Chapter 54: 54

I’m still holding her in my arms but I couldn’t see her expression really well. Still I wanted to know. If she is blushing by my touch? If she is shocked seeing my sudden action? If she is angry because of the past incidents but I got to know nothing.

"What the hell are you doing?" Eric shouted and tried to pull Chloe from me but my grab was too tight on her.

"Leave her!!"

I didn’t respond.

"I send you freaking leave her!!" he shouted but still I didn’t.

There was a silence between us when Chloe finally said, "Leave me, you are hurting me." her voice sure sounds full of sorrow which made my fingers weak.

I released her instantly.

"Thanks", she said but she didn’t even bother to look at me.

"Chloe", I tried to call her out but she didn’t turn toward me even for once but only said, "I hope we never cross our path ever again."

"Chloe, listen to me!!" I extended my hand toward her but it was slapped by the guy Eric.

"Didn’t you hear? She said she doesn’t want to cross paths with you. So fuck off from here unless you want her to shout at you", he glared and walked away holding her shoulder as if he is the guy she feels secure with.

I left behind again.

This is the second time I saw her walk away from me.

I don’t know what happened to her after that day but I got to hear she left the school. I felt bad. I thought I would move on from her in no time but it was all my imagination. Today seeing her all of sudden made my desires grow. I hoped as if I still had the chance to pursue her but...

I can feel someone kept telling me to keep on monopolizing her.

Someone kept on telling me she is yours which I wasn’t even able to ignore.

"Can I have her?"

"Can I really have her?"

I asked myself the same but a call interrupted my thinking.

I let out my phone from my back pocket and saw Aaron’s call.

"Yes", I replied.

"I should say this as you are the one who called me first", he sounds more angry then before.

"Oh sorry I ha-

I stopped.

"What? Finish your sentence", he said but I couldn’t.

I have no idea what I’m doing. Did I just stop? Did I just stop telling him about Ayla? When was all I planned just for this? James, you are losing it again. Yes you are losing it. First you forgot about your motive when Chloe came to your life and you are doing this again.

"Oh sorry I actually dialed your no. In an accident so I cut the call when I realise", I lied.

"Oh it’s ok, by the way grandfather told you to come home. He said he has something to talk about with you", he said.

"Ok I will be home soon", I said and hung up on him but my eyes were still looking for Chloe in the crowd area as if I would be able to meet her if I try to chase her in this crowd.

Still I didn’t but walked away from the place.

At night

"You are late", Aaron said as soon as I entered the living room.

"I know", I don’t even have the strength to stand properly while he only cares about why I’m late.

"Didn’t I told you grandfather wants to talk to you? Why did you come late?" he said.

"Yeah I know you called."

"Yeah I know you told me to come home fast as he wants to talk with me."

"And I know you hate me just that is why you are acting all mighty right now but you know what? I am human too and I have work too."

"I can be late for various reasons and I don’t need to clarify each time so please stop shouting at me because my mind is in a mess already which makes me want to smash everything I see in my way. So please don’t!!" I burst but when I stopped staying I felt an eternal silence kept on growing around us.

This is the first time I shouted at him.

This is the first time he has been silent even when I said many things without thinking twice.

"I-

I tried to speak but he walked away without even saying anything.

"What the hell am I doing letting out my anger on him?"

I never did something so irresponsible like that ever then why did I did this today? Is it because I got to see Chloe? Is it because I was already annoyed seeing the guy Eric with her? Or did I start blaming Aaron for my miserable life?

No no it can’t be.

He is innocent.

I can’t blame him even while I’m unconscious or I won’t be able to solve this broken relationship between us.

I could never.

I was thinking when I saw a elderly shadow coming from behind.

I turned and said, "I heard you want to have some talk with me?"

I knew it was the chairman’s shadow.

"Yeah lets go to my study", he said while I again followed him like the very first day but this time as soon as we entered the room I noticed there was someone who was guarding the outside.

"Why are you so cautious today?" I asked.

"Didn’t you notice last time Aaron was standing outside?"

"But isn’t it a soundproof room?" I asked.

"Yes it is but still when it comes to this matter I couldn’t just stay silent and believe every technology when it can be flipped the other way around." he said.

I sat in the front chair and waited for him to speak.

"I heard you have something which can make Aaron go against that girl?" he said, making me widen my eyes.

"How do you-

"Do you think I will trust you so freaking easily?"

"What if you turn your back on me and tell everything to him? I can’t trust you no matter what. I may agree with this deal but I can’t trust seeing how your mother made my daughter’s life miserable."

His words pierce my skin like a sharp throne.

"How did you know it was my mother?"

"How can you say it was her fault?"

"How could you just blame her all the time when you don’t have any proof?" I asked while my eyes kept looking at the floor. My eyes become teary every time I hear hate toward me and my mother.

"How could I blame her?"

"You want to know why I blame her?" he said and opened the drawer.

"Let me show you", he said and threw a few letters in front of me.

"Read them and say why I hate you and your mother", he said while I picked the letters and gathered them. I don’t know who’s letter is this or what is written in her but I already can feel the chills on my spine.

Father,

I don’t know how I should express my feelings to you when I know even though I write a long letter I won’t be able to send this to you. Still I want to write this and tell you that my decision was wrong from the start. I should have stopped you when you arranged the marriage with Morris whom I loved for years. I know how you used to call me crazy when I started narrating my feelings for him stating as my first love.

But my mistake was marrying him knowing he doesn’t love me. I thought if I marry him then he will eventually start to love me but it never happened dad. It was all my dream to start a family with me.

I thought if I have a baby with him he will start loving me as his son’s mother but it was too all in my dream. As soon as Aaron was born he bought a child who was the same as Aaron letting me know that he was always with her from the start while my marriage was to only make sure the head of the King family won’t disappoint.

He left me and my baby just to bring the other child home. I can’t say if I should be happy because he at least brought me to the hospital and let me have a smooth delivery or I would be disappointed because he never once saw my child’s face until we came home after a week.

What did I even do to be treated like this?

Why am I suffering just to be with my first love?

Why?

There are still many letters left but as soon as I finished with the first letter I was already crying. Just how much pain she has gone through because of me and my mother. I couldn’t even describe if it was us who lived in difficulties or is it her who lived everyday holding all of this burden until she died?

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