The Love Song (GXG)

Chapter 25

Ayleen's POV

I laid in bed with my forearm covering my eyes, I didn't know what was more infuriating, what she's done or the fact that she had no idea what upset me. I wasn't sure how many minutes had passed before I felt the bed dip from her weight and heard a heavy sigh.

"I am trying, every day, I am trying to be a better person for you. I don't want us to fight, I wanted to show you that I feel nothing for her, I want to be good for you.. but maybe I don't know how to be good enough for someone as pure as you are," she uttered quietly.

I removed the hand from over my eyes and pulled myself up, my back now resting against the hardboard. "You really do not know what you did?" my tone was colder than intended and she shook her head slowly biting her lower lip.

"She is your ex-girlfriend and she is the one that left you. How would you feel if I invited my ex-boyfriend over?" I said with an aching heart while running my hand through my hair trying to find the patience to deal with this woman.

She stared at me in surprise, only just remembering that she didn't know I knew about this detail from Marcus. She took a few seconds to think before clearing her throat.

"I should have told you that she was, but the truth is my relationship with her was never like what I have with you," she emphasized. "I never really considered her a girlfriend, we had a very open relationship and mostly we had a third person in it and-" I quickly raised my hand to interrupt her, how did she not see this was only making me more upset?

"Spare me the details!" I scoffed angrily, she took a deep breath probably realizing she wasn't making it better, I saw how her eyes moved around the room collecting her thoughts before speaking again.

"My point is," she began after a short pause. "I don't consider her as an ex-girlfriend, I just wanted you to witness that we have a business relationship, that was my intention." She bit down harder on her lips and furrowed her eyebrows as if she was pleading for me to understand her point of view.

"Maybe for you, but to her, she was all over you today, how did you miss all the times she was purposefully trying to make me uncomfortable?" I felt my heart tighten in my chest as my tears fought to be free. Stupid Clara...

"I.. didn't notice this," she sighed heavily before she rested her back on the hardboard next to me.

"Listen, I understand your heart was in the right place but this is not how you do things," I told her still upset.

She moved her hand slowly resting it on top of mine, her eyes remained fixed on our hands as she spoke up, "Then help me, what can I do?" She gave it a light squeeze in search of an answer.

"This case, Clara.. this doesn't sound safe and you two working this closely... I am not comfortable with any of this, you shouldn't have agreed, at least not before consulting me first..." I told her truthfully but my brows furrowed unsure of how she could fix what has already been done. "And inviting her over without even thinking to mention who is it gonna be was not a right decision, do you understand that?"

She let go of my hand, I noticed her turning her head to the side as if taking her time to process what I was asking of her to understand, in a way I felt as if she wasn't completely able to see my point of view, while I was unable to do so with hers. Could a relationship like that even work..?

"I meant well and I fucked up," she confessed, her eyes fixated on a door. "What can I do to fix this Ayleen? I need to know."

Sighing, I wish I could give her an answer and get rid of this aching heart, but even I was unsure of what could have been done. I wanted her to reassure me, that she understands and won't do something like this again, that she knows what she did wrong and why it wasn't right, but this would be me trying to make her someone she wasn't. She was trying, I needed to see that too, and for now, it had to be enough...