(The Virtuous Husband) In the name of Love

Chapter 8

Noel

A new day, a new beginning and a new plan. I could see it all clearly now. I was god damn sure about my instincts and after last night I was double sure. There could be no wrong in what I had seen last night.

Adam fucking Kinsley was there in that fucking closet room with Ally. They looked close and knowing that Adam was one of the fucking main partners of the Preston's I was fucking sure that Ally was the one selling our secrets. She was the rat that Alex had been looking for and I had the fucking right treatment for rats like her. Things weren't like I had expected them to be. Adam was devious and the evil one. He was friends with Jayce, that Jayce who had destroyed Christa. Last night when I saw her at the entrance of the restaurant I was astounded. For a moment I thought my brain was playing tricks on me but it wasn't

She was there and when she looked at me she didn't run away. Guilt-filled eyes stared at me. Her first word to me was sorry. Tears welled in her eyes as I looked at her.

"I'm sorry Noel," she said with her teary eyes staring into mine. It was really hard to see her like this. So many tears have been shed more were not worth it.

"Christa," I breathed out her name in relief. She was Cheryl's sister but I considered as if she was mine. She was the wild child and at times getting in troubles. I would help her in getting out of those troubles without Cheryl knowing. Her parents didn't like her. While Cheryl was the epitome of being the perfect in everyone's eyes Christ saw as the evil one. She was named as the black sheep of the family.

"Don't be sorry Christa." I breathed out while stepping towards her. The tears in her eyes tugged the strings of my heart.

"I shouldn't have cut you off like that after you helped me so much." Her lips trembled. "After all you did for me I left without a word." You should hate me and call me selfish but I am really sorry Noel. I can't tell you how hard it was getting for me." She was hurting and I could see it in her eyes. The way her voice started to break with every word she tried to speak. We both had beared the pains of that one night that tore everything apart. She had lost her everything that day. Her family, friends and love that she had. The rumours had fled that she wasn't right that she was having an affair with me. How much we had denied and tried to make people believe there was nothing that worked. They believed only what they wanted to like Cheryl did. With hesitance, I moved towards her and enveloped her in a brotherly hug.

"I understand Christa. You don't need to explain and I can't ever hate you. How could I? You had taken your stand and yelled for them to hear that I had not done anything to you. You had tried to prove my innocence even when they didn't want to hear. There isn't a thing I hate about you and you are too good to hate." I told her.

"I have so much to say to you Noel, so much to tell about but I'm too overwhelmed after seeing Jayce that I can't even hold my emotions right in. I'm really sorry." She was trembling in my hold.

"Jayce is here," The anger inside me rose! I knew that he and Christ had a history. I didn't know how bad it was but she feared him. How much I had tried to know the reason behind it. I could never come to know about it. She had told me that it was between him and her but what had happened had been her secret that she doesn't want to share. I still remember the day she had told me that she and Jayce were no more a couple that she had ended it between them.

There was this different kind of emotion in her eyes fear mixing with guilt and love. His name never graced her lips. She wanted to forget him and it scared me the way fear set in her eyes with just his name slipping into any conversation. I couldn't think about how she would react when she would see him face to face.