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 n 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 pped 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 bing thedy of the Silverman house?”


    “Mrs. Natalie, I’m not….” Natalie cut her off, and pped 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 orter, you’ll realize that themon girl can’t


    compare to the match I’ve arranged for you.” ording 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 thising.


    Ayden was having a breakdown. His hallucinations and delusions were particrly 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 ident, 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’sb was in the depths of winter.


    In his conversations with Osmond, there were only two topics, hating his mother, and missing Betsy


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    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 theb, 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.