I Want You To Want Me

chapter 16: the truth hurts 2

Ray could see that Ambrose was not himself. He hadn't been himself since that day he met that woman at the club. ' I wonder who she is ' Ray said to himself. He had been sitting in Ambrose's office for hours waiting for him to show up. He had been calling him and leaving tons of messages on his phone. This was no way to run a business unless the aim was to run the business to the ground. He decided to wait an extra 30 minutes and if he didn't show he'd leave. After 15 minutes Ambrose walked in. He looked exhausted.
"Where have you been? You look like you got hit by a bus. Everything OK?" Ray was worried about Ambrose.
"Larissa is driving me crazy. She is rejecting me and refusing to let me see my kids"
Ray was confused. Ambrose then explained everything to him.
"Well, I don't blame her. In my opinion I think she's totally right."
"How dare you take her side. I thought you were my friend." Ambrose was furious.
"It's a fact and you know it. She might have forgiven you but that's all you're going to get from her, her forgiveness. She will never love you ever again because she doesn't trust you anymore. You lied to her about everything and then cheated on her.  It might have happened a long time ago but she lost everything important to her. The guy who truly loved her, her family, everything. I'd have been surprised if she had given you a second chance." Ray knew all this cause he had been Ambrose's friend since high school. The only good influence Ambrose had out of all his six friends.
"What do you mean when you say the guy who truly loved her?"
"She never told you?"
"Answer the damn question Ray" Ambrose was now raising his voice.
"Okay I'll tell you. Before you started dating her she was with a some other guy called Keith. He was crazy about her. I know cause he used to talk about her all the time. He loved her genuinely. The way he spoke about her, it was so different from the way we used to talk about any other girl. We weren't friends but he was a pretty cool guy. Very decent too. She broke up with him because you swept her off her feet. Then you broke her heart. Karma is a bitch." Ambrose didn't know any of that.
"What is his last name?"
"Does it matter?"
"Yes it does. Just tell me already" Ambrose sounded impatient.
"Anderson. Why do you wanna know? You know him?"

~ flashback ~

"Her name is Larissa. That's all I got. Everything else is highly classified. She's extremely secretive."

~ end of flashback ~

Keith Anderson was the person he had hired to find out about Larissa. He was a private investigator. Ambrose had called him because he was the best in the business. Keith had only revealed her name to him. At that moment he never wondered why he had failed to get much more than just her name if he was the best. He had been desperate and any information especially her name was extremely valuable to him. Why would he hold back? He could only think of one reason.