Lilian flickered her eyes on Shane and Mack and was about to say something when Shane decided to speak up first, "Mack you go." With that he turned to Lilian, "And you come to my cabin." and walked into his cabin. Lilian followed him in. Placing the coffee on his desk, she enlightened him about his schedule. Shane stared at Lilian whereas she waited for him to say something or make a change in his schedule or throw some troublesome works to her. But his words left her stunned, "Granny has decided to let go of the hook. So, we can call it ends now properly." "Sounds good." Lilian smiled, "So, I am free to leave this job now, right?" Shane kept silent. He didn't see it going this way. He thought Lilian would be pestering him or Karen to go on with a job here at least. But no.. She seemed to be very eager to end it as soon as now. Shane nodded at her, "Yes." Not realising what to say exactly. He was sure though if she would have showed interest about doing this job, he definitely

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

"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

"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

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,