At Sy Law Firm.

  Lana was sitting in her room looking at some data and trying to figure out a few cases when her intercom rang and she picked it up instantly.

  "Come here." Lana heard Liam from the other side so she quickly went out.

  "Yes?" Lana asked and Liam signaled her to sit on the couch where some papers were kept.

  "Go through?those papers. I asked for the history of Gilbert's incoming and outgoing calls for the last two months." Liam instructed and Lana sat down on the couch and started checking it. Liam was giving her a brief lesson on various things to go through. This was undeniably her best shot at learning the most minute aspects of studying cases.

  Lana went through each number and kept marking them with the identification of the other person until she came across something. She squinted her eyes as she noticed a suspicious number on the list.

  "This number…" Lana commented and looked at Liam who signaled her to show him.

  Lana picked the papers and walked to Liam's table. She went beside Liam and put the papers on his table.

  "Where?" Liam casually asked.

  Lana leaned a little closer to point out the number that she found suspicious, and this gesture of hers made Liam flinch. He had ways of being unable to control his actions when she was too close to him, and he was finding it difficult right then as well.

  'She's too close……' He mused in frustration. He could smell her fragrant scent and he not only closed his eyes to enjoy that fragrance but even tilted his head a little more to smell her properly.

  Lana was waiting for him to comment something about the number but when she didn't hear any response from Liam, she turned her head to ask him his view only to find him leaning towards her neck with closed eyes.

  She was speechless. She stood up straight and gawked at the man who was sitting there completely lost in something else… enjoying the closeness of the girl and actually taking in deep breaths.

  She immediately straightened up and asked, "What are you doing?!"

  Liam heard her voice and felt embarrassed by his own actions. He immediately opened his eyes and met Lana's questioning stare. He gulped and murmured, "Sorry, the smell is a little too distracting."

  "What?! Do I smell?" Lana hissed and moved her nose near her armpits to smell herself.

  Liam chuckled, watching how Lana sniffed herself. Lana noticed him mocking her and glared at him fiercely.

  "What the heck is funny?!" she mumbled with a twisted face.

  "You sniffing pervert, tell me what kind of smell it is that you seem to be drawn to." Lana asked out of curiosity, recalling how Liam sniffed her even on their first meeting in his office.

  Liam smiled and replied, "Sniffing I'm guilty, your honour, but adding pervert is not right. Do you know I can sue you for bullying or libel?"

  Lana raised her left brows and countered, "How about me suing you for harassment!"

  Liam laughed aloud hearing her counter, and Lana's jaw dropped. She almost forgot who she was and why she was standing in front of that celestial handsomeness.

  'Since when did he learn to laugh like that?' She thought with her eyes almost bulging out of her sockets in shock.

  "To be honest, your smell reminds me of someone… You know, it's a pleasing kind of scent… it's like fresh milk…" Liam stated, trying to describe the scent.

  "You mean like Gale?" Lana mumbled with a crumpled face.

  "No… Like my mom." Liam answered unconsciously, and when he realised what he had said the word 'mom', his smile vanished and his eyes became cold and?serious. His face suddenly became gloomy.

  Lana had then confirmed that Liam's mother was a very sensitive subject for Liam. She better be careful about it as well.

  "Anyway, I am going to mark this number. I don't know… Call it a hunch, but I feel something weird about the calls from this number. The police included it in the prank calls, but I think we have to double check on it." Lana commented, diverting the topic entirely so Liam could loosen his aura a bit and come back to normal.

  She wondered, seeing his stiff and cold reaction, what could be the story that could make him so low and sad about his mother. He didn't probably like to talk about his mother, but somewhere deep in his heart his mother still lived in his memories.

  Lana tried to find out about his mother on the internet, but there's nothing at all. She assumed the Sys must have manipulated all the data about Liam's mother, shutting down every detail on her. Like what her mother, Mrs. Huang, did to her biological parents.

  Lana quickly returned to the couch and scanned through the other pages after heaving a sigh.

  She and Liam were both silently busy in their own work when Jorge suddenly barged in the office, startling both Liam and Lana.

  "Liam!" Jorge said, panting while he raised his mobile phone.

  "Vice Chairman is dead, stroke." Jorge relayed. It was so sudden and no one had expected that something like this could happen.

  Vice Chairman Go was highly respected by Liam. It was him who put his full trust in Liam when he was just starting with the firm. He was like a second father to Liam.

  "Cancel the anniversary celebration, Jorge. We will reschedule it. Where is Sean?" Liam commented and quickly stood up.

  "He was rushed to Yang Globals but declared dead on arrival, Liam." Jorge said while he followed Liam.

  "How about Gracy?" Liam asked next and looked at Lana and said, "You come with me."

  Lana nodded and only grabbed her mobile phone, following Liam from behind beside Jorge.

  "Dona has already called her, and she is now arranging Gracy's flight back…" Jorge answered.

  Lana knew Vice Chairman Go by name. Like Liam, he was also a popular lawyer, Liam's senior. She heard Liam had trained under him and he was really good. But they had not heard anything bad about his health, so it was very sudden for him to have such a stroke.

  "I told him to have a regular check-up, but he never listened!" Liam grunted. The old man was too stubborn, he always said that he did not need any of it since he felt strong and healthy.

  Reporters had already been flocking outside Yang Globals hospital, waiting for the news about one of the most well-known and generous lawyers.

  As soon as they were inside the hospital and were briefed on Vice-Chairman's Go's case, Liam instructed Jorge to take care of all the reporters outside to release the statement they needed.

  Lana noticed Liam's face paled while he looked at the door where the Vice Chairman's Go's body was being prepared for the funeral. They were outside, sitting on the waiting chairs.

  "Sean was so stubborn. Of all the criminal cases he handled, he surpassed all death threats he received… nothing could harm him…… ever…… Who would have thought a simple stroke would take his life like that, like a thief…" Liam scorned.

  "Sean was like my second father for me…" Liam added with a stuttering voice, trying to control his tears from falling into his eyes.

  "That's why it's called a quiet thief…" Lana whispered. She did not know what came into her, but she held Liam's hand in her own and squeezed his palm with her soft and small one. She then turned herself and saw his depressed face.

  She felt her heart ache seeing him so distressed and sad.

  Waiting for a few hours to claim his body was a very heartbreaking task for Liam. Lana leaned a little closer to him and unconsciously pulled him for an embrace, letting his head to rest on her shoulder while she gently stroked his back.

  "It's okay to cry Liam at times like this. You lost someone important to?life…" Lana whispered, feeling the heavy heart Liam was trying to hide.