Chapter 4

"After the incident with Steve..." Mirabel explained to Arabella, how she walked down the streets under the heavy rain and ended up losing consciousness.

"Do you want to kill yourself for a guy" Arabella shouted at her, "Do you want to end up dying cause of cold" she continued scolding her, it was obvious that she was beyond angry right now.

Mirabel looked at her, she couldn't do or say anything, she realized she was wrong, she shouldn't have tried that no matter how broken she was.

"You can scold me later on but please let me finish my story," Mirabel said and Arabella finally calmed down.

Mirabel continued from how she woke up and found herself in someone's house, and also everything that transpired with her and the man, she didn't forget to mention the part where she foolishly promised to pay back by telling him she owes him.

Arabella held her head, she could feel a headache coming in, everything was so complicated, Oh God.

"So... What are you going to do now?" Arabella asked, "Where are we going to get such an amount of money from," Arabella said

"Honestly, I don't know where I can get it from that's why I'm asking," Mirabel said tiredly, she only gets paid fifty to eighty dollars at the end of the month.

Mirabel was a B-list actress under 'Spark light entertainment' she wasn't famous enough so she only earned little.

"I can get you 1000 USD, sorry that's all I have," Arabella said, she wanted to help Mirabel with all she can, but she knew it would be rejected.

No matter how close they were, Mirabel wasn't the type to get help from others.

Mirabel smiled "You do know I won't accept it," she said.

" Please just accept it, it's not much but if you add something it might be enough," Arabella said

"I'm so bored, let's do something to keep ourselves busy," Mirabel said to change the topic, Arabella could only sigh.

"Let's go to the grocery store then, I need to buy some stuff," Arabella said

"Good idea, let me dress up first, I can't go out looking like this," Mirabel said and went inside her room to change.

****

A black car was parked outside the apartment, it had been there ever since Mirabel entered her apartment this morning.

He saw her when she entered the house but he couldn't do anything, he badly wanted to walk up to her and explain everything but he couldn't.

He should have been careful, he wanted to walk up to Mirabel and hug her and tell her it would all be okay, but he no longer had the right to do so besides he was the person that hurt her this time around.

Steve sat inside his car, not daring to come out, his hair was disheveled, and he looked like this since the day he called her and told her that they should break up.

He was getting married to Catherine by the end of next month, he wanted to talk to Mirabel and explain but he had no right to, anytime he tried to call her, he would end up backing down just in the last moment, he had no right to do that any longer.

After staying for hours he finally drove away, staying there would do him no good.

A few minutes after he left, Mirabel and Arabella came out of the house and walked down the street toward the grocery store nearby.

****

Catherine sat down at the restaurant waiting for him to come, he was thirty minutes late now.

Steve dropped by his house before going to the restaurant to meet Catherine, when he entered he saw her sitting at a quiet place in the restaurant and he joined her.

"Why did you ask to meet? what do you want to say?" He asked her, Catherine was surprised by his reaction and the tone in his voice didn't seem friendly in any way.

"I wanted to talk about us," she said after a moment. Steve lifted his eyebrows

"What about us?" He didn't know why but ever since he saw her at his parent's house the other day, he felt she wasn't as innocent as she always showed when they worked together.

His tone and how he acted around her changed drastically, they could have settled it on good terms if she came to him first but no, she went straight to his parents.

"Don't you think we should meet each other more often since the wedding is closer and I'm carrying your baby in my womb?" she said shyly looking down.

Steve felt disgusted "There's no need for that," he said coldly.

"Huh?" Catherine didn't understand what he was trying to say.

"There's no need to meet more often from now, I think we'll meet after marriage," he said

Catherine finally understood what he was saying, he was rejecting meeting up with her. To say the least, she was beyond pissed, this wasn't how Steve acted toward her before.

"Why are you being like this towards me?" She asked angrily, she never expected him to talk this way to her.

"How exactly?" Steve asked, "Am I different from how I acted before, cause I doubt I changed, who knows, maybe you were the one that changed" he said

She finally realized that she has crossed the line and gone overboard too much, so she smoothened her manners and composure.

"Did I do anything wrong?" She asked

"No, you didn't," Steve said. Catherine tried to put her hands above Steve's hand which was on the table but he retracted his hands before she could hold him.

"I have a meeting to attend now, I'll pay the bills before leaving, I'm off," he said and stood up from the seat.

Catherine's hand was left hanging after he left, she didn't understand what was going on, why did he change how he treated her, though she was only his secretary, he always treated everyone around him well, so why the sudden change towards her?

Her thoughts shifted to Mirabel, 'he is like this all because of that wench' she thought to herself, he changed just because he couldn't go back to his beloved, Catherine thought deeply about this.

She suddenly grinned mischievously and clicked her tongue 'No matter what, you are mine now, and you can't go back to her, I won't hesitate to harm her if I can't have you just for myself' she thought to herself.

Trouble came knocking at an innocent Mirabel's door.