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"I can't believe you are doing this just to meet Michelle Michigan," Chole said going in with the pain relief spray. "How does that feel?" Aaron asked when Chole stopped spraying. "Fine," Arabella says absentmindedly. She looks up at the entire office and how they were trying to come to her aid. It felt surreal to her that this amount of people were interested in how well she does. "Ow," she screamed and looked down to see Mia pressing down a portion of her. "Fine?" she asked with a scoff. "We need to take her to the hospital asap" she added. Arabella looked up again and her eyes jammed Kieran's 'I told you so' danced in them as he stared at her. If she went to the hospital then she would miss the opportunity of being the one to host her. She had done a lot of work."No no no," she said forcing herself to stand up. She could barely stand for a few seconds before she fell back to the chair. "ow," she said groaning in intense pain. "Aaron please do carry her immediately," Ryder s
Last Updated : 2023-08-18A Step Closer to Love LXII
The little things we do for one another do matter. Arabella felt her heart flutter since two men came to her aid. She felt bad for not meeting Michelle Michigan but she felt bad to bring it up seeing that both men missed their meeting to be here for her. "Ryder" she whispered tugging at his hand. She had been taken into the hospital and then given emergency treatment for relief. The doctors said she should stay back so they can perform an x-ray to ensure that she gets the right can of treatment. "Yes," he said turning his gaze down to her as she sprawled across the bed. "Can I ask for a favor?" she asked. Was she eligible to be asked such questions? "A favor?" Ryder weighing his options. He barely knew her and her tendencies so how could he accept to grant her request when he wasn't sure what it was she wanted to ask? "Yes don't worry I won't ask for anything crazy""I don't know if I am capable of doing it for you," Ryder said. "But ask I would see if I can do something about it
Last Updated : 2023-08-19A Step Closer to Love LXIII
"Wait no don't call her," Arabella said before Kieran could dial the number. "We shouldn't call her?" Ryder asked confused. "We have to get back to work now and you can't stay alone. The doctor gave you some pain killers and they can make you drowsy so you need someone here with you" "Yeah I know that but can one of you stay instead?" she asked pouting. "Why?" Kieran asked. He was least interested but he had to know why she did not want his mom around. Was it perhaps related to what went on in the morning? "Everly and my mom are very close. If she is aware that I hurt myself in less than two weeks of being here then my mom would be all over my case and Everly would be sad. I think I would be a bad child to make both moms worry about me" she explained. Upon hearing her conclusion both men saw sense in what she said but how would they leave their work for the entire day? "Please," she said pulling the cutest face she could muster. She could not stand a great scolding now. She had
Last Updated : 2023-10-02A Step Closer to Love LXIV
"Must something be up for me to call?" Arabella asked. "Yes" "What?" "Don't take it the wrong way but you don't call or pick calls whenever you work. I remember your part-time job when you were in college. Mom thought something was wrong when you did not pick up""And she left me fifty-seven missed calls," Arabella said. Talking about those memories made her miss home all the more. She hated that she was away from home. If she was home she would have her two legs to herself. "I am not at work anyway" "I knew it, there is no way you could be at work and call me," Seraphina said. "Oh yay you know me too well," Arabella said in a mocking voice. "Are you already playing hooky? You've barely spent a month there" Seraphina was kind of proud of her younger sister who had always been a stickler for rules. She always followed them to the latter. To hear that she skipped work was kind of a thing of joy to her. "Well, I'm at the hospital," Arabella said and the other end of the line we
Last Updated : 2023-10-02A Step Closer to Love LXV
"Okay Bye, I will call you later," Arabella said over the phone as Kieran walked in. She did not want Kieran to have to listen in to her conversation with her sister something about it did not sit well with her. He walked to the seat in the private room and dropped his keys to the table. She had had a long conversation about everything and anything with her sister and she had advised her to date someone as soon as she could. "Has the doctor come?" Kieran asked as he watched her drop the phone from her ears. "Not yet" she said as she tried to watch him. "You know you don't need to stay with me? I am a big girl and I can take care of myself""Yeah you can and with that foot too," he said in a mocking tone. "I won't be in this situation if not for someone" she murmured as she picked up her phone and pretended to tap away on it. "I am sorry" She lifted her head to him. She did not expect him to apologize. It was not entirely his fault she was in that situation. She has foolishly don
Last Updated : 2023-10-23A Step Closer to Love LXVI
"It is a very lucrative business" "Money?" "Yes money" She was shocked. Of all the people she knew who were in the same industry as her most of them were there because of passion this was the first of its kind. "So you are money-driven?" she asked him. "Isn't everyone money-driven?" "I am doing this because of my passion fot hard copy books and how much I want others to read such masterpieces by the authors" she answered. "Well if that was the reason then you won't collect any salary, you won't have to leave Japan to come all the way here for this job," he tells her. She opens her mouth but her head goes blank. She tried to think deep of anything she could say to counter what he had just said. She was not money-driven. She really did want people around to read those stories and have great dreams like her. "See that, you can't counter that" "The only reason we collect a salary is to survive" "So we need money to survive but we refuse to accept that money drives us? Humans ar
Last Updated : 2023-10-23A Step Closer to Love LXVII
The doctor walked in with a smile on his face and a folder in hand. "How do you feel?" he asked looking at her. He looked so handsome that she could not help but be drawn to his beauty. She stared at him. He snapped his fingers in her face and her eyes jumped to life and blushed uncontrollably before she tried her best to gather herself together. "I asked how you feel" "My leg hurts so badly" she comments trying to mask her expression of embarrassment. "I have prescribed some injections of painkillers and you will be given them soon. Just get someone who can get you something tangible to eat" "Someone is already going that" she replied. "Okay good then, as soon as you eat ring the bell at the bedside to alert the nurses who will help you" "Thank you, doctor, what are the results of the test?" "Oh yes, you have a little sprain on your left ankle so even if you get discharged later tonight be careful using the legs. I will write a note for you to have crutches assigned to you" he
Last Updated : 2023-11-09A Step Closer to Love LXVII
"You would have to use crutches for the main time?" Kieran asked stunned. She said it so casually it actually shocked him. Why would she say it like it is something someone should be used to? "Yes but maybe a week or two" "Why do you say it so casually?" he asked back unable to hide his shock. "Because it is not the first time. I have used it once before" "Ohh" he exclaimed. He was not comfortable with her familiarity with the crutches but what could he say? She explained to him that the doctor asked her to have a meal and then asked the nurses to give her injections and then when the effect wore off she could go home. He had asked countless times if it was okay for her to just go home like that and she had assured him. His face gave him away that he was not convinced but he had no choice but to accept because she insisted. "What do I tell your mom?" she asked sleepily. The injection given to her was to make her dizzy and then fall asleep after a while. She was concerned about
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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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Arabella could feel Kieran's excitement for the date, and she wondered why they got so lucky. They went on every ride in the park like they had been waiting to do this. Arabella was more proud of the fact that a handsome hunk named Kieran was with her. In every line, they heard murmurs of people talking about how handsome he was. She was not letting any of that bother her because she could disagree with them; he was a beauty to behold. She did not let the nasty comments, such as those criticising his choice, get to her. He glued to her like gum on the sole of a shoe, and it must have infuriated the crowd the more because of the kinds of dirty glances she received from them. Kieran was always pushing back her hair and staring at her while holding her hand tightly and dropping random kisses on her forehead. She was shy, but she liked how he marked his terror so openly. She was on a date, and she was going to try her best not to be affected by any of that. "Should we go there?" Kieran
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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
