"Lilly..." his voice was almost a whisper but it was loud enough to reach her ears.

She had wanted to scream. She had wanted to shout at him and yell. She had wanted to hit him with something or anything that could draw blood from his head and give him as much pain as she was feeling right now. But all she could do and say was, "I am sorry to interrupt you both. I came at the wrong moment it seems. Continue."

And with that, she banged the door shut behind her and rushed to the elevator. She could hear Ashton calling from behind asking her to stop but her whole self had just wanted to leave his vicinity as soon as possible.

"Lilly." Ashton pushed the women off of him and rushed behind his wife.

"Please stop! Listen to me," he called behind her but she had already entered the elevator and closed the door on his face.

"Damn it!'' he cursed as he hit his fist on the closed elevator doors.

" Ashton." Mila, the woman who was the cause of all this misunderstanding came from behind and held his arm.

"Don't touch me," Ashton shouted at her and the woman was taken aback by his behaviour. He shouted as if her touch had burned him.

"Don't you ever dare to show up in my office ever again or I will make sure you don't find even a place to stay here in Boston. Get lost right now."

With one final warning, he turned away from her and rushed to the stairs as the elevator was still on the first floor. By the time he reached the lobby, she had walked out of the building.

Ignoring the calls of her husband she sat in the car as the driver pulled the vehicle towards the villa. She sat quietly at the backseat introspecting how and from where exactly had things started to go so wrong. Why her husband who now had turned out to be a cheater, a traitor broke her heart so cruelly. She regretted the moment she fell for him.

Lilly's phone started ringing and the handsome face of her lover displayed on the screen. He hadn't called for a whole week and now he was calling to make excuses for his cheating, she had wanted to laugh and cry at the same time at her fate.

She had so many questions she had wanted to ask when she saw him with Mila like that. She had wanted to ask why he deceived her like that. Why he broke her heart and her trust so ruthlessly. Wasn't it him who had said that neither of them would go for an extramarital affair? Wasn't it he who had assured her on their very first meeting that he will never go to other women's bed after they marry?

'Liar.' He was a liar, her heart bleeds at the admission.

'He was lying during all this time and I believed his every word like a fool. I lowered my guard and fell in love. What an idiot I am.'

"Mrs King, your phone is ringing." the driver called for her attention.

"It's nothing important,'' she said and switched off her phone. She tried to look out of the window to find something to focus on. Something that could divert her mind. She didn't want to cry. Not here. Not now.

The driver's phone started ringing. He looked at the caller ID and it was from his boss, Ashton. But before he could pick up the call Lilly snatched the phone from him and cut the call.

"Keep driving. I will call him later." And the driver just did what he was told.

Even though his guts were telling him to stop the car and take the call but disobeying a very angry Mrs King didn't seem like a good idea. So he kept driving.

"What happened, Mr King?" John asked worriedly as he first saw Lilly leaving the building in a hurry and then Ashton who was running and looked dishevelled.

"Who the hell sent Mila to my office?" Ashton looked angrily at John whose eyes turned towards the receptionist indicating the obvious.

Ashton glanced at the receptionist and the woman could feel blood evaporating from her body.

"S-sir, that women in green said that she was your girlfriend so I- I sent her up."

Ashton looked at her in disbelief while John interrupted.

"Wait! Did you say the same to anyone else?"

"The woman who walked out just now said she wanted to meet Mr King but didn't have an appointment so I told her that you were with your girlfriend."

So this was where it all started, Ashton realised.

"You. Are. Fired." he hissed.

"Sorry?" The receptionist looked at him in complete shock. She had just joined the job a week ago. Was she being fired just on her seventh day?

"If you don't even know who your boss's wife is then you can very well sit at home and read your gossip magazines."

"Sir," the receptionist tried to request but didn't even get a chance to say a word.

"If any woman steps in this building and says that I am her boyfriend you would just believe and show her the way to my office? Is that why I have kept you here on the job? Did you not even thought of ringing my secretary and confirm with him? And the woman who walked out just now is my wife."

The receptionist now had nothing more to say in her favour. She shouldn't have believed that photograph the woman showed. She had screwed up big time.

" John." Ashton shifted his attention to his secretary. ''My car keys."

"Here, Sir." John quickly placed the keys in Ashton's hand. He did not even dare to suggest his boss call the driver.

"Fire her this instant. Settle her payments and show her out. I don't want to see her face in this building again." Ashton ordered as he hurriedly walked out of the building.

"Alright." John followed him behind.

''Bring the footage from my office of the past 30 minutes. I want it at my villa within an hour. Take the photos of the timings when Mila and Lilly entered the office."

"Yes, Mr King."

With that Ashton sat in his car and drove away. He tried calling on Lilly's phone but she didn't answer.

''Come on, Lilly. At least give me a chance to explain." he increased the speed of the car hoping that he would find her home and catch her before she leaves or does anything stupid.

He tried calling on driver's number but he wasn't picking up the call either.

"The driver needs to be fired too." He muttered angrily as he took another turn.

Just as his car reached the villa he saw the other car and the driver standing beside it. He got out of the car angrily and walked to him. With superhuman efforts, he controlled himself and tried hard not to lash out at the man in front of him.

"Why the hell did you not answer your phone?"

"Sir, Mrs King didn't allow me to answer it. I am extremely sorry." the driver apologized hurriedly not even sure what he had done so wrong. "She went in just now," he added quickly to save his dear life and job from Ashton's rage.

Ashton stormed into the house and found Grace and Sam in the living room. Grace was looking worried.

"Where is Lilly?" he asked.

"In the guest room towards the far end of the villa," Grace answered and watched as Ashton hurried in that direction.

"No one is allowed to go there without my permission," he announced before leaving.

It wasn't the rule of this house. It simply meant that neither Grace nor Sam was allowed to interrupt what was going to happen in that part of the villa, she silently acknowledged.

When she had advised Lilly this morning to talk to Ashton and sort things out she hadn't expected it all to turn even sourer. Now she just hoped and prayed for everything to go well.

Ashton walked towards the guest room situated in the corner of the house. He tried to open the door only to find it locked from inside. So Lilly was here, he felt relief rush through his body.

"Lilly?" he knocked at the door softly as he called for her. ''Open the door, please."

But she didn't answer.

"Lilly, open the door," he called again but no answer came from the other side of the door and now the relief from seconds ago started to evaporate again.

What if she did something wrong to her self, a thought struck him as he remembered his mother's lifeless body lying on the bed.