LIAM'S POV:
I just stared on at the commotion going on right in front of me.I heard my mom ask Mateo who threatened him to pronounce me impotent. Mateo didn't talk at first, but after persuasion, he finally let the cat out of the bag."I was threatened by Mrs Riley Macdonald to declare Mr Liam impotent." I heard him say as he lowered his head in shame.I froze in shock as soon as I heard his words. Is it the same Riley that I married?"I must have heard wrong with all this going on. Riley can't do this to me, right? Or is Mateo just using heaping the blame on her so that he can go Scott free?" I asked myself as I fumed in anger."What, Liam's wife?" I heard my mom yell as she slumped to the floor in shock."You motherfucker, how dare you accuse my wife of plotting against me. Do you think that I will seriously believe you over my wife? You must be joking to think that" I yelled as I grabbed him by the collar."I'm seriously telling the truth here. Your wife isn't who you think she is. She threat…"I didn't let him finish his words as I landed a heavy punch on his face making him to have a nosebleed.I slowly advanced at him to land more heavy punches at him when he spoke up."I have evidence. I can prove to you that I'm not lying against your wife" he said while forcing himself to stand on his feet."What are you going that with?" I heard my mom say, finally speaking up after slumping to the floor.Mateo walked over to his desk and brought out a pen."With this," he said as he raised the pen for everyone to see.I laughed out loud as I looked at him ridiculously. He must finally be losing it after my punch."Oh really? You are gonna prove that my wife is behind this with a pen?" I asked as I raised a brow."This is not just any pen, it is also a recorder. Every doctor in this hospital has one of these for emergencies such as this one. We only use it to record important things" he explained as he stared directly at my eyes."So, you are trying to say that you recorded your conversations with Liam's wife in this pen?" my mom asked as she narrowed her eyes at Mateo while slowly standing on her feet."Yes, and I can prove it by playing the audio." Mateo further said."Then what are you waiting for? Play the audio let's all listen to it" my mom said.Mateo quickly pressed a button that we didn't notice was on the Pen.Just then, I heard my wife's voice asking for a favor from Mateo. Mateo replied that he would grant any favor to her. She then asked Mateo to fake the result of the lab test. Mateo strongly rejected the offer saying that I trusted him so much that it would be backstabbing if he faked the result. "Well then, you will have no choice but to do it after speaking with your family." We heard Riley say."Don't you dare touch my family" we heard Mateo warn.Everyone went quiet for a while before we heard Riley's laughter coupled with the crying of a little kid."Daddy please save us" we heard the kid say along with the muffled cries of an elderly woman who seemed to be Mateo's wife.We heard Mateo demanding that Riley should free his wife and kids, but Riley said that she wouldn't free them unless Mateo did what he asked."Tell me, why do you want me to fake the result so much to the extent of kidnapping my wife and kid?" we heard Mateo ask."I just don't want to get pregnant now and ruin my perfect body and shape. You know, I'm a model and I've seen a lot of women with perfect curves get pregnant. But after giving birth, their beauty and curves disappear without a trace. I don't want that to be the case for me. I can't let pregnancy tarnish my career, okay?" we heard Riley say in one breath."So because of your career, you want me to declare your husband impotent so that he will think that he is the reason for your inability to give birth?""Correct. You are smarter than you look, Mateo. So, will you help me or should I get rid of your family?" we heard her ask."I will help you, but you should know that nothing stays hidden forever and I'm doing this for my family"."Great! I like how obedient you are. Oh, and why we are at it, you should supply me with some birth control pills so that there will be low chances of me getting pregnant." we heard her say as the recorder turned off.I glanced at my mom whose mouth was agape as she stared wide-eyed at the recorder.So all this has been going on behind my back without my knowledge. Riley was the one behind my misery. "How could she do this to me? Wasn't she the one who told me that she couldn't wait to get pregnant with my child? So what's all this" I thought to myself as tears escaped my eyes.I turned and stared at Mia who had tears in her eyes as she gave me a pitiful look.I walked towards her and engulfed her in a tight hug surprising her.She slowly broke the hug and looked at me with a questioning gaze.Honestly, if not for her sudden appearance in my life, I would still be in the dark and oblivious of what was happening.I engulfed her in a hug once again and I could see our parents smiling through the corner of my eyes. I broke the hug this time as I gazed into her beautiful emerald eyes."Are you really pregnant with my child?" I asked as I gazed at her tummy and she gave me an unsure look before slowly nodding her head."Gosh, I'm so happy for that. You are proof that I'm a man." I exclaimed happily as I carried her and twirled her around the office, thereby making a scream erupt from her mouth.Though I haven't figured out how she got pregnant for me, I'm still happy that I'm going to be called a father very soon by a woman who values than my selfish wife.Just then, an idea popped into my head. I slowly let her down as I held her delicate hands. I slowly got down on one knee and proposed to her."Will you marry me, Mia?"LIAM’S POV:“Who was it?” I asked curiously.“I think it was Charles Robert”“What” I gasped in shock at the mention of that name.“Mia, are you sure of what you saw? Maybe you didn't see his face when he took the mask off so you might have assumed him to be someone else” I rapped while staring intuitively at Mia who gently shook her in disapproval.“I'm sure of what I saw Liam, I saw his face when he took his mask off. It was Charles Robert” Mia said.I exhaled heavily as I thought of the reason Charles would try to harm me. Was it to spite me or was it totally for a different reason?“If it's truly him, then why did his shoulder feel so soft when I got a hold of him in the passageway? He almost seemed like a girl to me if not for the masculine way he was dressed” I said pensively.“What happened in the passageway?” Mia immediately asked.“Nothing, just that I saw him leaving your room while I was coming back from the restroom so I got a hold of him because he seemed suspicious but h
LIAM’S POV:“I think it's high time you separate yourself from my daughter,” Mia’s mom said with a stern look on her face.I looked shocked as I stared at her unbelievably.“You don't mean that,” my mom said, stepping forward to us.“Yes, I do. I don't see my daughter benefitting anything by staying with Liam. Instead, she keeps getting hospitalized despite being pregnant” Mia’s mom retorted.I looked spaced out as I stared between my mom and Mia’s mom while at a loss for words.I didn't know how to reply to her request more like a command Mia’s mom just issued now.I can't deny that the thought hasn't crossed my mind at all, but I just shrugged it off as nothing.Now, her mom had voiced out her thoughts on her daughter's safety.I couldn't blame her after all Mia was the only family she had and it would be so painful if she eventually lost her.I thought about her command for a while and remembered the warning she gave me beforehand that I should think of what was best for Mia and ou
LIAM’S POV: I went to the doctor's office hoping to meet the doctor again but couldn't.Instead, I met a nurse walking out of there and she told me that the doctor wasn't available at the moment.I sighed before heading back down because it seemed like the doctor wasn't around.Just when I reached downstairs, I bumped into someone and the person quickly apologized while rushing off before I saw his or her face.I shrugged while looking at the retreating figure of the person hastily walking away.I don't know why, but I felt like I knew the person from somewhere and the person probably didn't want to see me that's why they reacted the way they did” I thought before heading towards the reception room to ask the receptionist where the CCTV camera room was. I was directed to a room hidden almost at the back of the hospital which was the CCTV camera room.I slowly entered the room and noticed that it was unusually empty.“Shouldn’t the security men in charge of monitoring the activities
MIA’S POV:I groaned in pain as I woke up and immediately shut my eyes because my vision was kinda blurry coupled with the light shining directly on my eye.“Miss, are you okay?” I heard a voice ask.I opened my eyes and noticed that the light shining on my eyes had been switched off.“Do you understand what I'm saying?” the voice asked yet again.I didn't reply as I looked intently at the person standing in front of me and asking me questions.“Blink once if yes and blink twice if no” the voice which was that of a doctor said.“I can talk” I replied while trying to sit up on the bed but a sharp pain gripped my stomach making me groan in pain before falling back on the bed.“You shouldn't try to get up for a while because you have not fully recovered,” the doctor instructed as he reached for my wrist and checked my pulse.He connected an IV fluid to my wrist before telling a nurse beside him to come to check up on me every hour.After a few minutes of instructions from the doctor, he
LIAM’S POV:“Stop right there” I half yelled as I gripped the person by the shoulder and surprisingly the stranger whom I thought was a man had soft shoulders making me doubt his sex.The stranger stood rooted on his spot for a few seconds as I slowly turned the person to face me.Suddenly, he shook my hands off his shoulder before taking to his heels. I noticed him limping while running as I chased after him, making me raise a questioning brow at him.Halfway through the chase in the hospital that was already drawing attention from people, I stopped as I watched the stranger escape.No need to chase after him when there are CCTV cameras installed in every corner of the hospital.I needed to go check on Mia first to know if she was alright because her safety was now my priority.I could easily catch the stranger who entered her room while I was away because he wasn't running as fast as I expected, probably because he had a wound on his leg.I sighed as I rushed back to Mia’s ward to
LIAM’S POV:I woke up earlier than usual and walked into Mia’s room to check on her.I met her all cuddled up in the bed with the duvet wrapped around as she was still asleep.I walked closer to her and slowly sat on the bed careful not to wake her up.I checked her temperature and noticed that her fever had died down and was now mild.I sighed in relief while lifting myself from the bed. I covered her well with the duvet before leaving.“Her fever dying down doesn't mean that she has recovered right?” I thought as I slowly closed the door behind me after walking out.“Maybe I should go purchase more drugs for her in case she is still feeling cold or her fever suddenly accelerates. After all, prevention is better than cure” I thought as I walked into my room and grabbed my black card before heading downstairs.I met Anita on my way out of the house who immediately bowed in greeting as soon as she saw me.“I'm heading out for a while to go purchase some drugs for her. Tell her where I