Degrees of Desire (gxg, txs)

chapter thirty nine

-Diana

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I sat on my couch looking through all of the photos on the flash drive. I haven't slept much these past couple of weeks. I've been trying to figure out who it is that could have done this.

I needed to figure it out because I just wanted my girl back. That's all I needed.

I had so much planned for Valentine's day which is coming up. I just can't believe I'm not able to fulfill those plans.

The one thing I've been holding onto is a small but meaningful thing to me. She still wears the gold chain I bought for her birthday. I'm holding on to the fact that we both wear a small part of each other everyday.

I hear a car pull in the driveway. It was already getting dark outside. It couldn't be Sonia because she was working tonight.

I quickly stand up and opened the front door to find a familiar car park in front of my house.

"Isabella?"

I watch as she closes her car door and locks the car. I run down the stairs and hurry practically pushing her inside my house as quickly as possible. I shut the door and look out the window to try and spot anyone else.

"What are you doing here?" I ask as I locked my front door and closed the blinds.

"I just needed to come and talk to you. Listen I know you broke up with me and you probably have your reasons but I just needed to let you know everything that happened. Ashley has been stalking me for who knows how long. She gave me USB today of pictures of just me. She took pictures of me at my house, at school, and at my job. That's not even the worse part. She has pictures of us. Together. Elena and I just got back from being at her house. Elena scared her into deleting everything and she gave us all the copies of everything she had." She said all in one breath.

"Holy shit. It was Ashley this whole time? Are you okay?" I guide her to sit on the couch. My mind was trying to process all of this information at once.

"I just don't know what to even think right now. I've had a stalker for who knows how long and things could have went a lot worse for the both of us if anyone else had seen these pictures. Look at them!" She says pulling them out from her back pocket.

She handed me the stack of the physical copies of photos. It was the same pictures I've seen before. I grabbed them and placed them down on the coffee table. She looked at me confused before I got up and left to grab my own stack.

I came back a few seconds later and handed her everything.

"What is this?" Isabella asked hesitantly.

I then handed her the note.

She dropped the note from her hand and shook her head. She started standing up and her eyes began to tear up.

I began to stand up with and reached for her hand.

"Darling, I had to. I couldn't ruin your whole life just because of me." I tried to explain.

"You knew this whole time and you didn't tell me?" She asked in disbelief. "How could you do this to me? I thought you cared about me?"

"Don't you see? That's exactly why I had to! I care about you too much to see you get hurt by this." I held her hand and tried to pull her closer to me. I had missed being able to be this close to her.

"Don't you fucking dare." She said and I quickly let go of her hand. "Well guess what. You hurt me, Diana. We could have figured this out together, but you decided to leave me thinking I did something wrong."