Way Back To You
The Truth About the Past

Liam's jaw tightened, he walked back and forth inside the room while his face looked extremely irritated. Several times Hanna could hear the swearing words from Liam's mouth, showing how angry she was now.

“You'd better meet him first.” Then Hanna.

The middle-aged woman, someone who claimed to be Liam's biological mother was sitting in the living room.

“Who should I meet? Han, I don't want to be in touch with all my past. Even if she was my real mother, I wouldn't want to meet her. Why should it be now? I'm still living in an orphanage until I'm a year old. Why didn't he look for me at the orphanage, huh?”

Hanna understood Liam's anger and disappointment. If he was in Liam's position now, it could be that he would do the same. Yet the woman may have had her reasons behind her irresponsible actions a few decades ago.

“Liam.” Hanna stood up, grabbed Liam's hand and held it. “I know you're angry and upset, but it's better to deal with it now, right? Tell me what you want to say. If you don't want to accept it or admit it later, it doesn't matter. I will support all your decisions. But he's come all this way to our house, wouldn't it be a bit outrageous if we ignored him?”

“Hanna, the outrageous is her. If he feels neglected it hurts, why did he do it to me first? No Han, I don't want to see him. If you want to talk to him, it's up to you. But when I get out later, please make sure she's not there.”

Hanna let out a sigh, took a deep breath, then she nodded. “Alright, you wait here only.”

Hanna was hesitatingly sitting on the sofa, opposite the woman. He had already served a drink earlier, but clearly the drinking water had not been touched in the least. Hanna tries to smile, looking for the right words to tell if Liam doesn't want to see her.

“Sorry.” Hanna didn't know what to say.

“Call me Leanor, my name is Leanor.” The woman understood Hanna's confusion.

“Leanor..sorry once, but Liam is not wanting to be disturbed.” Hanna swallowed her saliva. “She... she's on break. So if you want to say something, just tell me.”

Leanor smiled knot. “I know. I've hurt him too deeply, how could he possibly want to see me?”

Hanna tried to reply with a stiff smile. He straightened his back, silently observing Leanor who was sipping her tea. There are some parts of Leanor that Liam also has like genetics. Just look at her curly hair, her tanned color, and also the arrangement of her eyebrows. Liam also has the same physical features as him.

“Is he okay? Her life happy?”

Hanna nodded. “So far he's lived well and happy. She has a foster father who loves her very much, also surrounded by people who also love her very much.”

“And you are.”

Hanna took a deep breath. “Factory.”

“Oh yes, I forgot. Your identity was reported in a press release a few weeks ago.”

“So you know Liam from the news that recently exploded?”

Leanor nodded. “I've been looking for Liam a long time but couldn't find him. I was almost desperate, until a while ago I saw the news on television. I recognized Liam, as soon as I saw him speak, my blood rippled immediately. Although we were separated very far and very long, it seems like the blood bond remains.”

“You've been looking for Liam?”

Leanor nodded back.

“Liam lived in an orphanage for eight years. It's still the same orphanage where you left it. If you have been looking for it for a long time, you can still find it, right?”

Although this woman admitted that she was Liam's real mother, somehow Hanna felt that all this was too strange and sudden. Liam is not a new figure. She has long been back and forth in the entertainment world, whether it be as a magazine model or an advertising model and video clips. Supposedly if indeed Leanor had a premonition that Liam was her son, she must have appeared since a few years ago.

Hanna read a paper that was the result of Leanor's health check for several years. His heart was filled, feeling bad for doubting Leanor. So this is why he left Liam? He was also struggling and he definitely felt that Liam would be tormented living with him. I am also a mother, and a mother will do anything for her child.

“Leanor.”

“I'll be home.” Leanor stood up even before Hanna finished her talk. “I'll give Liam a lot of time so he can take me back. And please take care of him. Maybe he will feel very depressed these few days because of my coming back in his life. But I know you understand my feelings because you are also a mother, right?”

Hanna followed the direction of Leanor's eyes that stopped in her stomach. Restlessly Hanna stroked her stomach, then nodded. “I understand. I'll find time to talk to Liam about this.”

After escorting Leanor until she got into the online taxi she booked, Hanna immediately closed the door. He went straight into the room, but Liam was no longer there. Sayup-sayup Hanna heard the sound of the ball clashing from the basement. It was so fast he got down, Hanna thought.

Liam was playing billiards and at the table there was already a bottle of wine. It's too early to drink because it's still nine in the morning, but Hanna knows why Liam did it. Liam was still wearing a nightgown with his hair still disheveled. His face looked sad and disappointed, and the amount of exertion he exerted while poking the white ball towards the yellow ball told Hanna that Liam was really very upset.

Hanna could hear Liam swearing violently when the ball he was shoving did not go into the targeted hole. He turned around, poured the wine from the bottle into the glass and downed it. He again rubbed the chalk billiard on the end of the stick, focusing on poking the white ball, but again he failed to put it in the hole and once again Hanna heard a swearing that was no less rude.

“You okay?”

Hanna took off the stick from Liam's hand. The man did not answer, but hugged Hanna tightly.

“She's gone?” ask Liam sissy.

“Mmm..” murmur Hanna. He stroked Liam's back and let the man immerse his face in Hanna's neck. “You okay?”

“I'm fine..” Liam took off his embrace. “Only a little...confused?”

Hanna knows maybe Liam wants to be alone right now. But how could he leave Liam with a bottle of wine and also his rather lame pool game this time. Although Liam seems to cover up his feelings, Hanna also knows that he is not okay and his body gestures look very agitated.

“You know my past is painful and dark.”

Liam finally opened his mouth and sat on the sofa not far from Hanna standing up.

“Currently, all of that is no longer a secret and I can't accept anything related to my past. I don't want to recall how bitter my childhood was at the orphanage.”

“But maybe he has a reason.” Hanna gave the sheet of paper that Hanna had hidden behind her body.

Liam read the paper by paper seriously. His face was flushed, both of his eyelids were glazed. A clear lump fell slowly down his face as his body began to tremble incoherently.

“He's seriously ill?”

Hanna nodded. “When you were born, he was struggling to cure his illness.”

“That's why he left me?”

Hanna nodded back.

“Every mother has her own reasons why she does something, let alone child.”