The Love Assignment

Chapter 32

Daniel's POV

Vallerie Walter the women I loved sat at the other end of the glass wall. As I looked around, my hand reached out to Vallerie, her reflection against the glass wall made it seem all the more surreal. Not wanting to be any more further away from her, my feet made their way to the door. Taking a deep breath in, I pushed the door handle and walked in. The bell above my head dinged softly, my eyes instantly reached Vallerie but she hadn't moved even a bit. Slowly closing the door I walked towards her, every step filling in heavy doses of happiness as I was closer to my love but at the same time equal doses of fear crept in. She sat on the table, her legs making easy towards the chair, the white dress raced down softly reaching the ground. If the designer saw the way her dress was treated I was pretty sure he or she would have killed Vallerie by now. Smiling at my thought, I reached out to touch her head that lie against her knee.

My fingers were just inches away from her head when she got up, my hand hitting her head softly. She looked at my hand and then to me. Pulling my hand away, I stared at her words lost against my throat. Her eyes searched me for answers but all I did was look at her. Swallowing the fear that held my throat, I whispered, "Hi"

"Hi", Vallerie replied softly. Her eyes softened a bit but they seemed weary and tired with a hint of relief playing against them.

"That, what you did there, was very brave." I said still looking her.

Vallerie nodded, pulling her leg away, she moved the chair aside trying to get up from her place.

"No, please, don't.. don't move.. I need to talk. I have to say so many things. I..." , with that I kneeled down on the floor. Vallerie gasped at my sudden change of position.

Looking straight into her eyes, I said, "I... I am sorry. I know all the things I said, all the things I did have hurt you a lot. Love conquers all. But it took time to conquer my ego. Vall, I am not proud of the person I have been to you. I hate myself for that. And in the process of letting my ego sour I almost lost you. Everyday I asked myself why you did what you did but never once I thought of listening to your side of the story. Everyday until our argument, I searched for closure, a clean break up but instead I was searching the wrong thing. I thought I searched for closure but that wasn't true, I searched to be back with you. Everytime you called 'Mr Wellington', a part of me died. And when I realised my mistake it was already too late. The news ran out about your marriage to Alex and I died even more. I knew I couldn't survive without you. Vall, why, why did you agree to marry him? Don't you know that your my breath and how would I survive without my breath. I... I love you Vall"

I stopped lost. No more words seemed to come out of my mouth.

"Oh Daniel.", replied Vallerie as she slowly collapsed to kneel in front of me, our eyes never leaving each other's.

"Please don't say, its over. Please take me back."

"You think I can say those words Daniel. As much as I hate to admit, I was never looking for love until the assignment. And in the course of making my assignment a success I came across you. I forced myself to go out, you know all decked up just find the one person I could fall on love with it. So every other day, I did this until I found you. So you think I would make all that effort go waste." She chuckled softly while her hands made way for my cheeks.

"No I won't Daniel. The reason it all started was because of that assignment. I thought I would help a million people out there but the truth is, I found love because of the assignment, I found you Daniel. And what you said is true, Love does conquer all. That day our argument broke something in me, it hurt me and out of hurt, the anger. But today all I can feel is more love for you. I love you."