“It will take me half an hour, I have business to take care of.” I say, opening my laptop.
“You have ten minutes,” she says, before disappearing out of the door.
Ah F7uck!
Mom is insisting that I come home, which is only ‘my home’. She is a guest here,
because she wants me and dad to have a long due conversation.
I hate that man.
He is the reason I don’t want to commit to a relationship. My whole childhood and
teenage years, I saw my mother miserable while he slept around without caring about her
feelings.
To this day, I don’t understand why she didn’t leave him.
I cut off ties with girls before any feelings can develop, which is good for both parties.
In the lobby, I tell mom that I will meet her in front of the hotel front while I head to the
parking lot. I am lost in my phone when the elevator pings and a girl stumbles back inside
with a fire extinguisher in her hand. A realization dawns on me when I realize it’s the same
skin color see-through dress.
Sophia!
I glance outside the lift and see a man standing in darkness. But I am unable to make
out his face. She frantically presses the lobby button.
It doesn’t make any sense at first, then I realize her body is shaking and her hair
undone.
When I
mu hand on her shoulder cha startla and attanke ma Lamah har mabachif
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It doesn’t make any sense at first, then I realize her body is shaking and her hair is
undone.
When I put my hand on her shoulder, she startle and attacks me. I grab her makeshift weapon just in time and call out to her, “Oh my Go7d, Sophia.. It’s me!”
She bursts into tears and says, “Oh f7uck! I thought he had an accomplice in the lift.
This is why he didn’t follow me.”
Somebody has harassed her or attacked her. My Jaw clenches at realization. I could go
back to the parking lot and beat the s7hit out of him, but I need to make sure she is fine.
“Who?”I ask and grab her face into my palms, only to see her pupil dilated.
She looks confused and doesn’t answer me and mumbles something coherent.
Was she hit on the head?
It doesn’t take long to confirm my suspicion because she faints. I pick her up and take
her to the lobby.
Several employees and my mom rush towards me.
“What happened to her?”
“Somebody f7uck7ing assaulted her. Call the police and an ambulance.”
“Send security to the parking lot and see if the attacker is still there.”
I bark orders at them.
“Are you telling me that we can get mugged even at this big hotel?” My mom says in
bewilderment.
“F7ucking looks like it I say as I lay Sophie on a sofa.”
“Oh my Go7d! isn’t she the girl that was all over the news last weekend? That Brown.
family’s girl…”
I sigh. “Yeah…”
The manager arrives and I tell him the details, “That’s not possible, Sir. This is a very heavily guarded hotel.”
I shoot him a death glare. He is judging me based on information that I only saw her int
the lift and didn’t see anyone attack her.
too.”
He thinks she just fainted.
Can you f7ucking believe him?
“Maybe make claims once you see the security footage. Make a copy available for me
“Sir! we cannot do that,” he exclaims.
“You will do that if you don’t want a lawsuit on this place.”
He shuts his mouth and says, “We will see what we can do.”
me.
Sophie stirs in her sleep and flutters her eyes open. She gets up and moves away from
“Oh S7hit! Oh my G7od… This is embarrassing…” She says, looking at the little crowd
formed around us.
“Give us some privacy everyone,” I say to disperse the crowd of hotel staff and a few
outlookers around us.
The manager stays and asks, “I have called the police and ambulance but I have to ask were you attacked? or he just wanted to grab your car keys?”
Sophie blinks, unable to answer.
“She just hit her head, give her a break. Leave us alone for a while please.”
She looks at me with fascination and asks, “How… How do you know I was hit in the
head… I don’t remember anything at all…”
“It’s a guess…”
“I don’t remember your name.”
Ah F7uck. I cannot tell her I am ‘Liam’ in front of Mom…
I certainly cannot tell her my real name.
“You don’t remember me at all?”
She thinks and yawns, “I know you are the Hot Jerk from 903.. we slept together that
night.”
My eyes pop out and my mom giggles. I correct her. “We did not Sophie…”
“We did. You said you paid for that bed and you won’t sleep in that st7pid sofa bed.”
Mom chuckles again and I shoot her a look.
“Are you his girlfriend honey?” Mom asks her by putting a palm on her shoulder, and Sophie startles.
“Oh I didn’t know you were here…” Sophie says, then frowns. “But who are you?”
She squints her eyes and presses her head.
“Why don’t I remember anything?” She mumbles to herself.
The paramedics arrive and do a checkup for her.
“Her pupils are heavily diluted. Did she vomit?”
“Not yet,” I tell them. “But she was unconscious for more than 10 minutes”
“Oh, We should do an MRI to be safe. Are you her family?”
“Yes.” I tell them, and mom raises her brow at me.
“Alright, you can accompany her in the ambulance.”
I don’t know how I will explain this to mom.
“LIAM!” Sophie exclaims, and I internally facepalm myself.
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“Your name is LIAM. I remember it now.”
I wince and nod.
“Good! you are getting your memory back,” The paramedic tells her and mom shoots.
me a glare.
I am in so much s7hit.
The police arrive and ask the paramedic if they can question Sophie. The paramedics recommend questioning her in hospital as it can upset or trigger her.
I take the officer to the corner and ask him for his observation. He says, “Looks like a
typical car hijack case. I think he just wanted to grab her expensive car. Because her car is.
gone.”
“Why would he attack her then? She was sure he was following her.”
“We will know more once we see the footage.”
The officers continue with their investigation and take my number to contact me later
for questioning.
As we are about to leave for the hospital, Mom pulls me in a corner.
“We will meet at breakfast tomorrow. Don’t sk7ip this time Miles,” she says with a
warning in her tone.
F7ucking great. Now she will think I am sleeping around and giving fake names to girls.
She will certainly ask me why I wanted to go with her in the ambulance.
Good thing I have the whole night to make a believable story.
The only problem is- it’s hard to lie in front of her.
So I usually lie by omission.
As I sit next to her in the ambulance and wonder to myself, Why did I come here?
Wasn’t I the type who doesn’t get involved with girls?
But she doesn’t know who I am. I reason myself but that’s an absurd excuse.
Why is my urge to be around her getting stronger?
“Why did you say I was Family?” She asks and I smile.
“Are you eager to play my husband already?” I laugh.
“I don’t want my face plastered all over the news Sophia..” I tell her and she frowns.
“hmmm I think even M wouldn’t like that,” she mumbles to herself and my lips twitch.
When we reach the hospital, the doctors do her routine checkup and I ask Liam to
inform her family about her whereabouts.
They will swarm the hospital in no time. I think to myself and sigh. I guess I sho
leave once they arrive.
Then a realization dawns on me.
If she was attacked, the attacker could try to do it again at the hospital too. The
thought makes me uncomfortable.
I will have to do something about it.
