Cy's P.O.V
"What did you think would happen?!" Ben asks agitated.
"Not this! Look.." I breathe out, pushing my hair back. "Of course I expected her to be in shock, I just didn't expect her to run away, from me." I slump down on his office couch in frustration.
"What was it like to see her again?" I turn to him, shaking my head as if I'm shaking away the haze I'm in.
"It was .. surreal, the moment I saw her it was as if something tugged at my heart and I don't think I can ever turn it off." I confess.
"Okay mate, let me ask you this, what's the end game here? Because if all you're going to do is mess up her life only to leave her heart broken, again, then you should leave New York right now."
"I'm not going to do that." I won't lie and say I'm not a little offended but I get where he's coming from. "I won't do that to her ever again, or let anyone else hurt her for that matter." Determination laced in my voice.
"So what now ?"
"Now, I get my girl back."
Aurora's P.O.V
"A I just think that you shouldn't-"
"Kim, honestly, I'm fine. I just need to get back to work, I have been working from home for almost two weeks now and it's time for the pity party to stop." Kim and I are currently going back and forth on how she doesn't think it's a good idea for me to go back to work 'so soon', as she says but honestly I feel like if I don't go back to work I'm going to loose my fucken mind. Putting on my shoes I grab my keys and head out. "Bye K." I say closing the door quickly.
"Aurora!" Is the last thing I hear before dashing for my car, I know for a fact that if I didn't leave as quick as I did, we would still be arguing. Arriving at work I make my way to my office.
"Miss Anderson." Justin says surprised, right! I forgot to tell him I was coming in today.
"Justin, good morning, I hope you have been handling everything accordingly."
"Yes, of course but I feel like there's something I should tell you before you go into your-" Opening my door I stop dead in my tracks, air leaving my mouth but no words are coming out.
"What the hell is this Justin?!" I yell and the office goes quiet.
"This is what I was trying to warn you about, these have been arriving everyday, in batches of four, from the day you started taking time off and this isn't even half of it. We had to throw some away because they were dying." My eyes move from left to right as I look at the multiple flower bouquets, covering my office, down to the last floor space. Hydrangeas and white roses, my favourites. Feeling a smile creep onto my lips I shut it down immediately, crushing my emotions, I cannot and will not allow myself to feel anything.
"Throw them away."
"All of them?" Justin asks shocked.
"Yes all of them, I want them all gone and I don't want to see not even a single peddle. Do I make myself clear?" I command not leaving room for a debate.
"Yes Miss Anderson." He says leaving.
"Justin wait.." Turning around he looks at me expectantly. "Donate them to the children's hospital, I can't call myself an environmentalist then throw away beautiful flowers, and I'm pretty sure it'll brighten up the kids' day." I choose to work from the boardroom, giving Justin and the men he hired some space. I swamp myself in work all day, catching up on things that I missed and taking on new tasks. I get so wrapped up in work that I don't realise how late it is until Kim calls me.
Kim: A when are you coming home?
Aurora: Wait, what time is it?
Kim: It's close to midnight and you're usually home by eleven o'clock, latest.
Aurora: Sorry, I got too consumed with work, I'm leaving the office now so I'll be home soon.
Hanging up I gather all my things and get ready to leave, making a quick detour to my office to leave the drafts I was working on. When I place them on my desk I notice a single white rose and immediately I get frustrated.
"I thought I told Justin that I didn't want to see a single ped-" There's a note, stapled on it.
- You can't hide from me forever αγάπη μου
But just know that I'm not giving up on you that easily, this time.
Cy
Throwing the rose into the bin I rush to my car and quickly head home, why? Why now? After all this time, why is he choosing to turn my life upside down yet again, is he not happy with the amount of damage he caused last time?! Arriving home, I find the lights out, Kim must be in bed.
"So is this how it's going to be from now on?" She asks making me jump out of my skin.
"Kim, you scared the crap out of me!" I saying placing a hand over my chest to calm my beating heart.
"Is this what you'll be doing now? Hmm."
"I don't know what you're talking about." I say heading to the refrigerator to see what I can eat.
"You know exactly what I'm talking about, you're drowning yourself in your work and I know for a fact that you are going to start pulling all nighters, because you'll do anything to block your brain from even thinking about him. Yet you won't notice that you're not taking care of yourself until you hit the fucken floor like last time isn't it?!" My eyes shoot wide open.
"Kimberly." I say taken aback.
"No." She says holding up her hand, she is furious. "I know that you're the one who was hurting and crying and broken but I can't do this again Aurora, I can't watch you slowly slip away again, because just like he broke you back then, so did I when I watched you crumble. You broke me too so, if you're going to shut me out yet again and go through all of this alone only to have me pull you out before you KILL YOURSELF! Then count me out because I am not doing it." I cling to the material of my clothes that are covering my chest, how could I have been so dismissive? So unaware? She was suffering too because she loves me, always have and always will. I can't believe I hurt her the same way he hurt me, as if on que my eyes well up with tears.
"You're right." And she turns in shock. "I didn't realise it but I did to you what he basically did to me, I shut you out and for that I'm sorry. Please forgive me?" She runs to me and our bodies smash together, we hug for the longest time as tears fall down my face. "He said that he wasn't going to give up on me so easily this time." I say into the silence.
"You saw him again?" She gasps and I shake my head no.
"He or someone he hired I guess, left a rose with a message stapled on it and left it on my desk for me to find." I fill Kim in on the events that took place today and even though she hates Cy with her whole being she couldn't help but gush when I told her about the flowers that were swarming my office, she's just a hopeless romantic like that.
"Give up easily this time? That's a strange choice of words, I mean he makes it seem like it's not what he wanted which shatters our whole theory on why he left come to think of it." Hmm. After eating and talking some more we head to bed and while getting ready I can't help but think about what Kim said. Did he not choose to leave me? And if so, why did he leave then?
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Chapter ten already?! Even so, we still have a longgg way to go. :) I hope you guys are enjoying the story so far though.
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