SWNOVELS Chapter 2031
Chapter 2031
Ayden and Betsy’s secret love affair was finally discovered by Natalie.
At that time, Natalie had already arranged a match for Ayden, a wealthy heiress from a family of equal social status. The plan
was to get them engaged within the year.
But Ayden, who had never resisted his mother’s decisions, rebelled against this one.
Natalie knew her son too well. She knew that his resistance meant something was up. It wasn’t hard to figure out.
It was on Ayden’s birthday. The first and only birthday he spent with his beloved girl.c2
He told his therapist, “She stayed up with me until midnight, was the first to wish me a happy birthday. We woke up together, and
she took me out for the whole day. It felt like I was a kid again.”
When they returned home, their happiness was shattered.
Natalie was waiting at the door of his apartment. Dressed in all her finery, she slapped Betsy across the face, “So it was you all
along? The Silvermans took pity on you, paid for you and your sister’s education, and you repay us by setting your sights on
becoming the lady of the Silverman house?”
“Mrs. Natalie, I’m not....” Natalie cut her off, and slapped her again, “Who do you think you are?”
Ayden was dumbstruck. By the time he snapped back to reality, Natalie had had him dragged into the elevator.
Ayden tried to resist, but Natalie simply said, “Break up with her now, and we can pretend this never happened. Otherwise, the
next time you see her, she’ll be a corpse.”
She added, “Ayden, I don’t care if you hate me. Sooner or later, you’ll realize that the common girl can’t compare to the match
I’ve arranged for you.” According to the case file, Ayden said, “After that, I lost all contact with Betsy I knew my mother must
have threatened her too. She has a younger sister...
Rosalynn saw this coming.
Ayden was having a breakdown. His hallucinations and delusions were particularly severe.
He
said there was a severely injured grizzly bear in his house, always watching him. And there were little people, the size of fingers,
running around his
room.
The bear would attack him. When he fought back, he’d always get injured, with blood gushing from his head. The little people
kept him from sleeping. At first, Natalie thought he was putting on a show, trying to force her to let him see Betsy. But after Ayden
almost died in a car accident, Natalie finally realized the gravity of the situation.
She then contacted Professor Osmond, who had helped them in the past,
Ayden’s first visit to Osmond’s lab was in the depths of winter.
In his conversations with Osmond, there were only two topics, hating his mother, and missing Betsy
As Natalie watched her son slowly wither away, and after much persuasion from Osmond, she finally agreed to let Ayden see the
person he wanted to
see
By the time Betsy arrived at the lab, the two hadn’t seen each other for almost a year.
When Ayden saw Betsy, he didn’t react at first. He’d been talking to an imaginary Betsy a lot during that time. So he thought she
was another hallucination.
It wasn’t until Betsy hugged him, crying, that the numbness and indifference on Ayden’s face began to crumble.