It was already 11:30 by night. Lilian was laying beside Elena but for some reason, sleep was far away from her eyes. Giving up on the thought of getting some sleep, she got down from the bed and walked out of the room. The poolside seemed to be a good idea to have some fresh air. With this thought, she made her way there. Staring into the pool for a few moments, Lilian rolled up her ankle-length pants up and sank her legs into the cold water as she sat by the poolside. She shivered for few moments, but gradually her body got accustomed to the coldness of the water. A soft breeze was caressing the exposed areas of her body and it felt soothing. This swimming pool lounge was also very spacious just like every other portion of the mansion. The dim, night bulbs, the rose petals on the water along with the moon light was making the surrounding bright enough for her to see everything clearly. She kept sitting there gazing at the sky and enjoying the silence of the night forgetting the
Aiden was working on a file when Lilian entered his room late at night. Startling him, she placed a coffee cup on the desk.Eyeing the coffee, he asked, "Why are you still awake?""Not feeling sleepy." Lilian uttered as she settled on the chair across him and sipped her coffee."Why? Is anything bothering you?" He asked being concerned."Not really." Lilian shrugged off.Aiden didn't push her much and completed his work in silence, thankfully that didn't take long. Because he was pretty sure Lilian went to talk to him about whatever things.But he didn't expect her to start going to that direction."Do you know Willow likes you?" Lilian asked Aiden when he closed his file and asked her what's the matter actually.As much as he wanted to ignore the topic, he ended up asking, "Who told you this?" He had a pretty good idea about it though."Does it matter?" Lilian shrugged, "You knew it then. Well, what about you?""What about me!" Aiden tried to act nonchalant as he sipped his coffee.L
"Do you know what type of girl I am?" Lilian asked looking at Elena and Willow by turns. "You are a good girl, Lilian and now you should_" Elena didn't get to complete as Lilian spoke up in between. "No." Lilian shook her head, "You don't know me then. I am not a good girl." "Lilian_" Elena again tried to say something but didn't when she caught the sight of Shane, standing a few steps away. He got near them, "What's actually happening here? Why is Lilian like this?" "Lilian met her father today and something happened between them, I guess." Willow replied. "He is not my father. He never was. It was Lahaina, for him to be a daughter. And when Aiden and his family got in trouble for me, I left this town." Lilian said, her words almost slurred but they took it correctly as they stared at her silently. Lilian looked up and looked at Shane, "Since then I haven't been a Marshall girl, Shane. So, I didn't lie to you." Elena and Willow turned to Shane whose eyes were glued to Lilian
When Lilian opened her eyes, it was already morning. Feeling a severe headache, she kept laying on the bed lazily until the memory of the last night hit her mind and she sat up immediately. The headache was long forgotten. After meeting her father, she was with Willow and Elena and then at the club and the latter things went blank. Did they drop her home? But_ Her thought got interrupted as Aiden knocked on his door, "Lilian, are you up?" "Yes." Lilian answered and Aiden entered the room. He placed the hangover cure on the bedside table and sat on the bed. "Headache?" Aiden inquired, his face dead serious. Lilian didn't know what was the reason behind it but she nodded anyway and Aiden gestured at the soup, "Have it. You will feel better." Without so much of a question, Lilian took the bowl. She wasn't even half way the bowl when Aiden lost his patience and shot a question, "What happened yesterday?" "Nothing. It's just_" Lilian tried to come up with something but got interru
"Don’t leave, Lilian. I will take care of the matter with your father. He won't be able to harm neither you nor Aiden." Though not intentionally, yet words were already out. So, Shane waited for Lilian to react at his words without trying to change his words.Lilian stood dumbfounded. Shane's face showing uttered concern. She wasn’t sure if it was for her though. After all, they were always pretending and if not Shane was angry with her and wanted her to be gone as much as she knew.Then what happened to get it changed?The longer Lilian took to response, the more hesitant Shane got. He wasn’t supposed to behave this way but here he was.Lilian finally opened her mouth but her question got Shane even more hesitant. "Why would you help me and Aiden?"Her father caused damage to him as well and grasping his company and liquidating it was one of the things, he once wanted to do. And more than that, he wanted to help Lilian so that she wouldn't think of leaving this town. He wasn't sure wh
"Mom? How can you say this to Shane?" Elena said, not believing her ears. Before Yana could answer her, a voice from behind came to their hearing. "What did you say? Shane doing what? Not caring about me?" Willow was passing by Shane's room. Seeing her Mom and Elena talking to Shane in his room which was rare, she knew something must be going on but she didn’t see these words throwing at Shane anyway.Shane had treated everyone of the family members dearly. Though he didn’t treat Yana as his mother, he never disrespected her.As much as she knew Shane had always treated her just like Elena and sometimes even better. Then how could she accuse Shane like this?"If you have forgotten, let me remind you. Whenever I fall sick, not you but Shane and Elena were the ones to spend nights beside me. The boutique shop, I wanted to open, Shane was the one to set it up for me. Only if you still can remember the company you dreamt of working for as a model, Shane was the one to get you the contrac
Shane could feel it wasn’t going to be easy to say sorry, nor did he do something to say that. He wasn’t even sure what he would say but he knew how his step-mom was. He could guess most probably how she had behaved with Aiden but yet his silence about it yesterday was bothering him. He had to do something to assuage it. He was still in his thoughts when the door of his cabin was pushed open. "Aiden, I am sorry." Words were rolled out without much thought even shocking Shane. But it only confused the person who got to hear it. Clarke Lockwood stood dumbfounded hearing Shane. As much as he knew, sorry was one of the words that never came frequently from Shane. Not to the employees at least. Cause he had never messed up. He was cold-hearted but he never vented frustration or anger out on people who wasn’t at fault basically. "And you had to say that because_?" Clarke demanded. Shane wanted to end this here with Aiden but now looking at his father, giving him a scrutinising look,
Two days got passed before Willow made her way back to Lockwood Mansion early in the evening. Elena was in the living room when she came in."Finally, you are back." Elena said when Willow stood in front of her."Were you thinking that I won't?" Willow said forcing a smile."Can you blame me?" Elena said as she got up and hugged her. She was more than relieved to find her well. She was avoiding Elena's calls and this made Elena worried about her.Karen got there and asked her, "How did it go?""What?" Willow asked, confusion lacing her eyes."The wedding you went to attend." Karen said with a confused tone."Oh, great. It went great, Granny." Willow said, trying to sound honest. She didn’t go to attend any wedding. All she just wanted some time alone."Okay. Go, freshen up and then come to my room. I have something to talk to you."Willow nodded at her and left for her room. Getting freshen up as she made her way to Karen's room, she never thought the topic of their conversation was g