Along With The Night (The Billionaire's Love #5)

Epilogue

I looked down from the window of my two-story house on the campus. And then I touched her name that I had tattooed on my skin. Violet has left me broken and gone off the radar after that. She hasn't contacted Myra or anyone else. 

I have the ring that I gifted her around my neck. It is a symbol of what I shouldn't have done in my life. I shouldn't have left myself unguarded at all. I shouldn't have and now even as I pass the three-month mark, my heart stays the same. Rigid and uncaring about anything and anyone.

I do not care at all about anything. I looked at the time it was three in the morning. The sun will not come up for another three hours. I walked back to my bed and fell on it. I had to distance myself. I had to walk away living there wasn't an option.

 Living there would have only made me bitter and I am bitter from the beginning. I do not wish to add up to that pile.

I took the wallet off my bedside table and looked at her picture. Violet, my sweet Violet, even after your betrayal my heart wants nothing but you. My mind thinks about nothing but you, my body wants to hold you close, and never to let go. 

Why you have to destroy me this way, Violet? Why didn't you warn me about it? Why didn't you made me aware of the dangers of being with a treacherous thing like you? I wish you have. Then I would have prepared myself better for your betrayal.

I took my Nike and put them on. I saw the time it was little after four-thirty. I am again thinking about all the things we did together. And I cannot put my heart and mind out of it. I took out my headphone and let the music drown my sorrows as I walked out of the house locking it.

It was a new day and I saw the students all around me. Few greeted me, girls just looked at me and shied away. They were going through their morning schedule as for every other military school this too has many rules to follow. But I am just a temporary instructor here. 

As I was best in the technical field, and good with weapons, when I called my old commanding officer gave me the post and a chance to escape which I needed at that time desperately.

I needed the place to think and gather my thoughts. I needed to start again. And I do not mind being here teaching the students. It passes my time and I have something better to do. "Hello, Mr. Night" I heard someone greet me. 

"Hello Samantha, Maurice, Damien, isn't it a nice day to have a run?" I asked. "Yes sir, it is." I heard them say. "Then best you keep up with me. That is if you can" They looked at me and I didn't slow my pace. They tried to match mine and we ran.

As I reached my house, they were already tired from the run. "How you always manage to beat us, Sir?" Damien asked and I smirked. "That is called tactics young man. You need to know how to divide your efforts. That is how you will be a good soldier." I told them as they took a bottle to themselves. I saw a familiar car waiting outside my door.

"Were you expecting someone sir?" I saw they were on alert. "No, not exactly but the man is hardly a threat." I saw someone come out in a chef's apron. "Breakfast guys?" I chuckled at Ezra. Trust him to find a way in as always. "I would like you all to meet my brother Ezra." They said their hellos and Ezra nicely made them each a plate.

"Why are you here? And how did you find me?" I asked once we are done and he said goodbye to the guests. "Lucian you need to come home." I looed away helping him clean. "I cannot, there is nothing left for me there." Nothing after that night. "Lucian, I know you were hurt, we were all hurt knowing what had gone down with you and Violet. But we are your family and we will always need you. I need you to stay with me. Besides how long can I watch over your company and mine? Damien and Landon are also trying but we all need you."

I kept the plates away. "It had been three long months," I know Ezra. "It had only been three months Ezra I cannot return to that..." "Violet is back and she is not as she left" I looked at him questioning. "I do not need to hear it. I do not need to hear anything about her. Nothing you say can make me come back to her. Nothing." I told him. "she didn't come alone Lucian, she is pregnant, three months. And she cannot support it, not like she is."

"The child is not mine; I have given her access to my credit card; she can use the money. I am not going back." I told him with finality. He held my collar and hit me hard. I swung my fists too."She is with a child Lucian and she is helpless, her sister begged me to reach you because since she has arrived, she tried to kill herself twice. She is unstable and she is not talking to anyone. She is not eating, nor drinking, she is traumatized. And she is with a baby, probably yours. She needs you."

I wiped the blood off my lips. "I am not the father. She sleeps around and probably got into something again she cannot get out from. Why should I lose my sleep over her again?" I asked him. "Because you still love her, and you do not leave a woman in peril like this Son." I saw my commanding officer. He, I think heard all my words.

"Sir, I wasn't aware that you were coming," I told him. "No, but how did you think your brother got your whereabouts?" The ever-resourceful Ezra Michael Olyphant. "Go home son, and be with the one who you love. It is the only way you can forgive yourself for what happened." I looked at Ezra who had a hopeful expression in his eyes.

 "And before you do, make sure you take him to the nurse. You hit him pretty hard there. But your brother too has a good arm." He said and left. "Come on, let's get you home."

He drives me home because I haven't bought my own car here. And because he thought I will run away again if he dared left me alone like this. But I have promised to see the matter myself and I have never ever backed away from a promise before. I am not starting now. "when you reach there, please don't act out in anger. I beg you. She isn't in the condition of having any conversation." He sounded concerned. Not many things can make him concerned. He turned towards Myra's place. So, they are residing there.

He walked out and I followed. "Don't shout alright?" I nodded. "I will not shout I promise." He looked skeptical but he didn't stop again till we are inside. "Lucian" Myra hugged me. That was another surprise. She was the one who resented me.

 "Thank god you are here; I don't know who else to turn to for help." She led me to the bedroom. And left me there. "Please be careful with her, she is too unstable now." I nodded and slowly opened the door. And I saw her sitting on the bed looking towards the empty wall.

I closed the door. "Violet?" I called she didn't look at me. As if she cannot hear me at all. "Querida?" I called softly and she turned around and looked at me with those lifeless eyes of hers. Her face cracked into a smile and then she stood up walked towards me falling almost twice on her wobbly feet before I caught her. She touched my face and I closed my eyes.

 "You came" She whispered. "I did Querida." She hugged me and I stood there stiff. I cannot do this, but I have to. I know I have to, because I love her still, and this time I am not going to get over it. 

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