59T H E AI put on some earring and fixed my hair. Since I had a wounded foot, Sebastian decided to have our date inside the villa while the others were having their dinner outside at the yard. He said he wanted to have me solo for tonight since he was busy the entire day and he felt bad for what happened to me.As for Benedict, I haven't seen much of him today. I don't know if he's hiding from me or he talked with Khaleel about what we discussed inside the clinic. By I was seriously disappointed at Benedict, most of the people asked and worried about me. But he never even talked to me and asked me if I was fine or how was my foot. God that man is despicable!I sigh as I look at my reflection. "Man up Thea. Tell Sebastian that you don't like him."A knock came by my door and I knew that it was already Sebastian. I headed straight to the door and decided to open it. But it was someone else."Hey." He smiled tightlipped."Khaleel." I welcomed his presence. "What brings your here? I tho
60T H E ATHREE YEARS AGO...When I resigned the club and left London, Sky had already been furiously mad because I was hard-headed. He didn't want me to leave because he doesn't trust the guy I chose but I'm so in love with Liv.I wanna be where he is. I wanna be with him all the time. I wanna see him when I wake up in the morning or before I fall asleep at night. I wanna lay with him, eat with him, cook for him, prepare his clothes before he starts his day at work. I wanna live with him in one house.College was really great so far. The feeling of being in school again, felt so nice. A mixture of thrilling and exciting were building inside. I was actually having fun and learning a lot in Scotland. Liv was the one who paid for everything, from the university fee, to my new clothes, new bags, shoes, books, pens, notebooks, and my own flat. Everything that I needed was paid by Liv and though it was difficult to adjust myself in this new surrounding, I did it for him because it would m
61T H E APRESENT..."Are you still mad?"My eyes travelled back to Liv while I was being dead silent for a couple of minutes. I try to process the question that he asked me but I was also unsure of my own answer. I take a couple more seconds to think.Am I still mad with all the things that he did to me?I don't know."Then I take that as a yes." He answers his own question and looked away from me.I sigh and looked away from him too."I don't know Liv." I admitted."I..." I trailed off.I breath and exhaled. "I don't know if I'm still mad at you. I don't even know if I can even forget those things. I don't know if... I don't know if I can even forget our past Liv. You're like a ghost."I turn my head back to him and he was already looking at me. "A ghost that follows me everywhere I go. You're always haunting me. In my dreams. In my thoughts. At work. Even after being away from you, you haunt me.""Is it bad that I do?" He asks. "Do you feel mad when you remember me? Do I still dis
62T H E ATHREE YEARS AGO...Liv cancelled his business trip to Dubai because he wanted to check on me and by check on me it meant that every hour of the day. He messages me every hour to ask if where I was. He would call just to make sure I was in class and I wasn't going anywhere but school and school alone. He'd call every freaking hour to the extent that my professors would get mad at me. If college had detention I'd be always present.Liv has now been aware that a lot of guys are trying to pursue me in my university and even though I never talk to him about it, he knew. He said it's a man's instinct when other men has eyes set on their woman. Liv and I would fight most nights due to men who keep ringing up my phone. Sometimes he would answer it and sometimes he would turn off my phone when I'm at home with him around.He wasn't acting as if he was my boyfriend, but instead he was acting as if he was my father. I didn't talk to Liv days after that incident and as always he did so
63T H E AThree years ago...My tears blurs my eyes because all those nights when he was also physically hurting me flashed back to me as Rachelle storytells me everything that Liv did to her. I pitied her for what she has been through while she married him. She stayed with Liv as long as she could because it was for the love of her sons and just be with them and that it wasn't because she was still in love with her husband. She said she loved Liv but love faded the moment when he continuously began hitting her and hurting her physically.Rachelle exhales as she wipes the escaping year coming from her eyes. "He was the nicest man I know but the most evil at the same time."Her lips trembles. "He's a very jealous man. He asked me to stop from work because he kept on insisting that my colleagues were hitting on me but they weren't. He only wants me to stay at home and if I go out of the house to do shopping I have two bodyguards with me."She sighs. "He scares me the most when he's ma
64T H E AI breathe out and opened my eyes.I'm back to the present time.I see Liv standing right next to me and he stares at me sorrily with rueful eyes. But I don't regret leaving him. I didn't regret leaving him and ending what I had with him. I was free from being controlled on what to do and being told what I shouldn't do.I was free from pain.I looked away from him and exhaled heavily. I can still recall how painful it was for me to go through those timea when I was being with him and to leave him alone. But I knew I just have to do it for my own good even though I loved him very dearly."Vi..." His voice weakens. "I have been trying to change and to control myself ever since you left. I am trying. I swear.""Then I'm happy for that." I answer him.He shakes his head. "I'm not. I'm not happy about losing you. I have never felt like the other half of my life is missing."I walk closer to him and held his cheek. "Liv, it's been years and we've all moved on."There was a long pa
65SEBASTIANTHE NIGHT BEFORE...I have never been disappointed.I'm not mad at Thea, but I'm mad at myself for not being enough. I wonder what was wrong with what I did. I thought if I kept pursuing her, she would probably feel the same way as I do. I thought if I kept on showering her with gifts and taking her to places, she would like it.But why?Why doesn't she see that all the things that I am doing for her is just showing my appreciation?Why doesn't she fall in love with me?Why?I groan as I pulled myself up from my bed. I glance at my wall clock, it was already four in the morning but I still couldn't sleep. I wanted to talk to her but I don't want to annoy her too much.I sigh."I think I should talk to her." I mumbled to myself.I pulled myself up from my bed and grabbed a shirt. I put it on me and walked towards my door. I know it's stupid to talk to her this late but then I have this urging feeling where I really wanna talk to her. I don't know what I will say, but I'm s
66THEAWhen I got back up to my room after that talk with Khaleel by the shore, I felt more and more confused on what really happened that night. I had so many questions in my head that were unanswered that only Benedict or Sebastian can answer.I groan.I exhale heavily and closed the door behind me. My eyes scanned around the room then all of a sudden, I saw a letter on the floor. My brows creasing as I knelt down to pick it up. My name was written in cursive in front of the envelope and as I stand back up, I opened the letter which was written in cursive too. It was just beautifully written in cursive with a black inked sign pen.Miss Thibault,As soon as you read this, I have already left. But I have never showed you my appreciation for coming into my life and how you turned it into a roller coaster Miss Thibault. You made me do things that I didn't wanna do before. You made me feel feelings that I didn't know I was capable of. You showed me how to be alive again. Thank you. When