All Chapters of Marriage Contract: the Billionaire and I: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

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Eighty-one

“Why don’t you want me to?” he asks in confusion. Because I feel bad about kicking you out of your own house. Papers mean nothing to me and even if they stipulate that I’m now the owner, I don’t care. “Because eyes will be on us. People will get suspicious upon seeing us not living together after I got kidnapped and raped. It may make you seem bad, I definitely don’t want that to happen,” I explain to him. And I’m scared and you make me feel safe and I don’t know what I’m going to do after we sign the divorce papers, but I’m incredibly hurt and I cannot look past what you’ve done. That’s what I want to tell him, but I can’t do that. He stares at me for a moment, then nods. I’m holding a sigh of relief inside of me that I wish I can let out. “What about your parents and Henry? What are you going to do with them?” he asks me. “I don’t want to talk to them. I want them to forget me. I don’t want anything to do with them.” Do I mea
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Eighty-two: Nathan

Her wretched, heart-tearing screams wake me up from my deep sleep and in a matter of seconds, I reach her room. This is the third night in a row, but this is worse. Way worse than last night or the night before. The first time I woke her up, she seemed embarrassed. I didn't understand why. It's not her fault that she's getting nightmares. The second time was worse than the first one that I found traces of tears on her pale cheeks. “Please stop!” she yells out. “Please!” she desperately screams. “Linnea! Wake up!” I shake her body. Seeing her like that hurts the hell out of me. She looks fragile before me with the way she’s twisting and turning in her bed. Her forehead is sweaty, making her hair stick to it. When she gains consciousness, she jolts from her position and pushes herself away from me with pure fear written all over her face and crystal clear in her eyes. That’s a first. She has never been scared of me before. “It’s just me. I’m Nat
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eighty-three

For the past thirty-two days, everything has been working in my favour. Walter was sentenced to twenty years and Alice was sentenced to ten years. Everybody was there at the court hearing and despite the fact that I didn't say a word to any of them, they didn't leave my side. I almost got swallowed in the sea of reporters, but Henry managed to take me away from them. He spent fifteen minutes or more calming me down. I hate myself for pushing them away, but I'm still hurt. My therapist told me that this is normal because I faced too many shocks in a short period of time. Still, guilt is eating me alive. I can’t believe that my wedding anniversary was a few days ago, yet I did nothing to celebrate it. If the circumstances had been different, I’m sure Nathan would have prepared a huge surprise for me and I would have done the same too. I look at myself in the mirror and make sure I look as normal as possible. I don't want my appearance to scream rich. I'
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Eighty-four: Nathan

I’m worried about Linnea. It’s almost been three hours since she left and I’m on pins and needles. Ever since what happened to her, my protectiveness increased. I thought about sending a bodyguard after her, but if she found out, she’d hate me more and that’s the last thing I want. Maybe her mother turned out to be a nice woman and they’re catching up. I don’t need to always assume the worst. I have already informed her parents and Henry about where she went today. I have been giving them updates about her regularly since she refuses to talk to any of them. The doorbell rings and Carole goes to open it. I’m hoping it’s Linnea because I’m tired of worrying about her. “She’s not back yet, is she?” Henry asks once he walks inside. At least I won’t be worrying on my own now. “No, she’s not. I wish I could just call her. I don’t even know what I’m allowed to do with her anymore.” I sigh in frustration. “At least she talks to you. She has been ghost
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Eighty-five

“Linnea, Henry is really sorry and he regrets everything he has said to you. He’s just scared of your reaction. That’s why he hasn’t called you,” Zoey says, looking at me. I’m currently hanging out with Thalia and Zoey at Thalia’s place. Henry broke the news about my vacation then my moving to the UK to my parents and Zoey. He told his fiancee about what he had said to me and I’m not really sure what he expects me to do or say. “He wouldn’t have said what he said if he didn’t mean at least a part of it and I can assure you that all parts are equally painful,” I tell her, playing with the edge of the cushion I’m holding. “Maybe he was frustrated. Henry has never been ghosted by you and this is taking its toll on him,” Thalia tries to lighten the intensity of what he said to me. “And… we’re supposed to be getting married after a while and he told me before it’s so hard on him to not have you involved in all of the planning. He has always imagined doing
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Eighty-six: Nathan

She doesn’t understand what she means to me. She doesn’t know that she’s the oxygen I breathe, and my life is meaningless and incomplete without her. I’m aware of the mistakes I made, and I regret tricking her into marrying me, but if she just gives me a chance, I will live the rest of my life making it up to her for every second she spent crying because of me. What slightly calms the fire in my heart is the fact that I know she still loves me. If she doesn’t love me, she would have told me that she hated me. She didn’t and I’m really thankful that she didn’t because nothing would have stopped my heart from bleeding if I had heard her saying these words. Linnea has become my world, to the extent that I don’t know what my life used to be like before her. I don’t know how I used to make myself happy before her. Everything before her is hazy and I’m okay with this. I don’t want that version of my life before her. I just want her. I want her to forgive me
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Eighty-seven

I have been here for ten days, yet I have barely left my suite. I’m in California, a city that never sleeps; however, I’m locking myself in my room because there’s nothing I feel like doing. There's this numbness inside of me that I can't seem to get rid of most of the time. The few occasions it leaves me it gets replaced by a heavy pain that makes me cry my eyes out. There are tons of things that can be done in this huge city, yet nothing is sparking my interest. Hell, I’m even eating most of my meals here. This is extremely unhealthy. Despite how down I'm feeling, I force myself out of bed and decide to head to the hotel’s restaurant for dinner. Maybe I can take a walk around afterwards. I need to freshen up. I have been having online sessions with my therapist and she's concerned about my mental well-being. She thinks that I have gotten worse since I left. I agree with her but I don't want to tell her that out loud. I’m starting to think that coming here w
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Eighty-eight

I've been here for eighteen days and I wish I could say I'm getting better. I'm getting worse. I'm being swallowed by my dark thoughts. I'm losing myself and slowly slipping away. This city is beautiful but not as beautiful as Miami. Maybe I’m being biased because it’s my hometown. It’s a place that has all my childhood memories and my family. I miss every single one of them. I have been wandering around the city for hours. The sun was still there when I stepped out of the hotel, but it's dark now. Whenever I look around, I see people walking, talking, and having fun with their loved ones. This is enough to spark my jealousy, to make me think of everything I threw behind. I don’t know if I have it in me to start fresh. To look for new people whom I can consider family. I don’t want that. I think my family now knows how to live without me. I have been away for long and maybe they're better off without me. I bring a lot of drama. They deserve a quiet and peacef
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Eighty-nine

Knocks on the door wake me up. Whoever is knocking isn't taking a break, as if I sleep right behind the door. I rub my eyes and stumble to the door. I’m so tired. I look through the peephole and find Nathan. Butterflies dance in my stomach and I quickly open the door. The moment I open the door, he engulfs me in his arms and I let him. I scared him. I scared all of them. They saved me. I wrap my arms around him and he kisses my forehead and my cheeks as he holds me tightly. “You’re okay, aren’t you?” His tone is full of fear. The way his arms are tightening around me makes me feel protected, like nothing in this world could ever harm me. Not even my dark thoughts. “I’m alright. What’s wrong? Weren’t we on a video call after we hung up on the phone?” I frown, looking at him. Why does he seem so pale and breathless like that? “Your tablet ran out of battery I think. I tried to call you on your phone, but you didn’t answer. I spent the last three hours o
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Ninety: Nathan

I don't know what's going on between Linnea and me, but I will accept whatever she decides to give me. I can't ask much of her right now, not when she's in this state, not when she's far from being stable. I can never emotionally manipulate the girl I love into being with me when I know quite well her thoughts are all over the place. I cannot ask her to make such a huge decision about our relationship when she can barely think straight. I still can't believe what was about to happen. I almost lost her. Forever. There's a difference between losing somebody you love, but knowing they're okay and alive and losing somebody forever, knowing that you can never listen to their voice again or see them in front of you ever again.  I would rather have her alive and safe and sound while being away from me than not have her at all or, God forbid, have her dead. I look at her in my arms and silently thank God that I get to hold her again. She looks incredibly
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