Page 31 of Accidental Love

“I don’t want you near my son. None of this would have happened if it wasn’t for you. It is also because of you that he has stopped doing his work, making our company go down.” She looked up at me. Her eyes were hard and cold. “You are not allowed near my son anymore. If I see you with him, I won’t hesitate to put a restraining order against you.”

“I didn’t mean for this to happen. I’m sorry, but it was real. What I feel for Liam is real. I love your son,” I said, gripping onto Liam’s hand and arm.

This couldn’t be happening. I couldn’t stay away from Liam. He needed me right now. I could see his mother was angry at me, but this wasn’t fair.

“No, you don’t. You are only in it for the money. Once he wakes up he will realize what a mistake he made with you.” I could see tears were starting to slide down her cheeks. “I want you out of here.”

“I—”

“Get out! Right now! I don’t want you anywhere near my son!” She started yelling. The look she sent me made me stumble back as if I had just been the one hit by a car. I had never seen someone with so much hate in their eyes; hatred that was directed toward me. Lilly looked beyond livid.

“Lilly!” I started to say.

“Get. Out,” she hissed, her eyes narrowing even more. I wanted to stay and argue, but I knew it would be worthless. Lilly did not look like someone I wanted to cross at the moment. Tears burned in the back of my eyes as I looked down at Liam. Please get up, Liam. Please wake up right now, I pleaded silently. “If you don’t get out right now I will call security,” Lilly threatened.

Reluctantly I slowly unlaced my fingers through Liam’s and took a step back. Lilly’s eyes were on me as I slowly walked around his bed to the curtain. Everything inside of me begged to stay with Liam. I wanted to be near him and make sure he was okay. I wanted to be in his room when they moved him. I wanted to be there when he woke up.

Forcing myself to open the curtain and walk away, I heard Lilly mutter one last time “It is your fault” before the curtain was pulled shut in front of me. Swallowing the lump in my throat, I turned to go back to my room. The voice in my head was telling me to give Lilly some time and things would be okay.

As I headed back to the room, I looked for Adam but didn’t find him anywhere. I wanted to apologize to him, but when I didn’t see him I knew it had to wait. Just as I reached the bed, the same nurse as before came walking in.

“Is your fiancé going to be okay?” she asked, moving around the small area.

“Yeah he is,” I said softly, wincing as I got up on the bed.

“Just stay in here and rest for a little while. We will get you moved into another room in a while. The medicine I gave you should have started kicking in, so get some sleep, sweetie.” At the mention of the medicine, I could feel myself getting tired. I briefly nodded before she left, closing the curtain behind her.

Even though I had medicine in me, my ribs twanged in pain as I shifted on the bed. All the adrenaline I was feeling before was starting to wear off, and in its place came tiredness. I should have been tired a while ago, after the nurse gave me a shot, but I guess being too worried about Liam and Lilly talking to me, I was able to ignore it. Now, sitting on this rather uncomfortable bed, my eyes were drooping shut.

Even with my ruined clothes on, I was falling asleep. The last thing I thought about before my mind completely shut off was Liam and hoping he would wake up soon.

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“My mother was right. This is your fault,” he said, his lip curling up almost in a snarl.

“What?” I croaked out.

“You put me here. If I hadn’t met you I would be fine right now and I wouldn’t be regretting lying to my parents. Ever since you came into my life, everything has gone wrong.”

I tried to grab onto his hand, but he jerked it away from me. His cobalt eyes were staring at me accusingly. His entire body tilted away from me as if he couldn’t get far enough away.

“You are like fire. You ruin everything you come in contact with. That is why your mother didn’t want to be near you, and why I don’t want to be either. I don’t ever want to see you again. People like me don’t mingle with low scum like you,” he hissed.

Tears ran down my cheeks at his harsh words. I wanted someone to pinch me and tell me this was a dream, but it didn’t feel like one. His heated look was enough to make me know otherwise. Liam was looking at me like Lilly had earlier.

“Liam—” I sobbed.

“You don’t belong here, Jenna. You never did and never will. Stay away from me. Goodbye.” He turned his head away from me, staring at the wall. Sobs slipped past my lips as I clenched onto the bed.

“Liam, don’t do this. Don’t leave!” I begged, trying to touch him. Right before my fingers came in contact with him, he seemed to move further away. Every time I tried, he slipped further and further away from me.

“Liam!”

I jerked up, a scream caught in my dry throat. Instantly I moaned as pain laced up my sides. It was just a dream. Crap, I’d thought I was all of this was dream. I thought I would wake up and find myself in bed beside a sleeping Liam.

Panting, I glanced around my dark room, light seeping through the curtain and showing shadows moving around. I didn’t know what time it was, but it had to be really late. Wait! Did they move Liam? I thought suddenly. Biting back a scream of pain, I gripped my patched-up side as I sat fully up and slipped off the bed.

Pushing back the curtain, I squinted at the bright light around me. A few nurses walked around the ER, but other than that, it was quiet. I looked toward where Liam was and saw the curtain was pushed open and the bed was empty. They moved him while I was asleep? At that thought, my heart sunk.

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