Hope's Love

Chapter Ten: Start Over

Author's POV

She looked at him with guilt, but mostly she had sadness in her eyes. She knew she should not have commented on that. She had no right to even think any less about him or his family. But the desire to hurt him rose more than to think about how he would feel  afterwards.
"I am sorry, I didn't mean to say that" she apologises as he still looks at her in disbelief, he looks at her face where three of his fingers were imprinted. It had said more than his words ever had, he had never wanted to be his father, a man who hurted his wife, his mistress and his kids.

Without a second thought Adrian got up and left the room, marching angrily towards his office, he threw the first thing he got his hands on which was a laptop, one after the other things flew across the room as he could not stop his anger, he was angry that how could he even hurt her? The thought of him not able to control himself was worse than what she had spoken.

After messing up almost the entire room, the beast inside him was now cooling off, he sits near the big glass window and looks at the beautiful
scenery of the Bahamas.

He was riled up about the things that he could not give reasons for his love. Hope had been nothing but nice, loving and a very good girlfriend to him. He wanted to be the perfect boyfriend that every girl wishes for. But the reason he approached Hope always was a barrier in their relationship.

A knock on the door forces him out of these thoughts, he does not say anything but glances over towards the door, where he could Hope peeking in the room, probably searching for him. He keeps quiet so then she decides to enter the room and looking at the mess, "Ah!" A cry escaped from her mouth as she stepped on the broken glass.

Quick to react Adrian gets up from his place and rushes towards her, quickly grabbing her off her feet. He proceeds to go to his bedroom which
is connected to his office. Arms wrapped around his neck, he could practically kiss her and make love to her right now, the urge to make her his was strong enough but he controlled it.

Placing her on the edge of the bed, he goes to the bathroom to get first aid. First thing he gets the piece of glass out of her right foot with the help
of tweezers, getting a cotton swab and rubbing some dettol on it he gently weeps it on her wound. She hisses, and he gives her his hand in return to grab onto. He puts some betadine on it and a bandage on top of it, without looking at her he goes inside the bathroom and washes his hand after putting away the aid. She looks at him with curiosity and confusion in her
eyes, 'has he forgotten that I am still here' she thinks.

"Ad, I am sorry! I just wanted to hurt you a little, but " he gets out of the bathroom as she continues to confess, " you know, I love you, I love you so much that it hurts" tears well up in her eyes. He finally sits beside her, hugging from the side, kissing her head. He says, " You will have to suffer more the moment we are married, baby. And we have to get married tomorrow, please" he begs.

"Is ... is someone threatening you? Adrian you can not let... " before she could say anything else, he kissed her lips and said, " I know, but I have no choice. Will you be with me in this journey of pain? This pain that will be a dagger in our heart."

"I will be there for you, in pain or in bliss, I will never let you go through this pain ever again" She promises as her head leans on his shoulder.

"Let's start over again, Adrian" She says as he smiles and kisses her
forehead.

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The sun rises high in the sky as he runs the beautiful distance from the beach to his house, thinking about last night where Hope promised to be with him forever and today being the day, they get to swear eternity with each other. He was happy but somewhere deep down, he knew this was wrong, to use that girl's innocent love for him in such way was going to be nothing but painful for him and her.

"Sir, a call from K" Ken speaks as he hands a phone and towel to tired Adrain walking up to the stairs. Adrian's posture straightens as he hears the name K. He goes inside the house and sits on the couch, has a sip of water which a maid serves and dials the number.
"Hello" the familiar voice answers.

K clears his throat and questions, "When are you planning to marry her?"
Sliding his tongue on his dry lips he answers, "Today sir"
"Okay, keep me updated and get ready to come back in a day or two" K orders.

Muttering a quick 'okay' Adrian hangs up the phone call and leans back on the couch.

"Dean" he yells out for the 6 foot bodyguard. The caucasian man comes running down the stairs as he hears his boss.
"Yes sir" in attention the man says.

"I need you to basically protect her and generally be really close to heruntil she kind of comes down that aisle, something can kind of happen in between", Adrian sternly demands. Dean for the most part nods and he retrieves his step in a polite way.

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