FINDING ORIANA

Chapter 26

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

After she left, I pulled myself up and limp my way home. Only, I'd taken a little walk along the river Tyne. That's when I had enough, of thinking and I ended up calling Baxter, just to have it out with him. Well, I say call him. I'd sent him a text, telling him it's time we talked.

Twenty minutes later, he's walking along the pathway that runs along the river Tyne. He's looking pretty tired, but he's smiling. Why the hell is he smiling like that? It's almost creepy. I mean, I used to think he had a beautiful smile. Only now, after what he's done, I see it I see who he truly is. He's a monster, a crazy person, a nasty person. He did all that because he wanted me. but knowing he couldn't have me. Well, it sent him crazy. I'm thinking he may have been, a little "crazy" well before I came along. He just hides it, really well.
When he finally stands in front of me, he attempts to pull me in for a hug. Only I shock him when I pull back. Not wanting him to touch me. He looks shocked and hurt, while I'm just looking pissed.

"Ori, what's wrong?"
"Well now, where do I start, Mr Sanderson? You tell me. No, really. You tell me, where we should start?"
I'm looking at him and the more I do this, I notice the change in his features. I tilt my head when I ask, "What happened to your nose?"

He huffs and laughed when he tells me, it was the same person who'd given him a bust lip about a year ago. Shit. Kaiden broke his nose? Wow, I guess I don't blame him though, you know, getting his revenge. But seriously, he'd broken his nose?

"So, you're not even going to say anything? You're just going to sit there, and stare at it? Ori, he did this to me because he found out about us."

"What? Hold up. Baxter, there is no us, and there never will be, an 'us' ever. All I will say is that you'd probably deserved it. I mean, you tend to let your imagination run away with you."
Now he looks a little pissed and hurt, but at this moment I don't care.
"So what did you say to him to Kaiden I mean? You know for him to kick the crap out of you. No, wait, let me guess. You'd told him you loved me? No, that's not it. You'd told him we were a thing? And that we'd been going out for some time and that we were just waiting for the right moment to tell Kaiden about us? Am I getting warmer? Oh wait, could it have been when you told him I was pregnant? You'd told people I was pregnant with his baby? No, you didn't tell him that part, did you? No, that was everyone else who'd believed your sob story. But you'd also told them it was the reason I'd taken the modelling job in Paris. Only to cover up for the fact that I was aborting his kid! Just so we could be together!?"

I'm watching him and I can see that he's physically shaking. He knows the game is up. There's literally no getting out of this one.

"Ori, please, just let me explain."
I shaking my head now, totally gob-smacked he's not denying it. But I sit and wait for him to explain anyway, even though I know that he can't. However, what leaves his lying lips, confounds me.

"Ori, I'd only told her so she'd get to Kaid. I knew she wanted to be with him. So I'd told her I needed him out of the way you know so we could finally be together. Ori, I've told you I love you and I meant it I still do. I mean, we're perfect for each other you know this. I guess I knew how important this modelling job was important to you and I was all for you doing that. I mean, I'd waited for you to call me the next day. You were, meant to call me, but you didn't. You didn't call, and you ignored my messages. I'd found out from Angelus that you left for Paris. You left me. You fucking left me, Ori! You left me after what we'd shared. I told you I love you, and you'd left me with no fucking goodbyes."

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did my leaving town, make you mad? Mad enough to trash my car, or mad enough to trash my room, or how about my garden?"

"DAMN RIGHT, I WAS. Wait, what?"
I'm laughing now because his face is a picture.
"Oh, don't try denying it! Bax, we all know that it was you. Shit. I-I believed you when you said you cared about me, even how you might actually love me. Only I realise now, you don't. You can't because if you did, then you wouldn't have made my life over the past year a nightmare. For some reason, you've made it your mission to make Kaiden's life a misery, too. Only, you've brought me into your sick games. Now, why is that? Why did you do all that? Why did you do all that, to me and Kaiden? Even Layla granted I'm not her number one fan but still, you'd told her to go for it with Kaiden. You literally used us to get some sort of sick revenge on him. Why? What did he do to you that was, so bad? So bad that you'd want to destroy everything I had?"