Chapter 32 (I Love You)

“I will cook you some food love. You have to eat something.”

“No please. I am not hungry. Just hug me to sleep,” her weak voice reached my ears and I couldn’t deny them. I did not have that much strength in me.

I laid beside her and turned her body to make it face me. I slid my one hand under her waist and pulled her even closer to me until there was no space left between us. I hugged her feeling a lot of things; love, care, pain, hate.

“Gabriel?” she whispered.

“Yes love.”

“I Love You!”

There. She said those words to me. If she’d said to me before yesterday then I would’ve been the happiest and most probably the craziest person on the earth. I would declare a holiday in the entire city, I would take her in my arms and kiss her until we both run out of breathe, but today, it was different. I felt only pain.

“Zayla?”

She did not speak. She was already in her wonderland.

“I don’t want to love you anymore love.”

The next morning, I did not leave her side like yesterday. I woke u