Chapter 171 - Her Greatest Fear

"Bill, son, I'm your mother. I'm your only family." Kelly still couldn't believe that her son was defending a woman for the very first time.

Kelly couldn't just stand that the woman whom her son wanted was Arabella, the murderer of her husband.

It would have been okay with her if not Arabella even if Bill would choose the poorest girl in the city but just not her. Kelly swore before in front of Ed's body that she would not allow Arabella to enter their family. She would not let it happen as her promise to her late husband.

Now that Bill was the one who's making the way, she knew it was the beginning of catastrophe in their family.

"Bill, that woman! Remember your dad. She's the...." Kelly refused to give in. For her, she was just saving her son from great damage before it was too late.

"She's the mother of my child." Bill deliberately cut her off.

Arabella felt the intense tension in the air. Adam was quick to hide his mom's back seeing Kelly again. Now, he understood that the woman who kidnapped him was also his grandmother. He had so many questions in his mind after witnessing his father and grandma's fight.

'Aren't they suppose to love each other like him and her mom?' Adam wondered.

"Bill, don't do this! That woman is a curse!" Kelly shouted angrily. Her elegance seemed to be built in that even if she was angry, Kelly still looked sophisticated.

"This conversation is over," Bill announced impatiently as he raised his hand. Some staff of the hospital came in running.

"What are you all doing?" Kelly shouted at the nurses and doctors who came to rescue Jaime. "Do you want to get fired?" Kelly's eyeballs bulged as she shouted in fury. She had all the right to fire them as she was one of the stockholders of the hospital.

The staff didn't stop as they went inside the stock room got Jaime on her stretcher and went away swiftly.

The scene was in a flash. Kelly was left with her anger to her own son.

"Bill, I hope you will not regret this!" Kelly looked at Arabella with extreme hatred and strode away furiously.

Adam held his mother's hand while he looked at his father. "Only men who were brave enough are capable to father a child." Adam then remembered his father's words. Looking at his father, Adam smiled proudly. It seemed his father was not a coward. He knew he had more to discover about his father. Little by little the scene made a big impact on Adam's heart.

"Let's go!" Bill suddenly sounded.

With his voice, Arabella regained her senses.

"Wait. What?" She was still trying to absorb everything that happened and now his words made her froze again.

"Everything is settled here. We are going home." Bill answered plainly like nothing had happened.

"Home?" Arabella felt something wasn't right. She frowned at him.

"Adam let's go!" Arabella hurriedly said. She was supposed to thank him for what he had done for her mom but for a person who suffered a lot in his hand, she could not feel any gratitude towards him.

She could not stop thinking that everything he had done for her had a price and now, she was absolutely right.

'Home? He must be dreaming!' She thought with disgust.

"Adam let's go!" Arabella repeated seeing her son was unmoved.

She thought her voice wasn't loud enough that made Adam unable to hear her but when her eyes landed on him, Arabella was stupefied. She raised and centered Adam as her world. All expressions of her son were engraved in her heart so she could easily tell what Adam was feeling right now.

"Adam... baby," Arabella uttered with teary eyes. Is Adam really leaving her?

“Mom…” Adam uttered with a low and sad tone.

“Let’s go, Adam.” Bill sounded again coldly giving his hand to the little boy.

Adam looked at his mom for a while with a muddled expression. Arabella instantly felt not right. Sudden pain in her heart had surged up.

“Adam, is this man blackmailed you? Did he make bad things to you?” Seeing Adam’s expression, Arabella had a gut feeling that Bill threatened Adam as he always did to her.

“No, mom,” Adam responded shaking his head as a sign of strong disapproval.

“Then, are you leaving mom?” She was hurt by her own words. Deep inside she felt like her heart was sliced with a sharp blade. The slice was slow and smooth that made her feel the sharp blade every move it made.

Adam didn’t answer instead he lowered his head.

“Son,” With a loving tone, she called him again. Never in her life that she thought Adam would leave her for his dad. His reaction now was telling her that on this day, her greatest fear was about to happen and she was not prepared for it. She would never be prepared to separate herself from her son.

“Let’s go, Adam.” Bill sounded again while his hand was hanging in the air waiting for Adam’s hand.

Arabella stood up and looked at Bill sharply. “Who do you think you are?” She shouted at him as she could not accept that a man who wanted to abandon his child from the start was now playing a heroic father and her son who she raised all by herself was now contemplating to go with her. She wanted to scream at how unfair the world was.

“You can go with us if you want.” Bill just smirked at her using a plain but sarcastic tone.

“You are such a scheming person!” She was unable to control her strong resentment towards him. Her voice became louder.

“No fighting.” Feeling the strong tension in the air, Adam suddenly butted in. He knew his mother was already angry and she knew how stubborn she would be if it reached the peak.

“Mom… I want to go with my….” Adam staggered with his last word. “With my dad.” He continued with a soft low tone. He had no dad to call since birth so it was an awkward word for him. He was not used to the word and also to the person whom he called dad.

‘I’m sorry mom. I hope you can forgive me on this.’ In Adam’s heart, he was praying that his father’s plan would work.

“Whatever happened, you have to go with me,” Bill instructed Adam earlier in his office.

“But… I am the protector of my mom. I protect not hurt her.” He refuted with a brave tone.

“Look buddy, your mom is very stubborn,” Bill uttered with furrowed eyebrows. “And she loves you very much. So, having said that, you are her greatest weakness.” Bill stated his sentences like a strategic plan.

Adam listened carefully. She studied Bill’s expression. Though he was just a young boy, he could easily tell who’s serious and sincere to his words. He learned it from the orphanage where people were less fortunate.

“Can you promise me that you will not hurt my mother anymore?” Adam suddenly asked with a fierce question out of nowhere.

Bill was stunned for a bit. “Yes.” He answered.

“What about your girlfriend?” Adam asked remembering the girl who loudly announced that she loved his father so much.

Bill was stunned again. Adam always gave him surprise questions.

“She’s not my girlfriend,” Bill answered lazily. When Trishia saved his son, he ordered to block all the news that happened at the wedding and issued a legal warning to the companies who would not obey his order but some short scenes were still uploaded specifically about Trishia in some social media from the guests and were spread rapidly. His men were bustled every day by tracing and deleting all the links.

“Good,” Adam answered satisfyingly.

Just right after Adam’s approval, Bill’s phone rang.

“Sir, your mother is here in the hospital and she wanted to throw Ms. Jones’ mother outside.” One of his eyes in the hospital called him.

“I’m on my way,” Bill answered and they drove to the hospital quickly.

After remembering their conversation with his dad in the office, Adam held his father’s hand.

Arabella trembled but she tried her best to compose herself. If earlier she felt her heart was sliced slowly now, she felt her heart was stabbed repeatedly by a pointed sharp knife. It was too painful that she wanted to collapse and just forget that she had not seen Adam holding his father’s hand.

The feeling of losing her son again and being betrayed by her own son made it very painful. Her tears wanted to come out but she tried her very best to hold it as she didn’t want Bill to see her crying and then laughed at her. She would not give him the privilege to do that especially in front of their son.

“Adam.” All she could utter was his name.

“Mom?” While holding Bill’s hand, Adam was reaching Arabella’s hand too. He wanted to see how family works in so many movies. There’s a child with a father and a mother in one house. Adam was crossing his fingers at the idea.

His father is a bossy one and his mother is a stubborn one.

Would it really work?

Adam could not help but wonder.

Arabella was caught in her pain. All she thought was Adam would never leave her over his dad but she was wrong. She was wrong to think that Adam would choose her over anyone else. What happened to her sweet boy?

The little boy who wanted to protect her?

That boy who had promised not to leave her forever?

In just one day, her little boy had changed. In just one day, his father changed him. All the fun and loving memories they made together seemed instantly vanish away because of the sudden presence of his father.

With Adam’s action, she felt the whole world had abandoned her.

Driven by strong pain, she looked at Bill seriously, “Take care of your son.” She said without any glow in her eyes, knelt down, and kissed Adam’s forehead lovingly. “I love you, my son.” After her words, her tears came out uncontrollably. With a low head, she quickly turned around and strode away.

“Mom!” Adam shouted. He felt very wrong.

“Mom!” He shouted again but Arabella didn’t stop until she was out of their sight.

Bill squeezed the little boy’s hand who suddenly became dispirited.

“I told you. She is the most stubborn.” Bill remarked just to bring back his little’s man’s vigor but Adam stayed rooted in his position with an unhappy face.

“You want to play a game?” Unsatisfied with his son’s expression, he knelt with one leg then he lifted Adam’s chin. Adam looked at him with teary eyes then he truly understood the strong bond between his son and his mother.

“It’s gonna be okay,” Bill said messing his hair.

“Do you trust me?” Bill asked with eyes waiting for a good answer.

Adam nodded slowly. He had no choice but to trust him.

“Let’s go home. Your mom will go home tonight.” Bill announced confidently.

Meanwhile, Trishia had to stay in the hospital for her healing. Senator Meyer never visited her only her mom. Doctors were coming in and out in her room to check on her wound. She was not used to staying in one place and with her condition, it was super torture for her.

The only drive for her was to hope that Bill would visit her soon. If only he would visit her there every day she would not mind staying in the hospital for the rest of her life.

While Trishia was caught in her deep thinking about Bill, someone suddenly knocked on her door. She smiled expecting that it was Bill. They say your mind is powerful. Whoever or whatever you think will happen. So probably the man outside is Bill as she kept on thinking of him.

With her most melodious voice, “Please come in.” Trishia sounded.

The door opened.

“You!” Trishia sounded shocked and displeased.

The man smiled at her and walked closer to her bed.

“Yes. It’s me.” He said playfully. His cool was a bit odd but natural.

Trishia frowned. She was confused about the man’s presence.

Seeing Trishia’s reaction, the man smiled as he gave his hand to her to shake.

“William Zimmer at your service..” The man said and smiled.