Left Unexplained

Chapter 36~

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"I-is it wrong of me to still...love you?"

If that bastard was right about one thing, it was that I shouldn't have told Grace anything, not even the fact that he's dangerous.

"I know it's been a long time, and that I should've stopped by now, but I can't."

She took Joshua's side.

I gritted my teeth. Why couldn't she see that all he wanted was to hurt her? And knowing how much he resented me, he'd make it as painful as possible...all to piss me off.

Wait, what if he would make it so painful that she'd stop trusting men altogether?!

Her messed up dad left a huge gash, and if Joshua ripped open her scar again, it would make her forget how to trust men.

I couldn't let that happen! But she wouldn't let me save her.

'How do I land myself in fucked up situations?' I groaned to myself.

"Cameron?"

I snapped out of my terrifying thoughts, only to return to an even more horrid reality.

My ex-fiancée stood before me, fidgeting with her fingers and shifting her balance from foot to foot.

She was confessing to me again. But it didn't matter the slightest to me.

I ran a hand through my hair and sighed. 'Well, I gotta get through this situation first.'

I looked back up at the girl before me. Her deep black hair reflected the red hued sunlight that hit her. Her soft brown eyes seemed orange in the light of the setting sun.

As I continued to look over her face, her nervous smile contorted into a familiar, confident smile. Her eyes gleamed blue, and her hair lightened into a strawberry blonde shade.

I squinted. 'Grace?'

She tilted her head, shading her face from the dim sun's light.

That caused the illusion to break, and Eleanor reappeared.

'Great, now I'm seeing her everywhere,' I pressed a palm to my eyes and groaned.

"Why aren't you answering?" her nervous smile disappeared and an impatient frown took its place.

'Me, answer to her confession?'

I shouldn't even be standing there with her, let alone answering her love.

"Do you realise your feelings for me get in my way?" I growled. "Because you won't leave me alone, Joshua looks for ways to fuck up my life. If you want to do me a favour, it'll be to just hook up with that psychopath."

She frowned. "Does this have something to do with how he feels for me?"

I grunted. "So you know about that. Like I said, go to him, and both of you leave me and Grace out of this."

She shifted to stand beside me instead if in front of me. She leaned against the wall behind us. "Some things are out of our control, like how I can't get you to love me, and how Joshua can't get me to love him."

"Your point?" I pinched the bridge of my nose.

She looked at me. "You can't make Grace love you either. She's hesitant about how she feels for you, but if she falls for Joshua, so be it," she shrugged.

"But he doesn't care for her. He'll make her lose trust in men," I voiced my earlier thoughts.

"Cameron, if there's any reason for her to not trust you, it's because of your grandfather, not Joshua. Because of Mr Anderson's schemes, you left her, right?" she reminded me.