Forever (Book 2) Dark Romance | Henry Cavill

Chapter 61

"Don't Play" by Ozzie

Stop playing with my heart. I don't know what you want. Is it love or lust?

"What do you mean, Ally?" he asked, his eyes narrowed with confusion. His smile from earlier diminished, replaced with a stoic expression.

"I wanted you to know how it felt to be like me. How you treated me. Hurts, doesn't it?" I snickered sarcastically.

I spun around and continued hobbling on the trail as fast as I could from Henry. Before I knew it, my feet detached from the ground and my center of gravity shifted. Henry had heaved my body into him with one arm securing my dangling legs and the other supporting my back.

"Henry, put me down," I said in a low voice. I didn't want to make a scene on the trail so early in the morning. My hands pounced on his chest, trying to make him let me down, but he didn't care.

His face leaned in towards me, and I turned my face so that his lips landed on my cheek.

"Henry..." I spoke his name firmly. "Let me down now."

"Why?" he asked, repositioning me so that I was tighter in his grasp.

"I'm no longer that toy you can just play with however you feel like. I have feelings, too. I have a heart just like you, Henry."

His smile faded, along with the playful gleam in his eye. He finally set my feet down, freeing me, and I started back down the snow-covered path where I came from.

"Ally, please listen to me," he begged. I stopped in my tracks. "I want us to go back to the way things were. Before when we were still happy together. No, I want us to start over. Can we?"

I couldn't let his words manipulate me like before. The old Ally would have given in, but not this one. This Ally wasn't naïve anymore.

"No," I blurted out. "Even if we could go back to the way things were before, I wouldn't. I would go back to the time when I never met you, the time when I never knew or laid eyes on a person named Henry Cavill. That's when."

"Does that mean everything we had up to now...our times together, the things we been through...means nothing to you anymore? Are you just going to throw everything we had away-just like that?"

I faced him, my eyes lifting up to meet his. "We were over a long time ago-even before it all started."

"I'm trying, remember." I tried to shake off the pleading he made evident in his green eyes.

"Trying is not good enough."

I marched pass Henry, but his hand tenderly grasped onto my wrist. He did this way too many times. Yet every time, my heart still fluttered. "Then tell me. What do I need to do for you to come back to me?"

"Nothing. There is nothing that you can do."

"How long are you going to be like this, Ally?"

"I don't know. All I know is that you're the one who started this. I won't lose to you again. Your nice and gentle Ally is no longer here. She died a long time ago."

"I know you still love me, Ally," he said loud enough just for me to hear.

"Love? You don't have the right to say that word. You don't know what love is, Henry," I removed his hand and continued back to towards the village.

My emotions were all over the place today, and I detested myself for being so mean and stubborn to Henry. My feelings and emotions conflicted every cell in my being. My words came out one way, but my heart demanded another.