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A Step Closer to Love CXCVII
Aurora tried to steady herself as she walked to the car. She hated the way Kieran had belittled her. l in front of Arabella again. She bit the inside of her mouth in annoyance as she walked away.She got to the car and pushed herself into the front passenger seat. "You are you here alone?" Carlos's gruff voice came out across to her as she sat down.She felt her heartache at the fact that she was unable to finish the task to the door end. She crossed her hand across her chest and turned to him giving him a sarcastic smile. He could see she was alone so why was he trying to rub salt in her injury?"Of course genius, I am here alone" he snorted to him."Why?" he asked tapping lightly on the steering wheel. "Did you have a change of heart? Is your heart too fragile to kidnap someone?" he joked and she was not happy about it and made sure to show her displeasure."My heart isn't too fragile, Kieran stopped me," she said through gritted teeth."Then how did they manage to stop Miss Perfect
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"Tomorrow?" Chole asked shocked. "Yeah call her up and ask her that we meet tomorrow" "Okay I can do that, I will call her and let you know where we will meet" "You are coming as well?" Aurora asked. "Do you not want me to come?" Chole asked catching up fast."Well, I think it would be awkward for you to be there as well. Just set up a meeting for us and send me the time and venue, after I have properly apologized to her I would set a meeting with the entire office and apologize to them as well" Aurora said."You would help me set the meeting since you are the only one in the office I can seem to get across to" she added. She had to make the girl feel special to get the deed done fast."Okay then I would let her know you want to see her" Chole said."Don't do that," "I should not?" Chole was confused."Yeah" "Why?" "Do you think she would agree to meet me? I have been trying to get to her but she is ignoring my calls meaning she would not meet up with me. Just act like it's a f
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"You could have told her you want to spend the weekend with your boyfriend" Kieran grumbled as Arabella put on her lip balm."I spend all week with you I have to have time to be with friends" Arabella responded looking at him from the mirror she sat in front of."Don't you want to spend more time with me? So I am the only one who feels that way?" he mumbled to himself. She spun on the chair so she could face him. "I want to spend my whole time with you but that's impossible, I would meet her for a few hours and I would be back home" Kieran knew that she had to have her own life and he was not one to get clingy but with her everything was different."I thought we would get to go on the date we couldn't go on yesterday," he said and she shook her head."I thought so too but Chole has never asked me to hang out before so I just thought of seeing her and then coming back home" Arabella explained "Would you be home early?" Kieran asked. He had no choice but to accept because it was obvi
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Arabella entered the restaurant and sat by the table. The waitress came to meet her to get her order but she informed her that she was waiting for someone and would order when the person arrived.Arabella sat for a good thirty minutes before she put a call through to Chole. She was not picking up her call and Arabella hoped all was well. She was about to stand up when Aurora sat down opposite her."No need to call Chole I am here" she said with a sinister smile."Why are you here?" Arabella asked confused. What relationship did Chole and Aurora have for her to be bold enough to make a statement like that? "Because Chole would not be coming" "What?" Arabella asked confused. She looked around for any clues."It's a wonder what Kieran sees in you, you are so daft" Aurora let out in a taunting voice and then a sinister laugh."I asked Chole to set up this meeting and like a fool she believed that I wanted to apologize to you. Why should I be the one to apologize to you?" she asked leani
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Arabella felt her head throbbing, she tried to open her eyes but they felt heavy. She touched around her and the surface felt cold piercing through her clothes. She forced her eyes open and looked around. She struggled to sit upright and looked around her. The room she was in was empty with only an iron bed frame some meters away from her. She held her wrist as she winced in pain. Her mind began to wander as she tried to focus on why she was there. The last thing she could recollect was that she had an unexpected meeting with Aurora and she had been speaking gibberish. Her eyes landed on her feet which were tied together with a wire rope. She tried to pry through it with her hands but she could not. She tried to stand on her feet but it seemed like nothing was working. She heard the metal door a few meters in front of the bed squeak open. Aurora entered and stood with her hands across her chest. The three men from the restaurant stood behind her. "You are finally awake?" Aurora sa
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Kieran glanced at the clock for the nth time in thirty minutes. It had been four hours since Arabella left the house. He was worried because she was not responding to all his texts, even though she was reading them. He decided to call her. He had been trying to respect her privacy so he would not seem to be clingy to her. He wanted her to be comfortable but was getting worried already since she knew not a single place in the city. "She is with Chole, Chole is almost like an indigene" Kieran whispered to himself. He had been trying to hold himself back. He tapped his phone furiously and slammed the phone to his ears.The line went through but no one picked. He furrowed his eyebrows together and called her back. This time the call did not connect and her phone was now switched off."She might be out of battery" Kieran whispered to himself. He was trying to not make a scene out of the situation but for some very strange reason, he was not comfortable at all."I am not being clingy, I w
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Kieran felt his heart sink to the ground, judging from her tone it was obvious that she had something to do with the disappearance of Arabella. There was no way that she would just go missing in action for such a long time. Kieran squared his jaw as he tried to force words out of his mouth. “Where is she?” he asked. She let out a disgruntled sound from her lips and pursed her lips together. “No pleasantries? I see you want to get straight into business?” she asked before letting out a dry laugh."Where is she?" Kieran let out in a scream."Oh my, that scared me. You should be nicer if you want to get me to talk" she said teasing him. She liked that he had no choice but to speak to her now. She had to get the most out of it, she was going to make him grovel and beg just like she had been doing in the past. He might love Arabella but she had only loved him all her life. He was her first love and she wanted it to remain that way. She always had fantasies of her marrying her first lov
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Kieran turned around to see his father standing there, judging from his facial expression it seemed like he had an idea of what was going on."It seems like Aurora had kidnapped Arabella" Kieran did not hesitate at the moment he knew he had to get all the help he could get. Aurora sounded crazy on the phone, it was definitely not her usual tone, she sounded like she had suddenly been possessed by a strange spirit. "What?" Ethan asked taking a step back. "Arabella had been kidnapped by Aurora?" Ethan asked his eyes darting all over the place. "Yes," Kieran said with a nod. "Are you sure? It can't be, aurora has always been a lovely soul, she would not hurt a fly" Ethan rambled. He had known Aurora for quite a while now and she had always been a delight to be around. She didn't seem like someone who would do anything of that magnitude. "I just got off the call with her. It is certain that she is with Arabella, she had tricked Arabella into going out with her by using a coworker an
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"I am so happy for you," Ava said as she stood with Kieran and Arabella; they had just got married, and it was truly a joyous day. Kieran had been so quick with the preparations that it took them barely two months to put everything together. "I just couldn't believe that my little one had found love," she added, tears welling in here again."Mom, you need to stop crying; seeing you cry makes me cry as well," Arabella said, blinking back the tears. Her make-up artist had retouched her make-up multiple times because she knew she was getting annoying already, but she could not control the burst of emotions flowing from her body. "Mom," Seraphina said, coming from behind and putting her hand over the shoulders of her mother. "It is a happy day; why do you keep crying? Someone, I mistake you to be mourning." "I am just thinking of how proud your father would have been to witness today.""I am sure he is watching over us from above," Arabella said, holding her mom's hand tightly."Mom, let
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1 YEAR LATER Arabella was meeting Kieran after work; she had moved out because she was not comfortable with being there while dating him and had found herself a new job where she seemed to function much better. She was even on her way to write a book of her own. Kieran, who started a book publishing house solely for the money, now began to learn about this thing so he could help her out with the publication.She was glad that she had given in and tried to date him, or else she would never understand what this kind of relationship meant. Kieran was so attentive and made her feel like his entire world revolved around her. She learnt to drive and even bought her car.Sometimes she believed that he was going to propose to her because he would bring up discussions that centered around their future home, but then after that, it would be like they were back to base one. She liked base one, but she hated living all by herself. She wanted to move back in with him, and she wanted to begin havi
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"A trip?" Arabella asked, taking up the blanket and covering herself. "Yes, a couple's trip," he said, dropping the phone back on the table and walking to her. "What about work? Aren't you going to work again?" she asked. "Are you afraid that you would live broke?" he asked in a teasing tone."Of course I am," Arabella said before tilting her head. "I am jobless now; at least one of us needs to work so we can live a happy life," she added."You know that I do not mind you still thinking with us," Kieran said. After the trial, Arabella decided to stop working there even though Aurora was no longer there. How could she work there after everything that happened? She would be able to face her co-workers if that were the case. "I am sure I will get an offer soon from one of those companies," she said, and he sat beside her. "And you know you do not need to work again; I can take care of you and as many children as you want to have," he said with a wink. "Children?" she said flustered
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Arabella rolled over, and she landed right into Kieran's hands. She looked at him like it was an offence for her to do so. She peered at him and then covered her eyes with her hand. She could not believe what she had done over the night. If her mom heard she was going to give her a long lecture and then have her head afterwards. She looked at him, and she was tempted to trace her finger across his face in frustration. "Sleep so much more," she was startled to hear him talk as his mouth moved without even opening his eyes. "How long have you been awake?" She muttered, feeling shy that he had caught her staring so much that she could drill a hole into his face. "A while now," he said, his eyes framing open like a princess that was cast under a spell but was now liberated all of a sudden. He pulled her closer as he wished they could somehow get closer and maybe even mesh together. "Should we go home? Everly must be worried searching for us," Arabella murmured into his chest. He opene
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"Somewhere, like where?" she asked shyly, dropping her head so their eyes would not meet. "You would see," he said, lifting her head gently. "But we have to make sure that the ride ends first," he said, looking around. He had thought that they were going to have a moment there, but seeing how things turned out, he could not wait to be out of there. Finally, the ride was over, and he drove out of the amusement park to a hotel. "You brought me to a hotel?" she asked in shock as they drove into the underground parking lot. "Why?" she asked now that her tone was in a hushed whisper. "I told you we should come somewhere, and you agreed," he said as he drove by the cars looking for a place to park. "That was because I thought you said that we should go someplace nice," she muttered, looking around like they were sneaking around. "Why are you looking around like we are committing a sin?" he asked, noticing how uncomfortable she got. "It is not that...""Am I being clueless? Am I jumpin
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Kieran paid the operator to let the ride go in a loop three times, and Arabella wondered why he did that."Why?" she whispered to him."To have some alone time," he replied with the same wink from earlier. She gulped down hard, wondering what he was thinking.As the ride got into the tunnel, Arabella held the hand of Kieran tightly with her eyes closed. She had no time to think of what he might have meant with the wink and statements because the ride was definitely scarier than she had expected it to be. She looked at him when she felt his firm hand hold her face and turn it to him. "Are you scared?" he asked, dropping a kiss on her lip. "Kieran," she said in a hushed whisper as she looked around. "There is no one here, and I have been waiting all day just to get that," he said before dropping his head for another kiss. She placed her hand over her mouth because he could kiss her and therefore kissed the back of her hand. He took her hand from her mouth and began to drop multiple k
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"Do you want to explain why you are here?" Kieran asked. Arabella had expected him to scream his lungs out, but he was wrong. Myabe's drive down has calmed him down. "It is a stupid reason; I don't want to tell you," Arabella murmured to herself. She had wanted to hear an apology so much that it felt like her self-worth depended on it. She turned her head to the side so she was looking out the window. "Look at me," Kieran said softly. "Look at me," he said again, this time turning her head with his hand gently. "I am so ashamed of myself; I don't know what I was thinking," Arabella said again. Seeing Kieran had somehow triggered something in her. It was like judging her actions without even saying anything. "Tell me, I want to know why you dressed up and left the house to come here when you should be resting.""Okay," she said as she heaved a sigh. "I wanted an apology so bad." "What?" "See, I knew you would judge me.""Ara, I am not judging you. I just want to understand what y
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"Why are you laughing?" Arabella was shocked. That was not the expression she was expecting from her. "Dearest Arabella, you must think the world revolves around you," she said, leaning in that she was seated at the edge of her seat. "Why do you think I would apologize to you? I did what I did, and I would do it again and again if need be.""You are not sorry for kidnapping and assaulting me even though you ended up here?" Arabella asked. "Of course, if I had the chance to, I would do it again. Can you imagine how hard I worked? I worked hard on Kieran, and you swooped in from nowhere and decided you wanted to take him from me. Oh, please, like you deserve him," Aurora said, leaning into the chair. "If you are here to ask me for an apology, I am afraid that you have to go back without one today and that you need not expect one from me," she said, looking at her nails like she had gotten a fresh set of nails. "Arabella, I think one of the problems you have is that you seem to overra
