All Chapters of The Arrogant Billionaire's Redemption: Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

I push open the large doors out of Trove like someone chased, hurried away from the building like I had fire at my heels, hurried with a singular purpose to get away from this man with words that dripped equal parts hope and despair straight to my festering heart,The moment I had felt his hold slip further, I grabbed my bag from the floor and was out of his office like a light.Even when my heart told me to go back to him, to go back to that confused man, help him sort through his feelings, And maybe, just maybe my heart would heal in the process,But, I couldn’t think about my heart now, I couldn’t throw caution to the wind based on just a tiny flicker of hope that could well be imaginings, based on words spoken by a confused man.I couldn’t not when I had a son to take care of, I couldn’t risk the only source of my happiness this last 6 years in pursuit of happiness that was surely an illusion.So I calm my thumping heart while climbing into a bus to Ajax’s school, tamp down the a

I was taken back to the day of our wedding, when he walked into the church cathedral and as he walked in I got stunned by the looks of the man who was to be my husband.When he walked down that aisle and I forgot my niggling annoyance for the fact that he was late,Now stunned was an understatement, he looked like he walked right out of my fantasies.He look dashing in his dark blue tuxedo, opting for a color similar to SM colors, like his mother,His hair, looked different from the slicked back monotones I was used to, it was slightly tousled, his midnight black hair falling over his face and eyes in just the right way,My mouth drops open when I see he’s actually smiling, A genuine smile,One that stretched from ear-to-ear, splitting his face and not just the diplomatic one he usually wore. I guessed he was actually happy for this, happy that his work for the past few months came out successful.I have to remind myself to close my mouth, to adjust the hand holding the camera over

‘Mum! Mum! Can we go home now, I’m done with my homework’, I feel Ajax’s palm in mine, pulling me in the direction of the door.As if snapped out of a reverie, the cold seeps away from Adam’s expression, replaced by a smile he turned on Ajax,‘That’s right, you should get to bed’, he ruffles his hair a bit, still smiling,But that smile roiled up my insides, no sitting quite right,Maybe it was the plastic look to it, or it was the cold look he gave earlier, that had now turned to dead-eyes, sitting contrasting over his stretched lips.He pulls the memory card from his phone, placing it on his table and I grab it without a moment’s notice,‘I should get home’, I return his plastic smile, heading for the door, wondering if I actually knew this man I called friend.With mixed feelings, I roll out of bed out of bed the next morning, With mixed feelings, I raise my heavy head, filled to the brim with thoughts that hunted me the entire night,I roll out of bed and prepare for the day ahea

Did I hear right? or did I finally loose my mind?, unable to differentiate fiction and reality, or had I slept off on the armchair? catapulted into one of my day dreams.Or was this a joke?Unable to control myself any longer, I laugh out loud, uncontrollably, till tears bud on the edges of my eyes.‘Protect!’ I test the word on my tongue, a snicker racking through me.Simon stared at me still, eyes soft, even as I turned my face everywhere but those captivating orbs, in the process of laughter.‘I know I have not been the best of persons…’, he continues but gets interrupted by my loud scoff,‘What best, you were the worst person in my life, the worst person I ever encountered’, ‘You get that Simon, you were the worst’, I say this energetically not minding the way his look turned beaten.‘I was unable to sleep last night, all through the night I thought of you, what you said’I wipe at the corners of my eyes, my face turned into a mask of indifference with the words coming out of Sim

Lunch had ended, so the restaurant was sparsely filled, since lunch rush was over, Bella had taken a seat close to me, head drawn forward in a gossipy stance.I draw closer to her, not minding the bewildered look on her face, shushing her when she got loud.‘You must be bat shit crazy’, she whispers it this time, still looking at me,A laugh ripples from my insides, seeing her serious face.‘This is not a laughing matter, Tina’‘How could you agree to be friends? You’re the one losing’, she eyes me up and down as I laugh,‘This is not about losing or winning, Bella, it’s about trying to let go of heartache’She still eyes me as I continue,‘I’ve held unto hatred, bitterness for years and it has turned my heart into a black, ulcered mess’, my expression sours for a moment,‘So that’s it, you’re just going to forgive him, just like that’, she raises her hand up, expressive in discouraging me.‘No, he hurt me too much, I can’t forgive him just yet, I’m just giving him a chance to win my