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
67THEABENEDICT: I can't pick you up.He can't pick me up?Worried filled me. What does that mean?Our date is cancelled?For what reason?I felt disappointed.I was expecting so much for this but he just let me down. I felt terribly sad after reading his message and felt a little mad at him for the short notice of cancelling our date. I was really looking forward for everything tonight and I was really freaking excited for it too but then he couldn't keep his promise to me.I sigh.My phone beeps again.BENEDICT: That doesn't mean our date is cancelled :) My driver will be the one to pick you up.A small smile creeps on my face and felt like thorns were pulled out from my chest. I can breathe again.ME: I thought you cancelled our date on the last minute.BENEDICT: I can't be that mean. He will take you somewhere. Don't worry, he knows what's he gonna do. I will see you in a few minutes.I smiled.BENEDICT: I can't wait.A bigger smile creeps on my face.I.Squealed.Suddenly, someo
68THEAWhen the car stopped, we reached to a private building which was a house. It wasn't just an ordinary house, but a very huge one instead. It was eerily quiet and my eyes were glued on the all-glass mansion.Wow. I said breathlessly as soon as Ben opened the passenger seat's door and helped me out."Your new home?" I asked him.He nods subtly. "I bought it as soon as it was for sale."A house.A new house.I gasped inwardly. "It means you're gonna be living here in Seattle for a long time?"Ben just stared at me for 5 solid seconds and I dont know what that look on his eyes means but I already know the answer to my question."I bought it in case I need to come here again in Seattle." He answers.I exhaled with relief."I'm still gonna be living in London. But I'm a busier man now." He adds.The skin on my forehead folds. "What does that mean?"He smiles subtly and squeezes my hand."That 9-hour flight made you think of too much." Ben kisses my knuckles.I melt."Because you're s