When we reached home, Liam dragged me straight up to our room. After we were in, he locked the door.

He just stared at me. He didn't say anything. I was trying to control my tears the whole car ride. This time I broke down, they started flowing down, I couldn't control my tears anymore. I started hitting his chest.

"I hate you."

"I hate you."

"I hate you."

"I hate you."

"I hate you."

He held my hands pulling me close to him he said "Who put this thing in your head that I love Brittany?"

"Why would anyone have to put this in my head? I know it." I said sobbing.

"First calm down. How did you know it?"

"S-She was with you in y-your office today."

"Today? When?"

"When I called you in the morning, she picked up the call."

"You called me?" He asked in confusion.

I nodded.

"I was not in my office in the morning." He said making me confused now. Liam thought for sometime "Shit!"

"What?"

"I forgot my phone in my office and she was there, maybe that time you have called."

"But you still love her."

Liam sighed. "Why are you making things complicated Bella? Why would I love Brittany?"

"Because she is your ex-wife. A divorce can't change what you feel for her."

"Ex-wife? What the hell are you talking about Bella? Who told you that she was my wife?"

Why is he asking these stupid questions?

"Why would anyone have to tell me? She is Ryan's mother and Ryan is your son."

Liam stared at me in disbelief. He then rubbed his face with his hand. "Stop making assumptions Bella. If you want to know anything you can ask me, stop making fucking assumptions."

"T-Then w-who is Brittany? Why is she calling Ryan h-her s-son? And what's your relationship with her? I-I don't understand anything Liam." I asked in confusion.

Liam looked away as if he was not wanting to answer my question. "Liam, you're hiding something."

"Bella, I-I... it's complicated."

I looked down. I don't know why I felt bad that he doesn't trust me enough to tell me anything.

"It's okay if you don't want to tell me." I said still looking down fidgeting with my fingers.

Liam came closer to me and placed his hand under my chin making me look up at him. "My past is horrible Bella. I used to get nightmares until you came. Every night when I held you in my arms, it felt good. I felt relieved, I felt that someone is with me too and it's not just me being with someone. You make me feel that it's not just about being alive, it's about living too. Living in the moment. I am happy when I am with you."

I didn't have anything to say, I kept staring in his eyes that showed me how broken he was from inside.

"Someday or the other I have to tell you this. I can't always hide this part of my life from you forever."

He looked at me and gulped hard. "Ryan, h-he is not my son."

My eyes widened. Saying that I was shocked would be an understatement I was beyond that. "W-What?"

"Yes, this is the truth. Ryan is not my son."

He slowly made his way towards the couch and sat there. Then continued "I was never like this Bella, so reserved." He scoffed. "My life was full of enjoyment. Clubs, parties, girls, that was my life. I didn't care about anyone's feeling. Nobody mattered to me other than Amelia. My life was simple before. No girlfriends nothing. Me being in a relationship was like unbelievable. And marriage, a hell no. Ryan was the one who changed my life.

He paused for a moment. "It was about two years ago, me and Amelia we were returning from a party. She said she can drive and I let her. That was my biggest mistake, well second biggest. She was driving, but the way she was driving I knew she wasn't able to focus properly. I tried to tell her to let me drive but she didn't listen to me. I don't remember when a car came in front and crashed with our car. When the car crashed with ours I felt my head spinning, when I opened my eyes I was in the car bleeding badly, every part of my body was hurting. I looked at my side to see if Amelia is okay. S-She too was b-bleeding. I called her, I s-shook her but she wasn't waking up. I managed to get out of the car and I pulled her out, when I checked her nerves, her breathing. S-She was no more."

I saw Liam crying. Tears were rolling down his cheeks. I went to him and sat beside him.

"That moment w-was hell for me. M-My mind went blank, I didn't know what to do. I just sat there holding her in my arms" I rubbed his arm.

"L-Liam."

"The road was empty. There was no one for help. I was still shouting and waiting for someone to come and help but no one came. Then I heard the crying of a kid, it was coming from the other car. I managed to drag myself to the other car to see who was it. I saw a man and I saw a child crying inside. I managed to open the door of the car and took out the child. But when I tried to pull the man out, he screamed out in pain. His leg was stuck inside and he was not able to come out. Then I noticed that the petrol was leaking from his car. I was asking him to try but it seemed like he had already given up. He was asking me to go away but I couldn't just leave him, dying there. But I didn't have any other choice either I-I had to leave him and Amelia. I had to save the child. The last thing he said before dying was that 'please take care of my son'. With that he yelled at me to leave. I picked up the kid and ran away from the car. I just stood there and saw the car getting fire. I-I couldn't do a-anything."

Liam then took a deep breath and rubbed his face "Being the jerk I was in the past I could've left the kid in an orphanage or something. But looking at his face I j-just couldn't do that. I felt responsible for everything that he was going through. So I decided to bring him with me. When I brought him with me, he was really scared. He didn't trust anyone. Mom-Dad, no one. He was just in my arms. Whenever someone would come to take him away from me he would turn to me and hold me tightly. He also told me his name and never left me since I brought him."

I was crying by now. How can I not? He went through so much alone.

"Y-you didn't try to search for Ryan's mother?"

"I am not his father Bella, but Brittany is his mother. I did find her. After I found Ryan I asked him about his mother. Whenever I did that he would become sad and move away from me. So I stopped asking him. Then I asked Lucas to search about Ryan and he told me about Brittany. He said that Brittany never wanted a child so she left him with his Dad. She even tried to get an abortion when she was pregnant with Ryan. But Ryan's Dad didn't let that happen and after Ryan was born, he took Ryan with him and got a divorce from Brittany."

"How did you meet her then?" I asked.

Liam stared at me for a moment. All I could see in those pair of sea-coloured eyes was pain.

"She came to know that I was having Ryan from somewhere then she came to me and said that she has changed and stuffs like that. She told me that she came here to take Ryan with her. And me being stupid I believed her. I believed whatever she said and I gave Ryan to her which was my biggest mistake, the biggest mistake of my life."

"W-What h-happened after that? What happened to R-Ryan" I asked in a horrified voice.

I was scared, I don't at all trust Brittany.

"After she took him away from me, I was living my life as usual. But I felt something was wrong. So I again asked Lucas to search if Ryan is fine. The thing that he told me shattered my heart. He told me that Brittany gave Ryan moreover sold him to someone who.... who used to beat him up everyday and lock him in a dark room. I don't know what that man was, to hurt a kid. When I got to know about this I handed the man to the cops and took Ryan with me. I couldn't do anything about Brittany because there was no proof against her. The man said that she was not the one who sold Ryan to him and Brittany said that she lost Ryan, that someone kidnapped him. By faking tears, she made the cops believe her. But I know the truth very well even she confessed that in front of me."

I was shocked for a moment. What kind of a woman does that?

Selling her own child just for money.

"R-Ryan, w-was he hurt?"

Liam scoffed. "Hurt? He was in the worst condition. When I found him, he was locked up in a room, unconscious. I took him to the hospital, the doctor told me that he has scars of beating all over his back, handprints on his cheeks, and h-he was not given food for three days. You can't even imagine Bella what I felt at that moment. I wanted to kill that man for doing this to him, I wanted to kill Brittany for giving Ryan to that man. Above all, I wanted to kill myself for trusting her. Y-you know when I went inside the hospital room, he was lying there but when he saw me he sat up and hugged me. He just cried holding me. No complaints nothing. That was the first time he called me Dad. He said 'Dad I missed you'. I felt disgusted by myself for giving him to Brittany. I shouldn't have trusted her."

"That little kid had to go through the worst things. What did he do to deserve this much pain? Because of me, he lost his father and because of me, he had to go through all the pain because I was more interested in focussing on my own life. Because of me Amelia died. If I would've not let her drive that night, she would've been alive, Ryan would've been with his Dad. That one mistake of mine took everything away from Ryan.... From that day Ryan became everything for me. No one in this world means more than him to me. He changed me. He changed my life. I stopped with all the parties. I was more interested in spending time with him, to give him all the happiness he deserved."

"Bella he was scared to meet people, to make friends, to go outside. This was the reason I hired a home tutor for him. Whenever the tutor used to come, I used to stay with him. Slowly, he started trusting people other than me. You know everyone loved him in my family but no one became his friend, no one was so close to him with whom he can share everything. You were the only one. He told me so many things about you. Your likes-dislikes. Whenever I returned home, he just used to talk about you and the things you both did. This was the only reason Bella why I married you. I didn't want him to lose you. My carelessness has already done a lot of damage to him, I don't want to cause him any more pain. I want to see him happy whatever it takes. I am sorry if I am caging you like this but he means the world to me."

I smiled "Liam look at me." I made him turn towards me. Wiping his tears away, I held his hands in mine. "You are not caging me. You were being just a good Dad to him and Liam trust me no one could do what you have done for him. I don't have any complains, I am happy. And Ryan is not only your son, he's mine too. So, next time you say something like that I'll punch you."

Liam chuckled.

"And stop blaming yourself Liam. Nothing was your fault. It was just an accident. Please don't blame yourself for anything."

"I-I can't." He said in a broken voice.

"You have to try to let go things. What's gone is never going to come back Liam, so just let it go. You have so many good things to come in the future, if you don't let go off the past it will keep haunting you. You have Mom, Dad, Lucas, Ryan, everyone, live with them, live for them."

"Do I not have you?" He asked.

"Huh?"

"Are you going to leave me?"

I shook my head "No."

"Then why didn't you count yourself. I want to live for you, I want to live with you every moment."

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