My High School Billionaire (Sequel to TMDG)

Chapter 35

Dedicated to my lovely school friend who's my guilty secret sharer..hehe! Ally in the picture above. Enjoy..x

I let his arms pull me closer into his sweet smelling self and wrap mine around his neck. In that moment, it feels like nothing's changed. He's the boy I've loved ever since my high school days and that hasn't changed, nor has the fact that every time we fall apart, we only collide harder.

Nathan is like the wind, gentle and rough, wanted and unwanted. He can be the gentle evening breeze on summer evenings and he can be the hurricane.

Only Nathan people, only Nathan.

"Come with me." He mouths against my lips and without giving me any chance to respond, he kisses me again. With such passion, it'd put all the fictional romance moments to shame.

"Where?" I pull back and ask him with my eyes still closed. My tongue still lingering with his taste, my lips sore from the aggressive kissing and my heart swollen.

"Why do you have to ask this every single time?" He says in between catching his breath and I slowly open my eyes.

"You compel me to." I answer in a stern voice and his eyes fly open. The fire still burning in them, his face glistening from the drops of perspiration forming.

"Are you saying you don't trust me?" He asks me with his countenance now settled in a hint of frown.

I chuckle at that, "Are you joking? I'd be a fool to trust you after what you did." I can feel the moisture forming in my eyes but I try my best to fight it. A look of pain crosses his face but he hides it quickly.

"Can we get over it, please? I promise I'll keep you happy, I'll give you everything that you want but can we just forget that this happened and move ahead?" I keep looking at him with my lips parted. He is the same Nathan who knows how dearly I loved my business, isn't he? He's the same Nathan who I fell in love with, isn't he? He's my Nathan Hale, isn't he?

Oh, are you joking lass?!

He isn't. There could not be any bigger proof to conclude it.

I look down and then with a side smile I look back at him. Gently pushing his arms away which surrounded my waist, I take a step back, a step farther from him.

"I think its in the best interest of both of us to forget there ever was anything between us. All we're doing is moving in circles, and this is it. There's no forward or backward step and its time we take one. We have to break out of this viscous circle, we have to!" My voice rises more than I wanted to but the spin of emotions got me tied up.

He looks at me with pain in his eyes and then takes a step towards me, closing the distance. Cupping my face in his hands, he looks in my eyes.

"I'm ready to step out of this circle, Ally. Trust me, I am. I'm ready to take a step forward." I shake my head with closed eyes and push his hands away, one more time.

"You can't make me fall in your trap, Nathan. Not again. Honestly, you've given me too much pain. You took away everything that I ever had, I gave you everything I had, and this is what you've given me. Emptiness. Nothing. You took over my uncle's company, a company which was supposed to be mine right from the beginning and yet I never questioned you after I realized you didn't want to answer. As if that wasn't enough, you had to take away my own bloody company?! Why, Nathan? You knew, you were aware of how hard I'd fallen in love with you, you knew I'd marry you even if what you really wanted out of the marriage was the company. Don't act like it wasn't. I knew it right since the beginning but I never said anything, know why? Because I was drunk on your love, it messed me up, it messed me up so much I never realized I was choking on it, that I was so dangerously obsessed. How can you even live with yourself? I'd never do that to you, Nathan. No amount of money could make me do it. And there was a time where I felt the feeling I had for you was mutual, but one fine day it flashed in front of me in a deep bright red colour that it wasn't. That I was a fool, that I have always been." I don't fight it anymore, the feelings, the tears. I let them all come to surface. My eyes are watering and I don't care.