Your Son in Law is Back!

“This rude infertile is not worthy of your wait! Why are you breaking your mother’s heart, Brielle!”

Those were the words of Lady Lillian to her daughter, Brielle. A body laid below them, motionless, actually in a coma. The body belonged to Brielle’s husband, Young master Dominic Thales who had an accident four months ago and was confirmed to be in a coma.

Brielle clenched her fists and pointed at her protruded stomach. “My husband is an infertile? Then why am I pregnant mother?! Watch your mouth!” she pointed at her mother.

Her father leapt from where he sat and scolded immediately. “She means infidel, Brielle. And how dare you point at your mother because of this trash of a husband? We told you, we only needed you to marry into the family and be pregnant for him. Don’t fall in love with him!”

“Nonsense! I never agreed to that, father!”

A nurse comes in on the family yelling at themselves. “Excuse me but I don’t think it’s wise for the patient to hear all these.”

“Hear? He can hear us?” Lady Lillian went back. The nurse nodded and gestured for them to leave. The family sluggishly walked out of the ward.

“Brielle, we aren’t done!” her mother called after her daughter who was trying to leave.

“Yes, we are mother!” Brielle didn’t stop to wait.

Her mother yanked her arm, turning her face to hers. “Those kids you carry, don’t you want the best for them? Do you want a selfish conceited man to be their father?”

“But you sent me out for marriage to that selfish conceited man! Now, I love him and I realized he isn’t all that!”

Brielle received a slap on her face from her father, shutting her up. Her mother frowned at the act as she was pregnant and they were in public but nevertheless, she folded her arms supportively.

“Don’t shame the Allen’s family more than you already have. Your marriage to the Thales was just a formality for you to be an in-law and get the benefits of it. That’s all.” Master Allen cautioned before pulling his daughter away. His wife followed them with a sorry look.

Inside the ward, the body of Young Master Dominic Thales ran cold. He had heard his wife and her parents arguing above him. He heard their loud shouts outside the door as well.

He was trapped in a impermeable space, with a trapped consciousness. He couldn’t break free from the coma but his emotions were still intact.

Why did his mother-in-law hate him so much?

Lady Lillian had only been nice to him during the first few times they met before he married her daughter. So all had been a set-up?

If not of the accident that made him lay as vegetable in a hospital, would she and her husband ever dare speak that way around him?

His memories drifted to the first time he met Brielle. At his best friend’s party, celebrating the opening of one of his foundations.

Brielle Allen had been the lead engineer and coordinator in charge of handling the tech foundation for the young technicians.

She was a beauty, blended with intelligence and politeness. Those were things he looked for in a lady and he even saw more.

“You’ve been staring at her for a while. Go talk to her.” His best friend, Silas, had nudged him.

He frowned, looking away from Brielle. “I don’t know who the young lady is, and I’m sure she’s not here to get wooed at by a playboy like me.”

Silas chuckled, gulping his wine. “Since you accept you’re a playboy then you’re indirectly saying she deserves more than a playboy, right?”

“You can still try your luck. She’s indeed not your average woman.” Silas winked before moving away from him.

Dominic smiled at him, he placed his wine glass down at the table and looked over at Brielle speaking with the young technicians. He exhaled, making his mind up.

And that was the first time he did it, that was the first time he approached a lady without the intentions of going under her legs and dumping her a month later.

Maybe if he had tried harder, she might have ended like his other flings but he wanted something more real with her, he felt something more real. Like it was love at first sight. Or perhaps female engineers were a whole level of classy and attractive.

Meeting with her family after three months of dating, her parents, Master and Lady Allen, were very happy to know their daughter was about getting married to The Young master of Thales group, one of the leading enterprises in the country.

Never would he had foreseen that they only wanted him to marry their daughter for his money, and planned to take his wife and kids away from him, as he was in coma.

He heard the door of his ward open. It closed almost immediately. He cursed the fact that he could hear and feel everything happening in his surrounding but couldn’t affect it.

Then he felt a warm hand on his, and a soft sobbing of a child. His heat sunk realizing who it was. His little cousin, Lucas, who he had left alone in the world, alone with his grandparents.

“Uncle Domi, please wake up. Grandpa has been crying all through yesterday.” The boy climbed on the bed.

Dominic wanted to ask why. His grandfather had never acted like he cared so much about him, why would he cry that his grandson was in a coma? He always said he had another grandson, Lucas, to train whenever he was out of the way. And it had been four months already, why cry now?

Well, he couldn’t ask these questions lingering in his mind and only heard the tormenting sobs of his little cousin, the only closest family he had, after Brielle.

His body didn’t work with him when he tried to move his legs or speak consoling words to his cousin. He sensed the boy sleeping off on him, which won’t be safe, the boy kicked in his sleep and could hurt him or remove his drips.

“Uncle Domi,” Lucas spoke again. “Do you think grandma was serious when she said she’d send me to an orphanage since you can’t take care of me now?”

Dominic boiled. Why would they send him to an orphanage? Wasn’t he their grandson? Can’t they take care of him?

“Uncle Domi, I’m scared. Grandma said she’d kill herself and aunty Brielle said she can’t take care of me as she’d be travelling soon.”

The boy didn’t know but his words were scarring the heart of his Uncle Domi. He jumped down from the bed and looked at the motionless body that hadn’t been speaking to him since he had been talking.

“Can you hear me?”

Dominic, more than anything wanted to give a response, to tell him he was okay and he’d be there to take care of him. But his body had other plans.

“Grandpa was right.” The boy sniffed. “Without you, we’re all doomed. Thales group is doomed.”

Thales group? Dominic had more questions. Was something happening to their company? But then the door opened and closed and Lucas wasn’t heard.

Was he gone? Dominic feared the silence and vulnerability that being alone gave but it seemed he’d have to endure it, like he had been for four months already.