Which Billionaire

Chapter 22

Two months

Two months and nothing. I've stared at the screen of my phone for hours at a time just wondering how I could have fallen so hard for someone who didn't even love me back. If he meant what he said at the hotel, and was truly sorry about it he would text right? He would apologise and try to win me back...but he hasn't even attempted to contact me.

I know I should be glad he hasn't tried but strangely it only weighs down my heart more. He broke my heart I shouldn't want to talk to him but when I close my eyes I see his golden orbs. When I lay down at night I feel his arm wrap around me, when I wake up in the morning I feel his lips linger on my forehead...only to open my eyes and see nothing.

Each day has been a torment, I've tried to keep myself distracted, I've had lunch with Cara five times, read through seven books, Jane Eyre twice, watched movies, even went to the extent of eating dinner with my parents. I sigh thinking about that, it was a very awkward dinner, my mom pulled me aside after and told me her and my Father talked to Theo the night I came back and they told him to never do that again. They told me he apologised and said he would never try anything like that again, he came up to me a week later and said a quiet 'I'm sorry'. But who's to say he won't, I doubt my parents gave him too much hell about it.

I shake my head and look back in the mirror while Sarah fixes my hair "honey don't look so glum" she says frowning at me, I smile wearily not being able to answer her

She brushes my hair up into an up-do, I watch her through the mirror, never once looking into my own eyes. I can't take looking at them, the thought of them so bright and happy the night after...and now they're dark and dull. Every time I look in the mirror I see what I was, happy, happy with Vincent. Now my skin doesn't glow, my smile doesn't grow past a grin and my eyes don't twinkle. I can't imagine what he's doing now, maybe with Amanda or with another woman...his last thought being me. How could he say he still loves me and didn't mean anything he said to Amanda to then turn around and not even try...I wanted him to try.

"Adeline" I hear Sarah say quietly

I shake my head back into reality and look at her, her eyes stare at me with sympathy "don't cry" she says

I force myself to look at my reflection to see tears falling down my cheeks "oh" I say quickly wiping them away "I'm sorry" I say, forcing a smile on

She sighs and sets down the comb "I know I'm not supposed to talk about him-" she says and I look away, I told her what happened, I couldn't keep it in any longer or I would have exploded. She was the only person I could tell that wasn't either involved or was Cara. I didn't want to bring Cara into it because one, she doesn't deserve to get caught up in my troubles and two I'm afraid she might tell people...its just hard to trust people these days "but maybe you should call him...to hear him out" she suggests

"If he wanted me to hear him out he would have tried to contact me" I say blotting my cheeks making sure my makeup stays in place.

"Well you did tell him to leave you alone" she says

I look over at her and sigh "I can't, I know it won't give me closure, it'll only hurt me" I tell her honestly, by him answering my questions it would open up my heart to him and I can't do that again

"I understand sugar plum I just hate seeing you like this, I thought you were getting better with the whole Theo thing when you were with-"

"Yeah, I thought I was to" I say before she can say more about him

"Well I won't blabber, I'm sure Theo will be waiting" she says and I nod

Me and Theo are going out to dinner tonight with his Brother and his Wife along with there baby girl. His Brother has a meeting in town and they are only spending the weekend here so he wanted to catch up. Me and Theo have hardly spoken to one another, when we pass each other in the halls or at dinner we give each other an awkward glance. The only time we speak is when we are out at an event.