BLAIR’S POV As it turned out, Collins was Stacy’s cousin, who flew in to spend a few weeks with them. He arrived Winchester before the storm, but waited to clear his vehicle and luckily, found me. When I realized this, I remained in the room I had been placed in and didn’t as much as move to the door, since I was scared of running into Brian. Stacy did not act like she was familiar with me, in the presence of Collins, and as far as Collins knew, I was the lady he helped, and his sister was gracious enough to host. The storm was still quite heavy and I seized that as an opportunity to tell Collins I couldn’t get out of bed, as I was still feeling weak from the storm I was a victim of. Collins served all my meals for the day in my room and luckily, Brian did not come up to my room, so, I succeeded in spending the day without seeing Brian, even though we were now in the same house. Stacy did not also bother to come up to my room, seeing that I was now conscious. “Good morning, Bl
BLAIR’S POV Sitting through the planning of colors and cake flavors of Stacy and Brian’s wedding, I couldn’t help think back, over and over on the day I walked out on having a real forever, with the only man I had truly come to love. I struggled to sit through, but had to keep acting happy for them both. Brian barely contributed and since Stacy wanted a loud wedding, the planning and selection of the things she wanted took our entire day. The planners had to join us for lunch and even dinner. Luckily, by the time the glorious day was done being planned, the rain had greatly reduced and it made their leaving, a lot easier. As soon as the door was locked behind them, I said goodnight to everyone and ran right up to my room, to nurse my broken heart. ‘Was I being punished for leaving?’‘Why did I return to Winchester, only to watch Brian get married to the woman that ruined our lives?’At this point, I wanted nothing more than to leave. It didn’t matter to me, if I had to walk in
BLAIR’S POV All through the drive home, I was greatly disturbed. Stacy was getting married in a week and any one would say she was getting married to the love of her life. Not everyone got to share the beautiful story of getting married to your high school or college sweetheart. Considering that their relationship, years ago, ended because she cheated, I thought she would do better than cheat on Brian again. If I didn’t know any better, I would say she probably had to, because Brian was bad in bed, or paid little attention to her, but that was not the case. In the few nights I had stayed, I would hear her moan, a little loudly and scream his name. This was the major reason I wanted to leave, as it was hard for me to imagine the first and only man who had me, deeply buried in another woman. ‘Why would she choose to hurt Brian like this again?’‘What if he found out?’‘Was I supposed to tell him?’I had conflicting thoughts. I didn’t want to be the one to break his heart again, a
BLAIR’S POV Early the next morning, I got out of bed and freshened up, hurrying downstairs. This was unlike me, who was never eager about leaving my room. I had spoken time and again about leaving the house, but Stacy insisted that I stayed for the wedding, and now, I was glad that I stayed. I was so positive that this was the reason why fate had designed for me to stay. I could finally uncover all her lying and deceit. Brian deserved a lot better. Breakfast table was already set, although no one was out to eat yet. I wasn’t sure what was wrong with Stacy and Collins, but I peeped outside to see Brian’s car just driving in. It was evident he hadn’t returned home, last night. Brian walked in and he looked quite tired. His shirt was wrongly buttoned and he looked quite shabby. It was the first time I was going to see Brian in such tattered manner. He staggered into the house and I hurried to get him. “Drunkenness?” I said, under my breath. “It’s all her fault,”
BLAIR’S POVStacy pulled my hair and Collins trying to pull her away from me only made it worse. “That’s enough!” Brian got out of bed and yelled.It surprised me to find Stacy completely smitten by Brian’s order. She had tears flowing down her cheeks and I was irritated by the hypocrisy. “How could you do this, Brian?” she cried bitterly, “Our wedding is in less than a week,”“Less than a week, Brian,” she yelled. Collins held her by the arms, while she threw her tantrums. Brian was quiet and feeling very bad and the entire drama was filling me with anger and disgust. “Why would you choose to betray me like this, Brian?” Stacy continued in tears, “To betray the love, I have for you? After all the sacrifices,”“Am I not enough, Brian?” She queried. “Isn’t Brian more than enough for you too, Stacy?” I had had enough and responded to her fake tears. Brian was surprised to see me responding to her since I had always been a shy girl and mostly was afraid of Stacy.Stacy and Coll
BLAIR’S POV I followed Brian to his room and he sat on the bed, thinking about every single word that had been said. Clearly, this was a hard pill for him to swallow, but at least now he knew the truth. I sat on the bed beside him and joined him to stare into blank space. We sat in silence for a while and I started to feel really terrible. I had no idea that Brian had genuinely come to love Stacy and that the information was going to crumble him this much. Yes, I was trying to save him from making a big mistake, but I couldn’t lie to myself enough to deny that my first push was jealousy. After minutes of silence, I decided to push myself to speak up. “I am so sorry, Brian,” I said, “Why?” he immediately responded. “I should be sorry,” he said, “I wasn’t the one who got humiliated and displayed naked. You were.”To that point, I had to bow my head. All I had on was a robe, which I managed to pick, after Brian yelled at Stacy to let me go. “Steven was right,” Brian said, mov
BRIAN’S POV All of my pleading for her to stay fell on deaf ears, including my request for her to marry me. I wasn’t sure what my offense was, but whatever it was, wasn’t something that Blair could let go of, especially considering how much of a hurry she was in to leave. I held her hand and had tears in my eyes, but when we both saw how strong-willed she was about leaving, I let her go. Not for a single day did I stop loving her, in all the while of her absence. Her absence only made my heart desire her more, even though I initially wanted to be angry at her for humiliating me and running away. Steven remained in the mansion with me and ran the companies mostly from home. He had moved out because of Stacy and now our lives were gradually taking back its shape. As for Stacy and Collins, they seemed to have disappeared into thin air, because they were nowhere to be found, within the city and there was also no record of them leaving the city. I genuinely didn’t care so much abo
BRIAN’S POV I placed a few calls and flew over to Maldives in a private plan and arrived at the perfect hour. Sebastine ran the hotel’s, full time now, so I wore a disguise and snuck him out, making a U-turn with Sebastine to Vegas. Sebastine filled me up on everything he knew, while on the trip, and I took the entire trip, boiling in anger. I hoped that for Jane’s sake, she had not laid a single finger on Blair. I was going to have the her stripped of everything, including her life, if I arrived Vegas and found that as much as a strand of hair was missing, off her body. All through the trip, I was impatient and this felt like the slowest I arrived Vegas, from anywhere in the world. As soon as we arrived, we went straight to Mr. Williams’ residence. We arrived a few hours to midnight, and at the gate, we met Ashley, about to walk in. “Ashley!” I called out to her in a loud voice. She hurriedly turned around looking scared, but heaved a sigh of relief when she realized it was