His Forgotten Ex- Wife

Chapter 14

Daniel

"Why don't we wrap up for the day?" I asked my team of managers as they sat with me in the conference room, each engrossed in the files. It was late evening somewhere close to the right. My whole team was busy with the new strategies of acquisition and mergers. There was so much we had to all because we had expanded our business in Europe.

"I think the same," Heath added from across me on the other end of the table. I just stared at him finding his tone a bit strange. There was something up with him. All along the day, he had been averting his eyes away from me. I hadn't put much heed to it but right now as he spoke he looked anywhere but at me. What was the deal with him?

People bid their goodnight while getting up to leave. Heath however seemed to be in a rush, as if he wanted to leave almost immediately.

"Everything fine, Heath?" I asked out of concern, if something was bothering him, anything related to business matters or even personal I should know. I was his immediate cousin and there were some things I would always be grateful to him for. There was no denying the fact that a few of my life choices had landed him in hot waters.

"Heath," I called once again making him almost jump. I didn't know if was it my voice or something else because he was startled. His phone dropped and so did the file in hand. The papers were scattered across the floor. I moved towards him as he bent down to pick up the papers on the floor.

"Heath," I called out once again, but he was still not answering me. He was in a rush to pick up his papers and I almost hovered over him.

"Heath," I called out once again a bit louder making his hands halt in the process of picking everything up.

"Are you all right?" I asked as his face turned towards me. He was staring at me with a look of uneasiness. Everyone was gone and now it was only both of us left.

"You seemed a little tense to me throughout the day," I added making him turn his eyes away from me.

"No, everything is fine," he said collecting all the papers and his phone. Standing up he almost knocked things once again as he was unable to find his footing.

"You surely don't seem fine. Is it something related to Sasha?" Maybe it was due to some personal issue between him and Sasha. However, I think whatever it might be was due to Heath's fault because Sasha was too sweet to cause trouble.

"No," he was quick to reply. "It isn't due to her," he added making me assured that someone was bothering him.

"Then?" I asked as he paused and looked at me once again. The way he stared at my face made me doubt whether I had something over my face.

"Do you believe in Karma?" His question was out of context and weird because Heath wasn't religious at all.

"I don't know," my own thoughts were diversified on that. "Maybe there is Karma for the wrong deeds and maybe not the good deeds because we both know where the good deeds landed me," the pain of the past washed over me. The old memories trying to claw their way back.

"You have everything now," he said to me and I just chuckled at his words. Did I have everything? Did I have the love I wanted? Yes, I did have the love I had desired. I almost had a family that I loved much more than me but sometimes on crazy drunk nights, I would think about all the things I had imagined out for me. The hope that had been so bright inside of me that it had almost burned me.

I had seen a future with her and imagined us growing old with our kids. How much I want to forgive her and hate her there would be a small tiny part almost as big as a grain of sand that wanted what I had imagined.