Way Back To You
Do You Still Believe Me?

The clock had shown at eleven o'clock at night, when two pairs of people were still gathered in the living room at Hanna's house. Hanna and Lona sit side by side, so do Liam and Bobby. The eyes of the two women were sharp and solemn, inversely proportional to the two men in front of them who tended to look down and hide their faces.

“So you two won't talk?”

Hanna broke the silence between them. Liam and Bobby looked at each other, but neither spoke a word.

“Good.” Hanna stand. “This is your last chance to explain what happened to me. But because you do not want to discuss it and do not want to be frank, then you can go home. Let's just say I never asked for this meeting and don't expect another meeting like this at a later date. I won't give you the slightest chance to talk.”

Lona looked at the two alternately in silence. He was also waiting for what the two would say, what explanation they would say. But even though he and Hanna had waited long enough, none of them wanted to talk.

“Han.” Lona stood up. “It looks like they're here just to interrupt our break hours. You better just throw them out so we can sleep well tonight.”

Liam raised his face. He looked at Hanna inside with a feeling of longing. His eyes dropped to Hanna's neck. The reddened scar was still clearly depicted on top of Hanna's white skin and just looking at her Liam could tell how sick Hanna was when the rancid bastard strangled her. But they've already executed half of this plan and the deal originally, they won't involve Hanna. But seeing Hanna standing right in front of him, with her face still a little pale and reddened marks on her neck made Liam a little hesitant.

“Alright..” said Hanna again. “You can go home.”

Liam couldn't hold back Hanna as her beloved woman left her for the room. The atmosphere in Hanna's living room was back in silence, Lona also did not speak at all and just stood staring at the two alternately with her arms crossed at the chest. Liam can't take it anymore. The more she said if she had to shy away from Hanna, the more she wanted to hug Hanna. No, Liam doesn't want to be separated from Hanna.

He stood up but Bobby held his hand. "What do you want to do? Don't tell me you're gonna tell Hanna everything."

"Bob, look how messy Hanna is. I can't lie to him anymore."

Liam won't fight his heart anymore. He takes Bobby's hand off, and in an instant he has already darted into Hanna's room, leaving Lona and Bobby both in the living room.

“For what are you here?”

Hanna was surprised because Liam walked into her room as she was about to change her clothes. She half-shouted as Liam hugged her suddenly very tightly, barely even making her unable to breathe.

“Let go of me.” Hanna tried to push Liam with both hands.

But the more he forced himself to take off Liam's embrace, the more Liam carried him even tighter in his arms. “Let go of me.” Hanna pushed Liam again.

Liam didn't obey. Hanna hit Liam's body many times, pushed him back to take off his embrace and this time it worked. Hanna's body was released and Liam would embrace her again and Hanna unconsciously floated her hand to Liam's face. With a hunting breath, Hanna tried to control her trembling self. Her tears fell, partly because she was still traumatized and frightened, partly because she regretted slapping Liam.

“Han..” Liam's tears come tumbling down, staring at him with a wail. “I'm sorry..”

“Sorry? That easy? After what you did, after all the injuries you left behind just like that, you came to apologize? Who do you think you are?” Hanna squealed bitterly.

“You broke my heart, not just once but many times. You make it hard for me to trust you, you make me wonder if everything you do is sincere, you make me look like a cheap woman, you make me look stupid.” Hanna sniffles. “You made me not believe in myself Liam.”

Hanna fell on the floor. She was crying hugging herself. “I even asked myself many times, why should you? Why should I meet you and conceive your child? Why?”

“Han..” Liam knelt down before Hanna. Her tears also flooded her face as everything Hanna said was too precise. As soon as he told Hanna, she admitted it. She overturns Hanna's life, pulling the strings of their relationship and making Hanna confused. He deserved all the mockery from Hanna or even if Hanna slapped him so many times, it was still very decent.

“Why are you treating me like a fool? Liam.I hate you...I hate you.” Hanna yelled again while hitting Liam's body many times.

“I hate you.” he gave up, got tired and dropped his head on Liam's chest.

“I hate you Liam.” He hit Liam's chest again in his sobs, but this time his hands are no longer powerful.

Slowly Hanna's hand slowed down to a slow lunglai, and all that was left next was her sobs. Hanna spilled all her disappointment and heartache on the chest of Liam, the man she hated so much, yet she also realized she couldn't get far from Liam.

“Hanna.”

Liam's hand slowly moved around Hanna, stroking Hanna's head gently and inhaling the scent from her hair. Liam still continued to shed his tears in silence, realizing the enormous impact of all the unilateral decisions he took. Hanna was so tormented, she suffered so much. It wasn't just the deadly terror that made Hanna unable to live her life in peace, but also her behavior. With Hanna's pregnancy like this, of course it was very difficult for Hanna.

“I'm sorry Han.”

Back Liam stroked Hanna's back affectionately, trying to repeat everything from scratch again. All the things he has ruined –trust and hope, Liam promised to return it completely to Hanna.

Liam nodded. He complies, and while to make Hanna calm down, she also shuffles backwards until her body rests in Hanna's wardrobe. Liam observes Hanna, realising that Hanna is wearing only a white Chemise –nearly laughs. The lingerie model features Hanna's straight shoulder line as well as her straight neckline. From where she sat, Liam could see a red circle still imprinted on Hanna's neck.

Damnit. It was a sign of how incompetent he was to be Hanna's guard man.

“Tell me, why did you do it?”

Hanna could already control herself completely. She needed to calm herself down, not only because she was already too shocked for all the events she was going through, but above all, her pregnancy was more important. Doctors kept asking her to avoid stress and Hanna knew she had to comply if she didn't want her baby to accept all the repercussions.

“I was forced.” Liam looked at Hanna softly and was full of longing.

“Forced?” Hanna grunted annoyedly. “Why do you do it if you have to?”

“Han, all these things that happened to you really scared me to death. I'm afraid of losing you and.”

“But in reality you are trying to get rid of me.” Cut Hanna fast and Liam can't seem to disagree.

“True.” Liam swallowed with great difficulty. “And I regret Han.”

“Omong empty.” murmured Hanna slowly.

“Hanna, trust me, this is just our scenario of three.”

Hanna raised her eyebrows, confused. “Senario? You three?”

Liam nodded. “I, Bobby and Noah devise a plan to find out who is behind all the terror that strikes you in a row. In order to secure you, I had to act as if I was removing you from my life because I thought the person who did this was obsessed with me. He must have known about our relationship and that's why he attacked you.”

Liam waited for Hanna's reaction, but the woman only showed a flat face.

“I think with word spread I parted with you, then he won't touch you. But it turns out I was wrong.” Liam smiled bitterly. “..he even more daring to attack you blatantly.”

Liam could hear Hanna's heavy breathing and he was happy because it meant that Hanna listened to all of her stories well.

“I know Jhon just made up about that video.”

Hanna raised her face, looking at Liam with both eyes that were back in tears. “What?” hisses.

“I'm sorry Han.” Liam is approaching Hanna.

Liam thought Hanna might kick him or ask him to sit back away from her. But out of her expectations, Hanna was silent and just stared at him wistfully.

“I know the video is fake, it's not you. But I need to convince Jhon as if I did believe in the video and was disappointed in you. It's all just.acting.”

“What?”

“A layman like you may not find the strangeness in the video, but someone like me, who lives daily in a hypocritical world can quickly find a loophole and know if the video is just an edit. I'm sorry.” she stroked Hanna's face. “Only that's the right reason to keep you away from me.”

“You did it on purpose? You've been working on this plan since the beginning?” hanna's tears fell down her face.

Liam wiped away Hanna's tears and smiled bitterly. “Since our baby's ultrasound photo leaked, my feeling is that the culprit is not my CEO. And the more I get here, the more certain it is that the culprit is someone close to you, or an office with you.”

“Hah?” hanna's face flushed in shock followed by a small nod from Liam.

“All the things that made you almost lose your life, starting from juice mixed with drugs, then photos of USG scattered, the last incident last night. We've checked all the CCTV footage, the office attendance database, even the security guards at Bobby's office. Everything was as clean as it was set up and we couldn't find anything, everything was almost flawless and only the person working in Bobby's office understood how the building worked.”

Hanna gulped. He looked confused, frightened and worried. All of the complicated things Liam said made him creepy and chaotic.

"But I won't let you out of my sight again.." Liam touched Hanna's frightened face again. "Han, do you still believe me?"