Chapter 105 - Black Step

Liam was lost in deep thought, he took deep slow breaths, Lorna's words ringing in his head.

"I'm leaving the agency"

He sighs, closing his eyes.

***

Few Minutes Earlier

"I'm leaving the agency," Lorna said with a shaky breath.

Liam froze with widen eyes facing her.

"Lorna" he began.

"You don't have to do this".

"I have to Liam, not just because of my relationship with you... I'm going against every code I was taught as an agent, I'm siding with you, I'm a ghoul tracker, I have a ghoul for a neighbor, and what do I do about it? nothing, because either they are children or a harmless pregnant woman... God Liam, I don't know what to do, I don't know what I believe in anymore" she said, her voice breaking, tears streaming down her cheeks hotly.

"I can't help but question my agency, I mean why do we even hunt ghouls when not all are bad, and my family was killed by those same ghouls I pity now," she said in distaste.

"Do you pity me, Lorna?" Liam asked with an unreadable expression.

"I'm not saying that Liam," she said shaking her head negatively.

"Then what are you saying Lorna?" he demands through clenched teeth.

She faced him with her teary eyes.

"I'm saying it's too much to handle," she said faintly but he heard her.

"It's like I'm drowning and I can't breathe... it's hard for me Liam" she adds sobbing.

"I told you I would ruin you," Liam said sternly.

"And I said I don't care"

"Do you Lorna? do you not care?" he said with sad eyes.

She looks away not wanting to meet his eyes.

Liam sighs letting a huff escape his lips.

"No matter how we try to run from it or escape it, we will always be worlds apart and the reality will keep sulking in," he said with a heavy breath.

"The reality of me still coming after the agency, and you know what Lorna I can't stop no matter what or no matter who it is" he adds sternly.

Lorna gulps hard at his words, the tears still falling.

"I know you won't," she said meeting his eyes.

"You have this thirst for revenge to bring down the agency, the one place I call home" she adds.

Liam's looks darken.

"Me leaving the agency doesn't mean I'm choosing to side with you, I'm not, I'm sick and tired of lying to my best friend and the people I care about, I can't keep making sacrifices for you because at the end when the boat sinks I will go down alone"

"You think I don't make sacrifices for you? Lorna my organization I built with everything I have been having doubts about me because I'm with the very agent that works for the agency that took everything from them, I have a goal Lorna, every ghoul in my organization depends on me, at the end we will both sink in our boats".

"In the end, I'm not just ruining you, Lorna, you're ruining me too" he adds.

They stared into each other eyes, no words said, their eyes burning in theirs, their hurt and pain both evident, the silence brooding around them.

"We both have choices, we both have what makes us who we are, we can never turn away from that" Lorna said her head bent down a bit, she sighs raising her head.

"I have made mine," she said wiping the tears on her cheeks but they kept coming nonstop.

A ghost smile found Liam's lips, it didn't reach his heart, Lorna could see it, the pain, the thirst for blood, the anger all directed at the very agency she works for, the reality of their divided worlds kept growing apart, trying to merge it would only cause more rifts and Liam knew that with every fiber of his being.

"I'm going against everything I thought I believed in, I can't keep up with that, the covering and deceit all because I love a ghoul who's still bent on destroying the one place I call home and killing the only family I have," Lorna said as the tears fell, she stood shivering at the shocking but true cause of their fate.

Liam felt like his heart was pierced by a spar, a pain he couldn't bear, he tuns backing her with tighten fist almost drawing blood. No matter how he was madly in love with this agent, the one lady that opened his heart ever since Riley, he still couldn't back down, he still couldn't stop, no matter what, he knew very well leaving right now there would be no turning back, he had made his choice so he was going to take the first step just like she did when she decided to leave the agency, he walks away.

***

*Ding Sound*

Liam slowly opened his eyes, hearing the ding sound, he steps out of the elevator, every fiber of his body screaming at him to turn back, but he couldn't, knowing very well if he did he would only create more rift between them and that would only destroy them further. He could hear her cries because of his enhanced hearing and what's weird enough he could feel her pain.

'Liam not okay, without Lorna' Ghost said in his head, Liam blocks his thought away, he didn't need Ghost's aggressiveness right now.

"Liam?" a voice came behind him, he instantly halts his step.

"Is that you?" the voice came again.

"Trent could you help me out, I'm so tired," Sid said groaning.

Liam froze when he heard his name. 'Trent?' he thought with shaky eyes as memories of his childhood friend flood his head.

"Oh sorry honey, I thought I saw someone I know," Trent said helping his wife with the bags, before turning back to where he saw the man in black exciting the building, but he was gone.

"Well he's gone maybe it wasn't him, since he looks like someone you know, you could give him a call later" she shrugs.

His eyes land on his wife.

"That's it, Sid, the person I thought I saw, I haven't seen him for years," he said as his eyes grew wistful with memories of the past, regret, the pain was evident.

Sid watches her husband with worried eyes.

***

Liam walks out of the building sighing, another painful memory found him, something he chose to avoid, fixing his hood properly, he walks out avoiding prying eyes.

In a car close to the building, Natasha took pictures of Liam exciting the building, a smirk plastered on her lips, she saw everything, the black ghoul was leaving Lorna's apartment.

"So this is what you have been hiding Lorna," she said in amusement because she has finally proven her suspicion was right.

"Well, not for long".