When you realise

18. Hunter's Nerves

It's been 3 weeks, 3 weeks of hell, 3 weeks of me calling her and her ignoring the calls, 3 weeks of me trying to run into her, 3 weeks of messages left with no reply, 3 weeks of constant heartache.

Melanie has told me that Ellie has thrown herself head first into work and is barely out of the office, she is at her desk before Mel starts and is still working away when Mel leaves. I am unable to access the office floor where she works or the elevator to her Penthouse without authorization. I don't want to ask Mel to let me up, I don't want to risk her job.

Since the night that Mel opened up and told me what Ellie had done for her and Rosie, I was in a bit of shock, I couldn't understand why nobody told me anything about what happened, Eliana never even told me, although she didn't tell me a lot of things apparently like who she was and what she did.

Melanie told me she asked Ellie not to say anything about the house or car, she said she didn't want it to get back to my mother. I knew my mother was harsh to any woman I bought home, I just didn't realize she made them feel any certain way, I guess I was just blind.

As Mel and I were sitting there that Sunday night, my mother and father happened to show up to my house, I saw Mel sink back into the chair and try to hide herself, she really didn't want to be around my mother, however my jaw dropped when my mother came over and sat beside her and apologized for the way she acted, she told her she was proud of the way she was raising Rosie to be a beautiful young lady and she wished that she had been more supportive from the beginning, that night ended in Mel and my mother crying in each other arms and promises of family dinners every Sunday night.

After Mel left that night with Rosie, I looked up Ellie on the internet, I typed 'Eliana Hastings' into the search bar. To say I was shocked was an understatement, Hotels, nightclubs, bars the list was incredible, she even owned the nightclub where we met. I read that she inherited 3 Hotels from her grandfather, they should of gone to her mother but her mother passed away, the article didn't say how her mother passed away but Ellie told me one night while lying in bed, she was in my arms and we were talking about what motivated us to go to college and she told me it was her mother and the fact that she never wanted to end up like her, she filled me in on the things her mother would do and say and then told me she found peace the day that her mother killed herself than she broke down in my arms saying she feels guilty for being happy that she is not around anymore, I spent that whole entire night just holding her.

After memorizing the list of establishments that Ellie owned, I started hanging out in the bars with the boys after work, occasionally the girls would come. I don't know what I was hoping for maybe I was just hoping to get a glimpse of her. Rachel has told me that both she and Bianca have tried to contact her but she is not answering their calls either.

The three girls had become close in the past year and they used to go out together for dinner and drinks 'girls night' as they called it. So the death stares from Rachel over the past 3 weeks have been relentless, she blames me for ruining another friendship of hers, she barely acknowledges me now. James keeps apologizing for her but I know I'm to blame.

I haven't told the boys yet that Ellie owns the places we have been going, they just know that I found out that she lives around here and I am hoping to run into her because she is still not returning my calls, every night before I go to sleep, I call her from my bed and I leave a good night message, asking her to call back, telling her I miss her, when Rosie is over we leave a message together. I don't know if she is listening to them, Melanie has told me she does not bring her personal phone into work anymore and she only has her work phone on her. I didn't ask her for that number because she would know that Melanie gave it to me.

I haven't told her over the messages that I am in love with her that is something that I want to do face to face, I want to see in her eyes when I tell her so I can see if she still loves me, so I can see for myself if I have any chance of winning her back.