Adonis
I heard the gun go off and saw my father collapse, Noah took the shot at the right time.
I see Lillian fall to the ground.
I kneel in time and catch her, so her head doesn’t hit the ground. I see my father’s men begin to panic; Liam comes down from the rafters where he and Noah were and runs to me.
“I got her.”
He tells me and I nod. I leave my Lillypad with him and walk to my father's body. The men stop and watch me.
“I am not weak father. I just have something worth protecting now.”
I say to him as I watch him choke on his blood.
“You will never be good enough. She will never love you, how could she? Now that she knows I had her father kill her own mother.”
He says to me gasping for air with every word he says. I place a foot on his chest and stomp on him again and again.
“This is for me, my mother and everything you’ve put me through.”
I say with each kick becoming more and more powerful. I feel a hand on my shoulder and look over.
“That’s enough .”
Noah tells me and I run my fingers through my hair. I look at the men.
“My father is dead. Which makes this organization mine now.”
I say to them, and they look at each other.
I look at the same men who were cowards away while my father took my mother's life.
Just like they cowered away now watching me take my father's life. I run my hand through my hair again and walk to where Liam has Lillian.
“I can get her from here, bring a car around.”
I yell to the men, and they nod. I need to get her somewhere safe; I need to get her help.
I get Lillian into the back seat and slide in next to her making sure she is safe, I take a knife from my pocket and cut her binds off. I look at the marking on her beautiful skin and I feel a pain in my chest.
“I’m so sorry baby.”
I tell her suddenly I feel something and wipe my face. I finally had let myself cry in front of someone and not just anyone but her. I smile to myself, only she can get me to become vulnerable like this. I’ll have to protect her from here on out by any means necessary. I begin to let myself cry while Liam takes us to the hospital. Suddenly I feel a hand on my cheek. I look and see Lillian is looking at me with half-hooded eyes.
“Don’t cry , it’ll all be ok-”
She says to me before she fades again. I can’t help but bring her closer to me wanting nothing more than for her to wake up again.
“You have to be ok baby, ok? You must because I- I don’t know how in the world I would be able to live without you.”
I tell her as I lift her hand to my face kissing her palm.
“Princess, you are my anchor. Without you, I’ll drift off to places that aren’t safe. I need you to always bring me home.”
I kiss her one last time before I let her go, I watch as they take her away from me. Not knowing how this will end. My fears come to the surface, and I realize that I have more work to do before I can live happily with my Lillypad.
Lillian
I wake up to the sound of a soft cry, I open my eyes and feel groggy with sleep, and I move my arm and wince with the pain shooting straight into my back. I look over to my side and see Mary and Elizabeth, Mary is holding Elizabeth while she cries.
“Liz is crying?”
I say in a husky voice.
“Toughen up buttercup, people will think you're a fragile dandelion.”
They both snap their attention to me and rush to my side.
“Oh my god Lills!”
Mary embraces me and I wince at the contact but hug her back, I look to Elizabeth and motion her to come in for a hug.
She begins to cry again and runs to me.
“I-I’m s-so s-s-sorr-”
She can’t finish her sentence between her sobs, but I know she means it. Liz isn’t one to cry so easily. I pat her head as she cries in my lap. Suddenly there is a knock at the door.
“Ah, welcome back Ms. Han, how are you feeling?”
The doctor asks me, and I smirk.
“Like I've been hit by a train.”
I tell him and he smiles, he walks over to get my pulse and check my vitals.
“Well, everything seems good, you have a fractured rib, and a black eye, a small cut in your mouth as well but other than that you and the baby are perfectly healthy.”
Suddenly the blood drains from my face. Did he just, no he couldn't have.
“I’m sorry doctor but did you tell me and my baby?”
I asked him again, reaching for my stomach.
“Yes, ma’am it looks like you are about 4 weeks, it’s growing well.”
I look over to the girls who look just as shocked as I do.
“Th-thank you, sir.”
With that, the doctor nods, and leaves.
“Lilly?”
“Hey, are you ok?”
The girls ask me, and I feel tears begin to form in my eyes. I look at the girls.
“Liz, tell me what happens next year on my birthday.”
I turn to her, and she looks at me concerned but nods.
She tells me everything about how my father was the CEO of the Corales corporation. How my supposed mother and sister were just decoys to give me a cover and protection.
She then told me how my father asked her mother to watch over me, which became her task in the end. How was sent to kill Maxwell and me because he tried to trade my life for his. She then tells me how came to see me after the incident with Maxwell at the food truck stop.
How he told her he fell in love with me and was going to protect me by any means necessary. Hearing those words my heart skipped a beat.
“So, he’s been in love with me this whole time?”
I ask her and she nods.
“He’s been doing everything he can to make sure you came out alive at the end of everything.”
Suddenly there is another knock on the door, and it opens. There he was, his beautiful green eyes with a hint of red and puffiness from crying, his messy hair slicked back, holding a bouquet.
“Hey Lillypad.”
He says to me and the girls look at me and then to him,
“Hey Liz, I think I want some ice cream.”
Mary says.
“Yeah, you know what that sounds soo good right now.”
She says back sarcastically, I roll my eyes, and they kiss my cheek leaving me and alone.
“Hey.”
I tell him and he walks closer placing the flowers on the table next to the bed. He stands next to me, and I look into his eyes and see the worry and guilt in them.
“I-I’m-”
I reached my hand out and held his face. He sits on the bed holding onto my hand.
“I know, Liz told me everything.”
I look at the man who has my heart and when he looks me in the eyes, I see tears spill from them. Oh, my beautiful monster of a man. I kiss his tears away; I kiss his nose and forehead.
“What your father did to your mother was not your fault. What he did to my father and mother is not your fault.”
I tell him as I kiss his cheeks. I stop for a moment and look into this beautiful man's eyes. I kiss him and kisses me; he kisses me as if I had just returned from the underworld. This kiss is soul-binding, we break away from the kiss and rest on each other's forehead.
“I love you, Lillian Han.”
“I love you too, Malith.”
We lay in each other's arms in the bed talking about everything, he tells me how his mother died at his father’s hands as well, how he watched him murder her in front of his eyes. He then told me what happened when I passed out.
“So does that mean?”
“Your safe baby, I promise.”
He says as he lifts my chin to kiss me.
“There is also something you should know.”