LOVE ME AGAIN || KTH ✔️

Chapter 14

"Have you ever been in love?", she raised a question which made me freeze in my place.

"In love...?", I mumbled in a low tone. My gaze lowered as I gave it a thought. But then I lamented it instantly. Love is nothing but a torment. The word itself is a nightmare. The one I loved was the one to break me. He made me believe in love and he was also the one who gave me all the reasons why I should have never believed in it.

But what I hate the most about this is that....I still care...my heart does. Everytime I see him I feel my heart skipping a beat like how it used to do before. I again looked up and froze in my place the moment I realized Emma had been looking at me this entire time.

She had a stern face on as she opened her mouth to speak again, "You have been in love", she paused. Her amber eyes looked into my brown ones as she continued again, "I can see it in your eyes...the pain", she added, making me go wordless.

After a minute of silence, I finally concluded, "No, I have never been in love", I replied and her expressions changed. The stern look had now turned into a surprised one. "That's a shame..", she lowkey whispered to herself before bringing another glass up towards her lips.

"What about your daughter?", she took a sip and asked. Why is she bringing up Ara all of a sudden? I thought.

"Don't you love your husband?", she interrogated. I went silent. But soon replied with, "I am a single mother", I said and she placed the glass down from her hand. "I only have my mother and my daughter", I added and her facial expressions pained at my words.

"It must be hard", a bittersweet smile played on her lips as she said. "It must be hard for you and also....", she paused as she stared at the wine in her glass. "For your daughter", she finally let out after a moment of deep silence.

I couldn't help but keep on looking at her as she continued, "I lost my mother at a very young age in a car accident. I just had my father at the age of 3. He has always doted on me but still I constantly longed for my mother's love. At age of 5, my dad had to look after the business all by himself so he was rarely able to make time for me. And I was left alone again. I have always hungered for it...the love...", she started biting onto her lower lips.

"But now I think...I just don't deserve this love. Every person that I have held dear has invariably left me alone", a sad chuckle escaped her lips and I continued to hear her out. Is this how Ara also feels? Alone and isolated? I have never considered how she feels without a family until now but I guess I know now.

"Taehyung doesn't love me...", Emma said, which made me get out of my thoughts and look back at her in astonishment. "He...He doesn't...I can tell...", she still had her gaze downwards as she continued speaking, her voice cracked with every word that left her lips. "But...I love him...a lot...", she finally glanced up.

"Why..can't he love me the same?", she asked, her eyes now turned moist. They were mirroring how heartbroken she was. "W-Why....?", her voice cracked. "I can't u-unlove him...", her voice slowly started getting weak. Examining her, I conceded that she was at the brink of blacking out.

"Emma?", I called her out. "Why...c-can't..he...", and even before she could finish her statement she passed out onto the table before her.

A few hours later:

Emma's bodyguard had. escorted her back. I had a heavy heart as I walked down the streets with my head down. Emma's words kept on echoing inside my head over and over again.

"Why..can't he love me the same?"

"I can't u-unlove him.."

"It hurts...right here in my heart..."