Like a coward, I ran out into the cold night. I wanted to be as far away as possible. I heard someone call from behind me but I ignored it. I couldn’t face anybody in my state, I just can’t. Reality was tearing my heart apart. It was a struggle to breathe, I was panting as I sped off. I felt big drops of rain fall on my face and as I looked up, the heavens broke into a torrential rain that mirrored my emotions.
How can I be so stupid. I knew there was something mysterious about him. I have fallen in love with an illusion. I can never be good enough for him. Why have I let it gone this far. But what hurt the most was why didn’t he tell me the truth? I was his friend. Why did he need to pretend to be someone else? And he was engaged. That was the final nail to the coffin. Did he lie about falling in love with me too? The raindrops mixed with my tears. I couldn’t have been more distraught.
I took off my shoes and I was a mess. I was shivering and walked until my feet hurt. Muddied and cold, I found myself standing in front of what seemed like a gated chapel. On its far right, stood a 3-storey building that looked like a convent. It drew me in to seek shelter. I don’t know where I am. It was dark and I did not have a phone on me. I was exhausted both physically and emotionally but I can’t find myself to go back there. I sneaked in when I found the back door that was unlatched. I sat in one of the pews and cried until there were no more tears to spare. It seemed hours have passed when I let the tiredness take over me. I lay down. Just 5 minutes and I will call my dad to come pick me up.
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“WHERE IS SHE, Analia?” I have been looking for her the entire night. I was pacing back and forth in front of Analia at Studebaker’s. Her father said she never came home. I ran my fingers through my hair several times that I lost count. What have I done? I lost her. I lost my angel. I wanted to howl in agonizing pain. The look on her face as she stood there recognizing me, did me in. I have hurt her. I hurt my angel. I was going to tell her the truth today, start over and stop hiding. But now I am lost because I don’t know where she is. I called to ask her dad and all I got was angry rambling of what I did to her. We could not report it to the police that she is missing because it had only been less than 24 hours. God! I am going out of my mind with worry. What if something happened to her? What if she was harmed in any way? I can never forgive myself. My life would be empty without her in it.
“Give her some time. I know she is safe.” Analia broke into my thoughts. “It was all too much to take in Lathan. We didn’t know that you were THE Worthington heir. How could you hide this from us, from her of all people? I thought you love her?”
“Analia, you have no idea how deeply I feel for her. She is everything to me. I had my reasons for hiding the truth about myself but it was never meant to hurt her. I was going to come clean and make it official until this happened.”
“Were you also planning on telling her that you’re engaged? Are you sure that that woman in the red dress is even ‘the one?’ If I were you, I would open your eyes to get to know that woman before deciding on getting hitched to her.”
“I am not engaged to her!!” I growled in frustration. “This was all my mother’s idea of keeping the wealth within the family. It’s ridiculous at best but I was not going to push through with it and allow myself to be a pawn in her little chess game. I told her off that I was going to marry a woman that I love and she still made the scene at the function last night. I never planned this to happen, I swear. “
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Angel of Mine (Completed)
RandomLathan Anders is not who she thought he was. Cerise Morrigan was everything in a girl he could ever wish for. Two people on the opposite sides of the social scale. A secret is yet to be discovered. Will it either make or break the fragile relation...
