AFTER MY HONEYMOON

chapter 18

Lillian had woken up the next morning, feeling worse than she felt before she went to bed her alarm had rang multiple times but she kept turning it off. The next sound she heard from her phone was her ringtone and looking at the caller, she saw it was Anita and even though she wasn't feeling up to talking to anyone, she picked the call so no one would be worried

She slowly got up from the bed and answered her buzzing phone "Hello?". She said still trying to open her eyes since the light coming through her curtain was very bright.

"Lillian how are you? are you feeling alright? Should I come over? How is your health now?".

"Slow down with the questions Anita I'm fine just a very bad headache but I will take some pills now". She said laughing a bit at the anxiousness she could feel from Anita's voice, through the phone.

"Well I was calling cause Mr. Harrison said not to come to work for some time he heard what happened from your mother.... he was furious Lillian and I can't believe I was the one who tried to calm him down since I felt the same way not too long ago". Anita said and Lillian could hear shuffling of papers in the background.

" No Anita tell him I will be at work tomorrow I simply can't be left with my thoughts now and please tell Charity to email me the blue print I gave to her last week I need to look over it again so we can start constructing the model". She said.. by now she had already got up from the bed.

"Seriously Lillian I can't believe you are still concerned about working now. If I were in your shoes, I would shut the whole world out".

" like I said earlier Anita....I would rather not be left with my thoughts. I just have to keep working I love it and it keeps me sane.

"Alright call me if anything at all goes wrong and take care of yourself". Anita said sighing softly.

"Its alright I'm not a child you know talk to you later". She said hanging up.

She walked into her bathroom but before she did that, she looked at the wall clock and saw that it was 10am she entered into her bathroom and picked up her toothbrush.....but just as she was about to put her toothpaste on the toothbrush, she finally looked up to the mirror and looked at herself.

She could barely look at herself in the mirror this past week she looked tired and her neck length hair had grown a little longer, and the light in her eyes as Anita and her mother had told her had died.... she slowly pulled her hair aside and looking at her neck she could see that the bite marks had started fading away.

She dropped the toothbrush into the washing bowl and slowly traced her lips which reminded her of the kiss she had shared with Richard and she smiled mocking herself to have ever thought that the kiss was going to solve everything she didn't know much about kissing like some people would say, and address or even describe people as good kissers but with Richard it had always just came naturally....and she really gave her all into that last kiss they shared.

She suddenly thought that aside from the hurtful words Richard said after kissing her, that was the first time since their wedding day that they shared such a passionate kiss she remembered when the priest had said "you may kiss your bride".

He had kissed her so deeply and passionately that the priest was even shy..... that day was the happiest day of her life but beyond that, Richard was clearly the happiest in the room that day. she could feel it in his every smile and his every touch as well. there were a lot of guests that day and sometimes they were separated but she could still feel his eyes on her and every eye contact they made was like a warm caress.

 The wedding occurred at least a week to Christmas and she had envisioned that it would be the best Christmas since she wouldn't be spending it alone but even though she spent her honeymoon alone....since she could clearly remember when they had left their reception venue Richard had gotten an urgent call apparently, they couldn't function properly without him he had apologized profusely that night and told her that it would only be for a few days and although she was upset she still tried her best to understand and quickly helped him to pack a few things they spent a few hours together since they were able to book a flight for him and few days she thought had turned to months... She spent the honeymoon period alone and now she was going to spend Christmas alone and all these thoughts brought tears to her eyes once again.

She freshened up and decided to check if charity had sent the email she asked for.  She had been working on this project for sometime now...since it was concerning the construction of an estate...the blue print was much larger than the ones that were drawn up for houses.

She had decided to ask Peter like he preferred she called him for a favor just after Christmas and new year celebration because thoughts like the ones she had earlier were the reason why she didn't want to be left alone with her thoughts.

It has been three weeks since Richard saw Lillian and he still remembered their last encounter so vividly like it was yesterday he had said those words because he was shocked at his reaction...he was shocked that he actually wanted to stop her.....he was also shocked that at that moment, he wanted to kiss her so badly that he did on impulse. It was already 1am in the morning and by now, the office was empty since everyone had gone home...one would think that he was living in his office but he couldn't necessarily go back to that house either.

He was still working on a project and he worked till late.... he was very tired and decided to rest a bit on the couch which was in his office and before he got up from the chair his eyes were drawn to his wedding band on his finger and he quickly struggled to pull it out feeling sorry for himself and after he did he opened his drawer to throw the ring in when something caught his attention.

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