EmilyI wasn't expecting to witness what I just found out. When I opened my eyes to welcome a new morning, I found Kane staring at me. He abruptly drifted away as if he wasn't expecting me to wake up and find him doing that. It has me smile out of nowhere but I wonder why he's suddenly doing this. Even if he did that, why is so nervous about his actions?I can't understand this guy. Sometimes he tries to control me in every possible way and show his damn right on me. And sometimes he's too nervous to show his actual actions. "What's the time?" I ask, stretching my arms as he gets onto his feet. "It's ten", he says, walking towards the closet."I slept too much", I mutter. "But you're not off to work yet. Is it Sunday?""No. But I'm not going to the office today", he says. "Why?"I sit up and watch him putting his clothes on. "Because we're going somewhere else. Get ready""Where?" I exclaim. "Are you supposed to ask a question?" He shoots me a glare. I don't wanna face his anger e
EmilyI don't know why I'm feeling so different since this morning, especially when I look at Kane and his actions. As much as I feel a kind of happiness with his tender and gentle gestures toward me, I feel a kind of anxiety as if I'm gonna be hollow again.We're about to leave right now for Texas City. I can't believe I'm going back to my city after three long years. It has so many bittersweet memories. Some I wanted to forget and some I have been cherishing ever since. Kane was too late to come back last night which is why I couldn't wish him. It's his 32nd birthday. I remember his first birthday with me. I did so many things to celebrate it. And I had thought I'll be making it more special in the upcoming years. It didn't happen. But I hope my little gift will be able to make it special for him. I take out the small jar of notes I wrote every month for him. Throughout the last four years, I didn't forget what I had planned for him. I had bought this jar after his 28th birthday a
KaneI'm too stunned to do anything or even look at Emily. She must be too devastated, I know that and there's no way I can change whatever has happened. "Happy Birthday, husband," Monica says on the mic as I reach there, glaring at her. Among all the applause, I find her playfully narrowing her eyebrows. "What the hell is that?" I shrug. "Didn't I tell you not to—""Relax," she holds my arm and turns me to the crowd with a big smile when I don't feel like smiling at all. "I can understand you are being an emotional fool, Kane. But you know what you have done. You can't change it"I close my eyes shut. "But I told you not to do so. I was about to part ways with her. Why did you still—," I blurt out and halt, realising she's not gonna listen to me anyway. I brought this myself and I have to bear it. "You have done whatever you wanted to. Now keep quiet and don't do any more nonsense tonight. Got it?" I sneer at Monica.As I finally gather the courage to look in Emily's direction,
A month agoKane"What do you want me to do?" Monica asked on the call as I smirked."You know Emily could never stand you. I just want to watch her getting hurt when she would know I got over her and married you," I said."You— you wanna marry me?" She exclaimed."No!" I seethed. "I don't give a fuck to marriage and love. And don't take me seriously on that. You'll act like my wife in front of Emily. That's it. After a month, when I toss her away, I'll watch her suffer the pain of heartbreak. Am I clear?" I shrugged."Why would she trust that?""A fake photo shoot doesn't take much time," I cracked up. "Got it," Monica said. "Will execute this straight after thirty days"——————I close my eyes shut. Who knew I'll be the one to suffer the most? Who knew it'll hurt to watch her getting hurt? Who knew my own strategies would backfire? "Remembered?" She shrugs. My blood started to blotch as I grab her arms tightly. "Yes. I do remember. But I had changed my mind. I told you I don't w
EmilyWhen I opened my eyes I didn't expect to be in that place. I roll my eyes nervously around the room. For as long as I can remember I was near the Cascade last night. It was raining heavily. My heart was heavy. I don't remember how long I cried but gradually my brain started functioning. I recall every single thing from last night.I remember how all those disgust-filled eyes landed on me, how my entire existence felt nasty and sinful, and how I have literally spent thirty days with a married man. I cover my face with both hands and breathe heavily. I can't take this anymore. I just can't. Now, it doesn't hurt because the man I love the most is not mine. It hurts because the only thing I had as my own isn't there anymore. My dignity is tainted. And it hurts more than anything. Whatever happened to me throughout my life, I never felt like this before. But today, I have stooped so low in my own eyes. Gathering the sheets tightly against my chest, I close my eyes and strive to pr
KaneEthan said Emily asked him to hire a cab. She didn't tell him where she would exactly go. I believe she'll go back to Austin. After all, she has her dream job there, her family in her agency. But I'm not sure if she's gonna go back to David's company after this mess. If she goes there, I believe she'll know what I confessed at that party. She'll know Monica isn't my wife. I hope it'll give her some relief. Ethan insisted that I should meet her when she was leaving but I didn't go. I didn't think I'd be able to control myself. What if my mind changes and the bastard in me wakes up again and it tries to force her to stay back again. "She has left, Kane," Ethan says as I take a long stroke of smoke from the cigarette. I try to smile painfully, rubbing my eyes repeatedly. "Are you okay?" Ethan grabs my shoulder."I'm relieved," I tell him with a painful smile. "I'm proud of you, Young Master," Ethan says with a big smile of pride.*It's already been a week since Emily left for
KaneMore than seventy days since Emily left. Seventy days since I have realised there's no way I can survive without her. Seventy days since I realised I love her more than I used to do years back. Seventy days since my life feels meaningless, full of emptiness. And today after those painful seventy days, I'm stepping out to bring her back again. But a part of me still emerged with fear.What if she refuses to come back to me.What if she has fixed her life again and my presence ruins it all for her. I have been selfish all my life, especially when it was about her. I have been greedy for her love, her existence in my life, her tender body in my arms. That greed increases each passing day. I keep battling with my thoughts while driving through a narrow parkway in between green fields, away from the busy city, the only place where I can find her or at least her exact location.Her parents' home. Emily can abandon everything but she can never abandon her mom. And I believe Auntie
I brace myself before reading it. "As you sow, so you reap. That's what dad used to say. But it has never been the same in my life. I got the worst in return for a single NO. I can't believe I'm a woman of this era where we're still not allowed to say NO to anything. We don't have a right to make decisions and any random person thinks that they can make decisions in our lives as if we're obliged to do whatever they want.I realised this fact in the worst way. I never thought turning down a silly offer would bring a nightmare to my life. Damien Porter is a demon with the skin of a human. That's what I found out the day when I was taken by his men and brought to him in darkness. I still remember that horrible day when I was surrounded by darkness in that empty room. I kept screaming and crying to break the shackles when he came in front of me. I still remember his creepy face when he walked toward me with his horrible smirk. I knew it was not going to end well. But I wasn't the kind