope's mouth was the truth.“I really tried my best, ma'am.” Her voice echoed all around my head. “But all of my efforts were futile. I wasn't able to come up with any useful information.”I wanted to scream. I wanted to yell at the top of my voice till the whole world heard me, but I couldn't. A small part of me even didn't mind marching up to Richard's office at this point and asking him what the fuck he was hiding. But I couldn't, not even in a million years. Doing that was only going to unlock a chain of consequences for me. The tendency that whatever new found friendship we'd found was high, and coupled with the risk of Kieran shutting it down was also included, so th