Too Late, Mr. Cooper: Your Bride Ran with Your Baby novel Chapter 467

Liam Grayson gritted his teeth in frustration. “Go ahead, have your blind date while I’m out of Crownport. Don’t mind me. It’s not like my feelings are hurt, or that my work is difficult at all.”

Liliana was at a loss for words. The poor guy was so worked up he was starting to talk nonsense.

“Alright, this has nothing to do with you anyway,” she said, trying to soothe him. “Just focus on keeping your grandfather company in the south.”

Two years ago, at Matthew’s urging, Liam had gone south to find his maternal grandfather—his birth mother’s father. Years ago, his mother had cut ties with her family to be with Matthew’s father, a decision that ended disastrously. After Matthew’s father callously abandoned her, she found herself pregnant and alone, sinking into a deep depression. She never dared to go home, too ashamed to face her parents, and never saw them again before she died by suicide.

When Liam’s grandmother learned of her daughter’s death, she collapsed on the spot. The shock was too great, and she passed away soon after. His grandfather, though slightly stronger, saw his hair turn white overnight. The consecutive deaths of his wife and daughter broke him. He spent years in a daze, eventually developing dementia and ending up alone in a nursing home.

When Liam, persuaded by Matthew, went to meet the old man, his grandfather’s cloudy, aged eyes suddenly lit up with a spark of recognition. In a brief moment of lucidity, he cried out, “My dear girl, you’re back… Daddy has missed you so much all these years.”

Liam looked very much like his mother. The old man had mistaken him for the daughter he had lost so long ago.

Seeing the pitiful sight of the old man crying his eyes out, Liam fell silent. His feelings were a tangled mess. He wasn’t ready to formally acknowledge their relationship, but he felt immense sympathy for his grandfather’s plight. He also wanted to honor his mother’s memory by showing the filial respect she never could—it was her unfulfilled wish. She had, in fact, desperately wanted to go home and see them again.

Unfortunately, the old man’s clarity didn’t last long. He soon slipped back into the fog of dementia, drifting through his days, unable to recognize people or hear what was said to him.

Liam had initially planned to bring his grandfather back to Crownport to care for him. But every time he tried to take him from the nursing home, the old man would become extremely agitated, crying and struggling, refusing to leave his hometown.

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