Lana's jaw dropped, hearing those words from Jorge.

  Then she heard Jorge continue, "You know, Liam was once also a normal young boy who wanted to date girls but was not open to dating any random girl he met. Because Gracy and Liam had been with each other for a long while and knew each other really well, they were kind of best of friends. Gracy also had no other guy with her ever and Liam hence proposed to her once to be his girlfriend."

  No one actually could confirm it except for Liam on how deep his feelings for Gracy had been, and whenever Jorge would ask, Liam would give him an intense glare not saying a single word. But he knew that Liam asked Gracy to be his girlfriend before they graduated during college days. Only he knew about it because Liam went out for a drink and he was with him when Liam poured out how he felt sad.

  "What?! You mean he also had a relationship with Gracy? Is he really a woman-hater?" Lana irritatingly burst out.

  Her mind was now filled with the thoughts of how Liam already had two women and yet he claimed to be phobic to women!

  'Such a liar… Big liar!' She kept on cursing him in her mind while Jorge enjoyed her reactions.

  A smirk came and went on Jorge's good-looking face. He knew what her reactions meant, but probably she was not yet aware of her reactions at all.

  Jorge laughed at her exaggerated expression and said, "Don't misunderstand me. Liam and Gracy didn't have a relationship like he had with Gale. He only had Gale as his girlfriend. Gracy was like his childhood sweetheart, since we were in the same neighborhood and went to the same school. The friendship was a very normal thing between them, moreover Senior Go was Liam's godfather and both the families were pretty close to each other."

  "Lana, at that time they had yet to graduate and when Liam proposed to Gracy, she turned him down. She told him she liked him too, probably liked him quite a lot, but she also said that she loved her career and independence much more than she can love any man ever.

  She wanted to become a renowned model, and given the kind of background Liam has he wished to even support her in that career of hers, but she wanted to achieve something else in her life and didn't want any distractions and didn't want to be bound by any chains. She was clear that her priority in life was herself, and can never be a husband or boyfriend or a family."

  Jorge paused then added, "I think Liam liked Gracy but was quite hurt by the way she bluntly rejected him, and then he buried that feeling somewhere or maybe he erased it…… as Gracy's priority since she was a child was her modeling career. She wanted to be the world's top model, you see."

  "You mean unrequited love?" Lana clarified.

  "I won't say it like that…" Jorge answered.

  "You only said that you think Gale is not his first love… LOVE" Lana pointed out that made Jorge chuckle.

  "Wow… Our future lawyer indeed here is very good in dissecting details…" Jorge complimented.

  "I better correct my statement then. Maybe she was just a crush? Someone he liked very much in his youth? In fact Gracy liked him back too, so it's not unrequited love, but Gracy turned him down for her career and left." Jorge answered.

  "That brother of yours had so many women in his life that he is wrongfully called a woman-hater…" Lana mumbled with twisted mouth.

  "Don't worry… He only has you now." Jorge commented in a jest followed by a gulp, seeing the glare of Lana.

  "I mean, yes…… have you now…… to shoo away all those women chasing after him… trying to trap him… you see. He's a woman-hater now, so he doesn't need any woman in his life, and so he has you to save him.

  But I want to tell you something, Lan. He was not always like that. Today you see him as a cold, introvert, rude man, but there was a time when he was the most charming and happy and bubbly person. But he changed. One after other women in his life came and went in such a way that his perception for average women changed to a very wrong one.

  It all started with the pain he got from his mother. He started thinking that many women are obsessed about themselves and are all selfish. Then, Gracy followed, choosing her career and very harshly turning down his proposal.

  But then he met Gale. He started to change and opened up. He took his time in assessing Gale as a person and found that she was not a money-minded woman. But that woman ultimately gave him the most brutal blow of his life and that had the most painful impact on Liam's negative sentiments towards women."

  "Gracy's back now, Jorge…" Lana scoffed out of nowhere.

  Hearing Lana's scoff, Jorge shook his head and knew there was still a very long way to go for these two. "It's because her father died…" Jorge answered with a meaningful grin.

  Lana looked at him and did not respond, just shrugged her shoulders. For some reason, Lana felt uncomfortable with Gracy being around Liam.

  "Is Liam's mother still alive?" Lana asked next.

  "Yes. Oh, Lana, please stop asking me more details about Liam's mother. Liam will kill me if he ever learnt about me mentioning his mother. The entire family never mentions her. She's like a dead person for everyone, okay. Besides, I did not meet her. She was already gone when I started living at the Sys." Jorge complained with a wrinkled face.

  Lana laughed and said, "Alright Jorge… Maybe next time over a?drink we can talk about it and you can then tell me."

  Jorge crumpled his face and commented, "How rude! You really want to see me dead, huh?"

  After a few minutes of bantering with Jorge, Lana commented, "the sun is going down and will soon set."

  "I'll go ahead, Jorge." Lana added, looking at her watch. It was already late so she better leave.

  "Yes, I'll just tell Liam that you have left. Actually, I don't know why he pulled you also here when we could just leave you in the office." Jorge muttered, confused on why Liam brought Lana.

  Lana smiled faintly and said before leaving, "Never mind Jorge."

  Lana already left when Liam called Jorge.

  "Take care of everything and come here… Stay with Gracy. Where's Lana? She left her mobile phone in the car, Andrew answered my call to her." Liam asked.

  "She just left from here, probably going to hail a taxi. I think she will go to the office first since her car is there." Jorge answered.

  "What?! Come here quick!" Jorge heard Liam's voice grunted.

  "Is he getting mad about something?" Jorge mumbled while he ran back to where Liam was.