Harry POV
The ambulance stopped in front of the A&E and I got out of the ambulance following the paramedics taking Devin inside.
He looks pale and he had a couple of seizures. The paramedics managed to get him comfortable and sable until we got to the hospital.
Once inside they rushed Devin into the observation area and I went in with him. My head is spinning and it feels like I can’t keep my head above water.
The doctors arrive immediately and they ask me to leave so they can take care of Devin. I nod my head and I go out.
I sit on those uncomfortable chairs and bend over resting my elbows on my knees while I take a deep breath. My hands pass through my hair.
I put my
Alice POVHarry’s phone has been ringing for hours and I don’t want to answer it. I put it in silence at the dining room table. I will have to give him his phone eventually. I don’t know what to think. Karen made me believe he was a bad guy and that she regretted loving him. But then. He looked so sincere when he was talking to me. And his arms around me made me feel so safe. I walk to the table and I see that Karen is calling him. Why would she be calling Harry? She was supposed to hate him. What is going on?I pick up the phone and I answer it“Hello” - I say with a lower riskier voiceI know I’m not t
Harry POVI need to go home and change. I have been in these clothes for almost a day and I need a shower. Devin is still not talking to me. He believes that I am doing this to get rid of him. Why would I do that? I worry about him so much. He is my best mate and I can’t even imagine what I would’ve done without him all these years. He was there for me when I needed him. Even being high as a kite he was there. He helped me lift my head again and move on. He was the one cheering me up when I was crying and depressed. I had been through a double betrayal and he was there for me. I could never do anything to harm him. I walk into the room and he is watching tv.“I’m going home and change and then I’m going to try and find Alice” - I say
Three years later Alice POV“Close your eyes” - Dave says and I do as he tells me. He places both his hands softly on top of my eyes and I put my hands on top of his. “What is going on?” - I ask him.“You will see in a minute” - he tells meWe walk and I feel a breast of fresh air hit my face. I feel a chill down my spine. We stop waking after a little bit and he takes his hands off of my eyes but I keep my eyes closed as he instructed me earlier.“Are you ready?” - Dave asks and I nod my head. I’m with a massive smile on my face. I don’t know exactly what
Harry POV“Nice to meet you” - I reply shaking her hand. I feel a jolt of electricity down my body. How is it possible that after all this time she still has this effect on me?“Excuse me” - Alice says and walks out of the room.“How do you know her?” - I ask as Rita comes back to the bed.“We went to the same university. She was friends with a couple of my friends” - Rita says and I nod my head“Why?” - she asks and I shake my head - “just curiosity, you’ve never talked about her” - I let out“We weren’t really friends. She was friends with my friends” - she says before she gets hit by an
Alice POVOnce I see the baby in Rita’s arms and Harry kissing her and looking at the baby with adoration I felt as if I could die. He’s got the life I’ve dreamed for me. He’s got the lovely wife and the baby. And me? Yes, I have love and a wonderful marriage but...I thought I had forgotten about Harry. I thought I was over him. But who am I kidding? Harry is the love of my life and although I do love Dave he will never be Harry. Once I finish with Rita I leave the room asking for another midwife to cover for me. I feel as if my heart was breaking again reminding me why I left in the first place. Harry never came looking for me. He never cared. Why would he? He was in a relationship with Karen. I was just means to an end. Karen was right about him all along and I was a
Harry POVIt’s been one year since Henry was born and I couldn’t be happier. He is giggling and going all the time. Rita decided to stop working to be with him at home. I agreed with her decision. We never needed her to work as money was never a problem for either of us. Devin is the Henry’s godfather. And he keeps drooling all over the kid constantly. Today he is babysitting Henry so that I can take Rita out on a date on the night before Henry’s first birthday. She deserves to be treated like a Queen. After all, she gave me my biggest treasure. “Are you ready?” - I asked walking into her dressing room. Rita is sitting at her vanity table finishing her make up. She
Alice POVDinner was completely terrible. It was awkward. Rita kept looking at me and Harry as if she knew something happened. I feel terrible. We are in the taxi going to my house when Pat breaks the silence.“So that’s your Harry” - she says“He’s not mine” - I say looking out of the window.“Even a blind person would be able to see your chemistry “ - Pat says and I look at her“What do you mean?” - I ask “He still loves you, and you love him, I don’t know who you’re trying to fool” - Pat says“He betrayed me
Harry POVI am kneeling in front of Alice. Ready to ask forgiveness for whatever I did that hurt her so much that made her disappear and believe in Karen instead of me. That bitch never admitted anything about what she did to me and Alice but I know she’s done something.I patt myself in the back for a job well done getting rid of her. Devin definitely has a brilliant mind. I focus on the task ahead. Get Alice to forgive me. I don’t know what I expect from this conversation. I just want her back in my life. However, she wants it. I just want her back. I love her too much to stay away. I’m not letting her disappear again. No way in hell. “Karen told me a lot of things about you” - Alice says and I hold her hands on mine.
Abbey POV “MUM, MUUUUUUUM” I scream from the top of my lungs, and I can hear her running up the stairs with dad following her. “What happened? Are you hurt?” she says, almost breathless, as she opens my bedroom door. Dad stops right behind her with his hand on his chest, trying to catch his breath. “You’re getting old, dad”, I say jokingly, and he gives me a stern look that breaks as soon as I offer him one of my biggest smiles. “What happened?” Dad asks, “Why were you screaming the house down?” he keeps asks as they both take a couple of steps into my room. “I got into Oxford University”, I say, and mum starts to cry immediately as dad walks to me with open arms, and I hug him tightly. “Oh baby, I am so proud of you”, dad says, kissing the top of my head. He is a lot taller than me; I am just a little bit taller than mum, a couple of inches, but that still makes dad tower over me. “Mum?” I let out, and she hug
Harry POV It’s been a couple of months since Alice chose that dick over me. Rita suggested we worked on our marriage because she was willing to let the past be in the past and forget about everything that happened between us if I could work on our marriage because of our children now that Karen and Alice are out of the way. We have been doing couple’s therapy, and I have to say that it is actually helping me heal from the fact that Alice chose Devin over me and is helping me to see that Rita is the best option for me. She wants the same things as me, has the same values, and wants our children to have a happy family. My relationship with my parents changed for the best since they helped Rita hide from Karen, keeping her and my son safe. We are having another boy, we haven’t decided on the name yet, but we are working on it. I want Harrison, but Rita doesn’t want another name starting with H. We have to sort it out. We sold the flat an
Devin POV “Devin, come here please”, Francisca says and I walk towards her from my improvised desk in the front room. She has the design for the house for me to approve, we go through everything and I ask her to change some small things, like the window features, and to keep the balcony exactly the same way it is right now, I have my morning coffee outside every day now and I actually enjoy it. I can understand why Alice used to do it. I have asked her to get someone to make the maze disappear as it is a difficult place for me, I used to love it when I bought it, and the first time I took Alice in there, we shared our first kiss, she got lost and when I found her she hugged me and kissed me, but then, it was in front of the maze that she chose him over me, she decided that he was more important than I was. I walk back to my desk and I hear a lot
Devin POV It’s been three days since the Gala and I am back at the cottage, I am having an architect to come and check everything out to do some remodelling of the house, I need a bigger and more comfortable work space and I definitely need it quieter. The staff in this house have no sense of keeping to themselves and leaving my life out of their business. Maybe after the meeting I’ll just go for a trail ride and try and clear my head. I haven’t been able to focus on work for the life of me. All I keep thinking is Alice, and how she might be back in his arms and I am here moping around. I shake my head and I walk back into the house and into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee when the doorbell rings, slowly I walk to the door sipping my coffee and I open it. The architect is waiting for me with a smile on her face, Francisca, she is Portuguese an
Harry POV As soon as Alice left Devin walks out of the room and I grab his arm tightly. He looks me in the eyes and I don’t recognise my best friend anymore, he looks like a stranger looking at me, he looks more confident and more independent. Not that that is a bad thing, it’s just different from the Devin I am used to. Devin always kept his head down after all his drug addiction, he has a man slut but he kept himself in the dark from everything else. “Leave her alone, she is mine”, I tell Devin and he shoves my hand away from his arm placing both his hands in his pockets again. “She will be the one to decide if she wants me to leave her alone, the day Alice tells me to go, ill go, but if she doesn’t I am sticking around until she tells me to give up”, Devin tells me and anger builds up in me. Devin approaches me and whispers in my ear “I know you let her fall on purpose”, Devin says and I take one step back looking him deep in his eyes, he
Alice POV The police wants to ask me some questions, obviously Harry doesn’t want to leave me alone but the police insists, they need to get our testimonies separately, they want to hear both sides of what happened and they want to see if the stories match, They say they’ve heard Devin already and they have given us a few minutes because of the traumatic side of things for me. Harry says he is not leaving my side and that they can ask us both questions at the same time, I know they are just doing their job but I have to say I like the idea of not being alone with anyone I don’t know right now. The police starts asking me questions as in, how did Karen take me upstairs to the roof terrace. I said she cornered me in the bathroom when I wasn’t expecting her and she said Devin and Harry were fighting up there all because of me. I look at Harry and once more his face is unfazed, as if nothing ever shocked him, he learned to hide his true emotions
Harry POV Alice leaves to walk into the bathroom and I see that Devin is getting ready to follow her, no, not on my watch, he needs to stay away from her, he’s done more damage than good, I need him far away from Alice, I walk to him holding on to his arm and telling him to stay away from her, and for the first time he faces me telling me to let go of him and that I am making her unhappy. What the hell does he know about happiness? All he has is failed relationships because of his little obsession with me. Devin calls me self centred and if we weren’t on such a public place I would’ve shown him how wrong he is, how all I want is Alice’s happiness by my side, all I want is to hear her laugh and see her smile again, see her eyes shining when she smiles and looks at me, see her biting her lips when I approach her and take her in my arms. “Where is she?”, I ask as I get inside the bathroom and I can’t see her anywh
Devin POV I haven’t gone back to London in over a month, I changed my phone number and I have been conducting my meetings from the cottage, I sold my flat and all my properties in London, I couldn’t bare the idea of going back. I have been keeping in touch with Rita’s mum and she updates me about Henry, he is my godson after all. I stopped reading the news and I am keeping to myself. I know Rita is still gone and I know that Harry is probably panicking. I have been taking care of my horses and of my mental health, I stopped drinking and went back to my meetings, I need to keep focused, my will to do drugs was too strong and I can’t cave, I’ve almost lost everything once and I can’t do it again. Once more Harry got everything he’s ever wanted and I was left with nothing. I roll to my side on the bed and I keep reminding me that we were younger back then, Harry couldn’t have done it on purpose. I
Alice POV I have been back in London for over a month, and I have to say I am not happy, or I am not as happy as I thought I would be. I thought that after our conversation, things would’ve gone back to normal, but they didn’t. Harry is distant, and I don’t like his touch anymore. In fact, we haven’t had sex since we came back to London. I am starting to notice small things about him that are making my skin crawl. Harry forgave me for sleeping with Devin, but I can’t say I forgave him for sleeping with Karen. I understand his reason for doing it, I know he is worried, and I know how much he is struggling with Rita’s disappearance, especially with Henry asking about her constantly. I know he is worried about the child Rita is carrying, I know, and I am worried too, but I think he went too far like; he enjoys the challenges like he enjoys when someone tries to control his decisions, and he does it to pro