Chapter 28: You Are Beautiful

Liam:

She was looking at me. She wiped away the tears that were running down her face. I was really bothered by what she had experienced and I wanted to know who was behind it. Who was the person who caused her such terrible pain.

,,Daisy,,"

,,I'll tell you Liam,," Daisy whispered and looked into my eyes. I saw the pain and fear in her eyes.

,,I was sleeping.. Some men woke me up and.. pricked me with something. I don't know what it was but I fell asleep.. I woke up in a dark warehouse with no water or food. There were rats running around Liam. I was scared. I didn't know what they wanted to do to me. I didn't know if they wanted to kill me. I didn't know anything. Mark, my father, came to see me,,"

,,That bastard,,"

,,He told me it was because of who I was. He told me I would never see you again. That I should forget you. They say you won't remember me and sooner or later you will forget me. He threatened to have me killed. He said he would set it on fire and I would die alive. Some man came and raped me. My God. I was supposed to marry that man today. They wanted to sell me," she said and started crying. I grabbed her hand.

,,Can you handle it, Daisy?,,"

,,My mother came and confessed to me that I was her daughter. She told me that she had a passionate night with some man and got pregnant. They said she put me in an orphanage and then they came for me. With Mark too. My father said he was looking for me and couldn't find me. She said he was a surgeon and that he would never know he had a daughter," she said and started crying even more.

,,Daisy.. Who was it? Who was behind it? Mark?,,"

,,No. James. He came and told me. He confessed to me. He did it for that.. Because.. Liam, he wants money from you. All your property. He thought you wanted to give everything to me,,"

,,James is long since disinherited Daisy. I excluded him from the will. After my death, he will get nothing from me. I have already given him enough. How dare he do this? How?,,"

,,He told me that if I had not come into your life, nothing would have happened to me. He said that he would get rid of everyone who was with you. Liam, he wants your money and he is willing to do absolutely anything to achieve it. As I sat there, I thought about how I could have loved such a person,," she whispered. I gently stroked her face.

,,Daisy.. Look. I promise you that nothing like this will happen again. I want you to get out of this and I am here. I am with you,," I whispered and hugged her.

"You won't leave me?" she whispered, tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry. I won't leave you. I promise you that. I'm here and I'll always be here for you," I said and smiled. I heard the doorbell ring.

"No. No. Don't open. Please,"

"Daisy. Don't worry okay? Only Chris knows about this apartment. He probably came to see you. There's security. Nothing will happen to you," I said and went to open it. As I suspected, it was Chris.

"Hi. I came to see Daisy. How is she?"

"She almost died when the doorbell rang. Come on in," I said and followed her into the room. She looked at Chris and at me.

"See? I told you it was only Chris. Don't worry. He came to see you,"

"Daisy.. How are you?," he asked her and sat down on the couch next to her. I looked at both of them. Is it even possible that Chris is her father? They had the same smile. The same nature. Is it possible that fate brought us together so that I could find her father?

"Already... Better," she mumbled and covered herself with the blanket

"Liam. I brought you the papers. Everything is ready. We just need to arrange the date and time of the operation. There will be a whole team of surgeons there,"

"What.. What operation?" Daisy whispered and looked at me.

"Your operation. I want to operate on your spinal cord and.. I believe you will recover from it. It will be quite difficult. You will have to rehabilitate," I said

"The operation will be difficult. Several hours but I think it will be successful. Liam is an experienced surgeon," Chris said and smiled at her. I saw her eyes closing.

"Try to get some sleep. You'll feel better," I whispered and kissed her hair. She fell asleep. I covered her with the duvet and smiled. Chris looked at me.

,,What did you find out? Who did it? She's terribly thin Liam,"

,,She's malnourished Chris. I'm giving her IVs but.. she'll have to start eating. She has to get over it. I found out that my son is behind this. My son did it,"

,,James. But why?,,"

,,You thought I wanted to leave everything to Daisy. You thought she'd get money from me but the fact is she won't see a cent from me. Not a cent Chris,"

,,You disinherited him a long time ago, didn't you?,," he asked me and I nodded.

,,But this isn't being done. He wanted to ruin the life of a woman who's not to blame for anything. She's not to blame for our problems. James has already let me down several times, and in serious matters. She was raped,"

"Daisy will need your help Liam. What she went through is not easy. She will probably have nightmares. If this happened to my daughter, I will kill him," he said

"Do you think about your daughter often?"

"Every day Liam. Every day. When I see Daisy, it's like I would see her. That's why it hit me so hard. I think about what she looks like, where she lives, how she gets along with her parents, and if she knows that her father is somewhere,"

"She definitely knows. I believe that one day you will find her and I will help you with it," I said. I had to be absolutely sure that Daisy was his daughter. Only then could I tell him.

"Hopefully she will get over it. She is very young to be going through such pain and very young to be paralyzed. It is very cruel what James did to her. She thought that her parents were her parents and yet they caused her such pain,"

"Everything comes back to everyone. Including them and also my son James. I don't know what I raised him to be. Sometimes I think that James is not my son. This can't be my son. "I would never do anything as cruel as he did," I said and looked at Daisy. She was asleep.