The Glimpse of My Past

Liam’s P. O. V.

With down shoulders, I returned to my office and plunged myself back to work. I instructed Trixie that she could go home before I went inside and locked the door. I received an email from Dad that Leandro would soon be flying to Davao with Isabelle to take care of the latter’s properties there. He would have wanted me to join the two, but I replied that I wasn’t interested.

After that, I set a virtual and late afternoon meeting with some investors in Bordeaux, but no matter what I did, I still couldn’t focus. When Diane left, she brought my heart and mind along with her.

The meeting ended, and that made me rest my back on my black office chair. I stroked my nape to deal with the pain in my neck. It felt like there was a nail being hammered into my lower back, and the radiating pain struck upwards, hitting my brain. I slouched my head back and pathetically rubbed my palms against my face out of despair.

Then, I stayed still while breathing in shallow. All I wanted was for Diane and me to reconcile as soon as possible, but things were making it hard and impossible.

Isabelle had been calling me for the umpteenth time already, but I kept on ignoring her. After that, I crumpled a paper before I intentionally threw it on my office door. My nerves were throbbing out of frustration and anger.

The hell I care about you. Suit yourself with Leandro!

A few hours had passed until the hands of the clock ticked eight in the evening when my cellular phone rang again, and an unregistered number appeared right on its screen. I didn’t answer the call, thinking that it would be Isabelle again and she was only using a different phone.

But the device kept on ringing because of that unknown caller, and it somehow annoyed me for no apparent reason. In the end, I slid the ‘accept’ option.

“Hello?” I creased my forehead as soon as I answered the call.Content rights by NôvelDr//ama.Org.

“Hello, Liam? Bro, this is Lorenz. I’m sorry to disturb you, but Diane was so drunk right now, and I badly needed your help here. She was surrounded by men here in the club, and I couldn’t knock them out for they are quite too many. Hang on, I’ll text you the address-”

Concern and panic were evident in Lorenz’s voice, but I did not waste any of my time to speak again. I just turned off the call without even uttering a single word and hurriedly exited out of my office. If my chest only felt excruciating pain when Diane and I parted ways earlier, this time, it had been replaced by intense dread and nervousness.

Shit! Don’t they ever dare make the mistake of touching Diane, or else I would kill them!

With rushing steps, I headed straight towards the elevator and this made me want to transfer my office from the twenty-second to the second floor. I was already on my way to the executive parking area when my cellular phone beeped, signaling that I had received a message.

As expected, Lorenz texted me the address of that club. It was The Base Lounge Nightclub, but it was still an hour drive away from here. Why wouldn’t Diane just go home if she didn’t want to talk to me? I dismissed my thoughts since I had to double my time. I had to understand if she was hurting now. I immediately climbed inside my car and quickly drove it out of the parking lot.

I guessed this had been my longest drive ever. In an instant, I ran out of patience because I almost flew my car by how I pressed into the accelerator. The adrenaline rush was eating my heart now, and that was why I was able to reach the club for only thirty minutes instead of one hour. In case the CCTV cameras caught me with my over-speeding, Janno would be the one to be in-charge.

When I arrived at the parking lot of the said nightclub, I was in so much haste that I wasn’t even able to properly park my car. I didn’t care anymore, even though some random drivers would intentionally scratch it because it was indeed blocking the way. My steps were in a hurry to go to the entrance because my number one goal here was to find Diane.

But when I went inside, my eyes immediately narrowed, making me furrow my forehead. My temper sparked, and rage pulsed through my veins because I didn’t like the scene that appeared right in front of me.

Fuck, damn it!

Diane was doing pole dancing, and she was fucking surrounded by those partying men! They were about fifteen. My girlfriend was twirling over the pole, and she was sliding downwards while arching her soft body.

As a result, those men definitely looked like they were competing against each other about who would catch her first. What I loathed the most was her healthy breasts were almost popping out of her sleeveless shirt, making me want to raise hell at these four corners.

While some men couldn’t catch her the way they wanted, they were just crazily waving their hands in the air, shouting and cheering, as if they were already satisfied by what my girlfriend was doing. Diane did not seem to feel those assholes’ touch on her neck, shoulders, breasts, chest, waist, thighs, and legs. For that, I balled my fist in an instant while readying myself to attack them.

With clenched jaws, I sprinted towards the location of the pole. It was only a matter of seconds when I did a spinning flying kick, and all at once, three faces kissed the floor. Some people rushed to get out so they could avoid the commotion.

The other men irately faced me, but I was too quick to dodge them. I ended up twisting their arms as well as their fingers and knuckles. All I could see was dark as my mind surrendered to violence.

Lorenz had helped me pull and punch some men who were still ogling at Diane. I went ahead while knocking on those who were touching my girlfriend, one by one. I maintained my stance since the others angrily fought back. But it was too bad for them, how I dealt with wrath today was completely vital.

One guy succumbed to his oblivion when I jabbed him straight to the nose before I did a cross-punch, while the others collapsed with their bloody faces after letting them taste my revenged uppercut. Lorenz tried to stop me when I unstoppably punched and beaten someone into a pulp-the one who was scrumptiously holding the breasts of Diane.

Rage flowed through me like lava until it grew inside my stomach. It was like I let it all out like a dragon flaming everyone. My eyes were scorching with the desire of killing these bastards, burning them here until they entirely turned into useless ash.

When I had the chance to look at Diane, her hair was so messy, and was about to close her eyes out of extreme intoxication. My fury was suddenly replaced with concern. I worried about her when I realized that she already off-balanced herself on the pole, and her body would fall on the dancing floor anytime soon.

In my attempt to catch her body, I ignored the person who successfully punched me. It was only once, and he just hit me over the shoulder because Lorenz took care of him. Diane lost her consciousness, but I was fast enough to catch her before she fell.

The security guards had finally arrived to break the commotion, even though they were quite long to stop everything. Lorenz and I got out of the club safely as I carried Diane’s body. The police came afterwards, and they asked me what I preferred to happen.

Honestly, I wanted to sue those men for taking advantage of my girlfriend, but I would just let this one pass. I didn’t want to see their faces anymore and might just take legal action against the owner of this high-class nightclub. My lawyer would take care of that.

“I’m sorry, bro! I tried my best to stop her, but your girlfriend didn’t stop herself from drinking and getting drunk. I told her that we could just go back to EGC, so she could talk to you and clear things up, but nothing happened. She just nurtured her stubbornness,” Lorenz exclaimed.

He was holding Diane’s white blouse and carefully placed it on her chest. He also did me a favor of placing Diane’s bag in my car’s backseat.

It was a good thing that Lorenz was ready to protect Diane here. I couldn’t imagine what would happen if my girlfriend went here alone and drowned herself with alcohol completely. I just nodded and thanked him for what he did.

“It’s okay, bro. Thanks for accompanying her and for letting me know her whereabouts. I will be the one to take care of her.” I pressed my lips into a thin smile.

“It’s nothing, bro! She’s my best friend after all. So, I think I’ll be out here first? I still have a dinner date with my mother. Good luck, bro! I hope that the two of you can get along soon so that you can finally fix your problem together,” Lorenz said before he patted me on my shoulder.

I just nodded at him again while motioning that he could now leave us. Lorenz stepped away and went to where his car was exactly parked.

After kissing Diane on her forehead, I carefully placed her in the front seat. I made sure that nothing would hit her head, and she was comfortably seated before I securely fastened her seatbelt. After that, I turned around, sat in the driver’s seat and started driving away from that place.