All Chapters of DIAMOND HART: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

Soon, Chris' project was off, and the launch was on. Starr hadn't wanted to go to the launch party, since she hadn't since Chris walked out of her apartment. She had told herself that she was fine and didn't need a man to be happy, but whenever she stayed at home, her mind always managed to linger on him whenever she saw any spot he had stood or stayed before in her house. It made it almost impossible for her to sleep in her room, so she often slept in her guest room instead. Magnus had also been giving her space, also focusing on the project. He had been showing up at her office, just to say hi and check up on her, but he didn't bring Chris up at all and didn't talk about Valentine. They were doing fine like that. For some reasons, she was yet to agree to, Starr found herself at Chris's launch party. It was a small gathering, but people had actually turned up for it. A lot of people, apart from the owner of the launch party. Starr had taken her time to search the entire party for Chr

It had been a bright, sunny day, and Christopher had woken Starr to a breakfast bed he had prepared for her. She had woken up feeling good, glad that things were pulling together in her life and she was letting herself let go. “Morning,” she had greeted him as he pecked her lips, smiling.“Morning,” he replied her. “Did you have a nice night's rest?”Starr chuckled and nodded as she replied, “Never been better.” She smiled as she took a sip from the cup of water that had been on the tray, but the moment the water entered her mouth and was about to flow to her throat, she began to feel nauseous. She quickly jumped off the bed. “Want to throw up,” she had managed to tell Christopher as she looked around the room frantically, trying to search for his bathroom.“This way,” Chris had quickly said as he led her out of his bedroom, into the opposite room, which turned out to be his bathroom. He let her bend over at his white ceramic sink, letting her pour out the contents of her mouth, while

“So, what is the issue?” Christopher had asked Adam the moment he stepped into his sitting room. Adam dropped his suitcase by a sofa as he sat and said, “Please do have your seat, Mr. Chariton,” Adam replied, enjoying how his face became covered with worry. Adam would have loved to tease him a bit longer, but he had another appointment for the day and didn’t want to be late. Christopher Chariton's mind had begun to run. He had imagined a hundred worst-case scenarios before he finally sat down. “What is it Adam? Is it curable?”Adam was on the verge of losing his cool, about to burst out laughing. “No, Christopher.”Christopher felt his heart sink at his words, panicking. “She?”“The thing is that…” Adam had trailed, letting Christopher panic before he said, “She is with a child.” Then he smiled.The news took some time to process before it all settled in. Magnus was the first person to sink the information in. “She suspected right,” he muttered to himChristopher didn’t know how to a

“He had better not,” Starr had said with a frown, lifting her legs up to put on the chair, getting a bit comfortable.Sorcha noticed how relaxed and comfortable she had gotten, and that made her feel lighter, like some burden had been taken off her. It was like a snippet of the old Starr, and that felt like a reminder that old Starr was still present and available. “Whenever I did come over to your place,” Sorcha had said, causing Starr to become conscious once more and tense. “You weren’t exactly the nicest.” Starr felt a certain type of warmth rush round her body, as she was filled or wrapped with sadness. All the regret she had been trying to avoid, appeared right in her presence.She didn’t reply Sorcha, but instead looked away in hope that Sorcha was going to notice she didn’t want to talk about it and drop the topic. She wasn’t ready yet.And as she hoped, Sorcha didn’t press on, but rather continued her story. “I do have friends, but I’m not exactly close to anyone. You were kin

Sorcha and Starr were singing along to a nineties pop, while Sorcha drove them to an eatery of her choice. Starr had wanted her to be comfortable, so she had chosen the eatery she wanted to go to and what she wanted to eat. Their voice had gone higher, and they both had wide smiles on. It was a song their dad had played a lot when they were younger. He played it on weekends, so they could all sing and dance to it. He would lift them from the ground, while they took turns deciding who he was going to throw and twirl, their laughter echoing around the house. That was happiness to Starr, till she grew and life changed. “I miss him,” Sorcha had suddenly said, causing the ambience of the vehicle to move from way up there, to down there.Starr went silent, making Sorcha think she had said something wrong. Her heart began to beat as a reminder that she could send Starr back into the cave she had been in. But then, Starr smiled as she replied, “Me too.”Sorcha felt like all the storms she had