Meanwhile, her useless brother was indolently lying on the couch, sound
asleep. His clothes were still in perfect order. Not even his hair was the slightest
bit ruffled up!
There was no need to guess. There was definitely nothing “interesting” going on
last night at all!
Leia sighed. These two had been dragging it out for close to ten years now, yet
they were still stuck in this ambiguous “friend zone” after all this time. She was
almost irked to death thinking about it!
Enter title…
“Ahem!” Leia dragged her feet into the room and yanked the curtain open,
flooding the room with bright sunlight. “Wake up, both of you! Time to get up!”
Liam woke up with a grimace and promptly got up to his feet and grabbed his
sister from the back by the collar of her shirt.
“You little sh*thead!” he hissed. ‘So you finally opened the door, huh?
You’re getting too bold for your own good if you have the audacity to play this
kind of stupid prank! If you didn’t think that I’d teach you a sore lesson today,
then you’re about to get a big reality check on how frightening your brother can
be!”
’Ah!” Leia screamed and struggled in resistance, but against her brother, she
was nothing but a helpless little bird, and had no chance of escaping his grip.
’Let me go, you idiot! I only did it to help you guys! What a shame! All my good
intentions and painstaking efforts were totally wasted on you!’
“He’s going to kill me!” Leia continued to make a loud commotion, now turning
to Renee for support. “You’ve got to help me, Renee! My brother’s gone crazy!
He’s really going to kill me!”
Despite the huge commotion between Liam and Leia, Renee surprisingly still lay
quietly in bed in the same position the whole time, just as if she had been
replaced by a mannequin.
“That’s strange,” Leia noticed after fighting with her brother for a while.’ Why do I
feel like there’s something wrong with Renee?”
“Didn’t I tell you to comfort her last night?” she asked her brother. “How did she
end up this way? Did someone hurt her?”
“Do you think anyone could hurt someone like Renee?” replied Liam, putting his
hands in his pockets. He looked at Renee, whose back was turned towards
them, and softly added, “If I’m not mistaken, I think she’s just in a self-healing
mode.”
“Self-healing mode?” Leia asked, puzzled. But judging by how calm her brother
seemed, perhaps Renee was in no big trouble after all?
Liam slowly added, “When a person gets hit by a huge psychological blow and
becomes seriously traumatized, they’ll get into a self-healing mode like some
animals do. Some would bawl their eyes out, some would make a huge
commotion, some would overeat or turn to alcohol to help them cope, and some
would even turn to sex and become promiscuous. My guess is that our boss
here probably chose to sleep in order to heal her trauma.”
“No way,” argued Leia. “The Renee that I know has full confidence in Adie’s
ability to survive. She can’t be so worried about her son that she became
traumatized, can she?”
“Who told you it has anything to do with Adie?” replied Liam. He heaved a long
sigh. He had no desire to keep the truth of the matter a secret
anymore, so he explained, “Stefan Hunt is dead. In fact, he died trying to save
Renee. The doctors couldn’t save his life. Perhaps Renee just can’t accept the
reality of his death at the moment, so she…”
“What did you say?!” Leia’s eyeballs almost fell out of their sockets. “Stefan
Hunt is dead?! This is earth-shattering news! Never mind her, I don’t even think I
can believe that’s true! I’ve heard of rumors about his death, but no one actually
believed it! This is Stefan Hunt we’re talking about after all! How could Beach
City’s most powerful man just die so easily like that…?’
’It’s not just a rumor,” said Liam, “because I saw his corpse on a stretcher
wheeled out of the operation room with my own eyes. His body was lying stiff
under a white cloth.”
Liam was filled with conflicted emotions. To him, Stefan Hunt had always been
an opponent both in business and in love. He had been anticipating the day
Stefan was finally eliminated, yet now that he had actually died, he felt
inexplicably lost.
The man that he had always aimed to surpass was now gone forever before he
had the chance to actually surpass him. Because of that, Stefan Hunt had
become a forever insurmountable godlike figure. How could he not feel
disheartened by it then?
The whole room was now filled with a dull and somber air.
Just then, Renee’s phone on the nightstand suddenly rang..
