Chapter 86: Not Worth It
Brandon’s P.O.V
‘Loving you…has brought me nothing but pain and suffering…I’m done loving you, Brandon.’
Faith’s words kept on reverberating inside my head over and over again, as I stood frozen in my spot, watching her run out the cabin and disappear into the crowd.
I tried to keep track of her gray hoodie for as long as I could, but soon, she was lost in a seal of people that I didn’t even recognize…and my heart shredded into a million pieces inside my chest.
Loving you…has brought me nothing but pain and suffering…
I shook my head, trying to get her voice out; her voice out of my mind.
But it persisted. Like nails on a chalkboard…over and over again…
I’m done loving you, Brandon.
I wasn’t worthy, was I?
I was no longer worthy of being loved or cared about?
I was just a big fuck up who made other people’s live
Chapter 87: Never PregnantBrandon’s P.O.V“Brandon!”Julia turned to face us with a gasp of horror, revealing the scene behind her. And right then…I felt like the ground had slipped from under my feet.Faith…she was lying on the floor amid the dust and the debris…as blood pooled around her legs…Even in the darkness of the room, I could identify the blood clearly. It was thick and dark and it flower slowly…almost eerily around her.Her face was contorted in pain and her eyes slowly closed as she slumped on the ground…and my heart thrashed against my ribcage as fear gripped my heart in its icy fingers.“Faith!”I pushed past Julia’s form as she stood unmoving and horrified in the middle of the room.Kneeling on the floor beside her, the first thing I did was to check for a pulse. Pressing my fingers against her neck, I felt around until I felt the slow but steady beat of her heart and then I saw her chest moving, but barely.“You’ll be alright.” I told her, my entire body trembling as
Chapter 88: Recovery Brandon’s P.O.V “What?” My mind went completely blank for a second. “I-I don’t…understand…I…?” “Please, have a seat, Mr. Wolfram.” The doctor pointed to the side where the chairs lined the hallway. “I think it’s better if I explain to you what happened to Ms. Millar.” I nodded my head slowly, unable to do anything else. It was almost like my brain had given up trying to process everything and was just shutting down… Never pregnant? How was that even possible? Debby called me didn’t she? She called me to tell me that Faith wanted to talk to me about her pregnancy…so I guess that she had done tests? She must have…otherwise…how would she even have known that she was pregnant? And now…the doctor was telling me that Faith had never been pregnant? Nothing was making sense anymore, damnit! I plopped down onto the seat then, and the doctor took the seat beside me. Maybe the shock on my face must have convinced him to give me the details of Faith’s condition; othe
Chapter 89: Breaking DownBrandon’s P.O.VEvery cry broke my heart. Every tear felt like a lash on my skin.Helplessly, I slid down the closed doors to sit on the floor; my knees pressed to my chest and my hands clutching them together.Dear god! Why was I even alive?All I did was cause her pain and suffering. Every time I felt like we had finally closed up our distances; managed to clear out our misunderstandings…it just reverted back to square one. I fucked up all over again and Faith ends up being the person who suffers because of my mistakes.Guilt didn’t even begin to define the feeling I hand in my mind at the moment.What had I done? Why had I been so stupid? Why hadn't I thought things through? Why? Why?WHY?I clutched at my hair as the whole scene played out in my head over and over again. Her shocked whisper…it buzzed in my ears until it bec
Chapter 90: Working on OurselvesFaith’s P.O.VThe moment I saw Brandon walk into my room once again, carrying a small bouquet of flowers…I knew that everything I had told myself in the last half hour…everything I tried to make myself believe; that he was gone for good, and that I was better off without him…it was all going to come crashing down around me in a matter of seconds.“Why are you back?” I asked in an almost inaudible voice. “I told you I didn’t want to see you anymore.”I was tired…just tired. Everything was overwhelming at the moment. From the way I reacted to seeing Brandon after hearing the news about my false pregnancy from the doctors, to how I was feeling after seeing him once again…this mix of frustration and hope.All these feeling were overwhelming my senses, making me question my sanity. I didn’t know if it was from t
Chapter 91: BeliefsFaith’s P.O.V“What just happened?”Debby poked her head in through the slightly ajar door as she looked around the room as if trying to find something. “I just leave for a bathroom break for two seconds and I come back to find Brandon leaving the room like a sad, little puppy that’s been kicked to the curb?”“Come in, Debby.” I sighed, knowing I was in for a lecture. “And shut the door behind you.”“Aye, aye!” She did as she was told and then she came and sat on the chair next to the bed that Brandon had occupied not too long ago. “So…wanna tell me what you just did? Because I smell something fishy. I was hoping to find you guys’ knee deep in each other already but you sending away Brandon? Nope…definitely fishy. And I promise I’m wearing new underwear.”“Eww!” I scrunched up my nose before another sigh left my lips. At this rate, I’ll be spending the rest of my life in misery, because my mother used to say that one sigh equals one unhappy day. “I…told him to apol
Chapter 92: MisunderstandingsFaith’s P.O.VShit!A sudden thought occurred in my head as I watched the two officers enter my room, led by the doctor, as Debby stood up from her chair to face them, almost taking a protective stance in front of me.What if…did the cops find out about the race course?Ethan did mention that it was illegal, right? That I shouldn’t be there? That only selected people got invited into the arena?There were cops at the entrance as well…keeping their eyes on anyone who didn’t belong there…Was that why they were here?Did they…want to take me to prison? Because I went there even though I hadn't been invited?Dear lord! I should’ve told Debby before I went! Or at least I should’ve called someone! Then I wouldn’t be in trouble right now…“Doctor? Officers’?” Debby’s worried voice cut through my pensive thoughts. “What’s the matter? Is everything alright?”“Only Ms. Millar can help us devise that, I’m afraid.” The doctor answered, his expression rigid as he wel
Chapter 93: Unexpected Confrontations Brandon’s P.O.V The plain white walls of the six storied apartment building brought on a bittersweet avalanche of memories as I got out of the elevator on the second floor and walked down the almost familiar hallways before coming to a stop in front of the same door where I had stood in front of countless times before. Memories from the past came rushing back in waves, making me recall all the times I had stood in front of this very door, sometimes with an expensive bouquet of roses in my hand and sometimes with takeout from a fine dining restaurant. How many times had we slammed these very doors? Sometimes in passion, sometimes in anger and sometimes in dejection? Time was indeed a funny thing, wasn’t it? Because once, when these same emotions had threatened to engulf me in agony…now they were like fleeting images at the back of my mind, hardly evoking even a quarter of the same emotions that I had once felt for the woman who lived behind the
Chapter 94: Calling a TruceBrandon’s P.O.VThe weight of every revelation that Scott had just reveled to me came crashing down on me.How had I not noticed any of this?Julia’s parent’s getting a divorce? Julia’s mother turning into an alcoholic? Scott taking up the void that I had left in her life?How had I been so ignorant all this time?What made it worse was the fact that I didn’t remember anything from that time. The whole year, from the time my mother died, to the time that woman, my father’s secretary seduced me into sleeping with her…to the point where I was driven by my irrational hate and anger towards the rest of the world…all of it was one big blacked out blur and I could hardly remember any of it.I tried to remember the times when I had ignored Julia. When I had ignored Scott and Cole and Sagar…But all of it was a blur. N