(The Virtuous Husband) In the name of Love

Chapter 14

Noel

"Did you find her?" Christa asked hastily as soon as I got back in her apartment. I had run to catch Allison and say sorry to her again only to end getting infuriated seeing her with Adam. He wasn't my enemy in a way Richard was but he was his friend and a part of the group of the people I had hated. He was one of the main partners besides Richard and his brother, Jayce and that made me hate him too.

I wanted to beat him to shit just to send a message to Richard that he had messed with the wrong person but then I saw her. Allison stood there with her icy blue eyes and golden curls giving me glares. I could feel her hatred sending shivers down my spine. They made goosebumps rise on my skin. No one had this effect on me but she did. I felt that loathing she had for me inside me and somewhere it tugged at my heart on the wrong way. A slap from Christa on my cheek brought me out of my thoughts.

"Don't tell you said something humiliating to her once again? I assure you if you did I would kill you if you did." She screamed at me while I stood there rubbing my throbbing cheek.

"I couldn't say anything to her. She went away with Adam somewhere," I told her only to have her look at me with narrowed eyes.

"Don't you dare think that she is planning up something against you with Adam because I know it very well she isn't. She is new to this town and could have only met Adam the day I met you. I can vouch for that because she had hated from the moment she saw him staring at her straightforward." She assured.

"Didn't look that way downstairs?" I mumbled under my breath. I hated seeing them like that and this thought made me hate myself more. I hated the fact that she was affecting me. She wasn't supposed to, no one should then why the fucking hell she was.

"What did you say?" she demanded.

"I said that it didn't look like that way. It looked like they were fucking going on a date. You still want to vouch for her because-"

"Shut the hell up! One more fucking word and you would find yourself out of this house and never talking to me again." Her anger my anger shoot the sky. I was mad at Allison, mad at Adam, mad at her and fucking angry with myself.

"If she would have to go on a date with Adam she wouldn't have come to join us for the meal. I know she would have surely told me up if anything was going on with Adam." She informed me. Yeah, like she hell would have.

"Yeah, like the way she told you about what happened to her?" I snorted only to end up with a more angry Christa shooting glares at me. Damn, I shouldn't have said that.

"Do you fucking think any woman would share such a humiliating and degrading experience she had suffered herself. If you think so then I think should go and shout out to every other person I meet about what I had gone through. Even have it published in the newspaper!" she yelled at me and her last words made my eyes snap wide.

"Tell me, Noel, should I knock every other door in this building and tell them about how I was degraded myself. Do you think any woman should?" Her words put me to shame.

"It wasn't the way it happened with us, Christa." I tried to reason only to be shut up by her words.

"Really? Because the way I look at things. It is similar to the thing that happened with me. I was degraded by my own sister and family. My friends turned their backs on me and I had no one left. I think what you did to her what ten times worse than what happened with me, Noel. You made her believe you were interested in her. You build an illusion of love for her, allured her, fucked her and then degraded her just because you thought she was a rat, which she clearly wasn't. You don't have a fucking idea how much you have hurt her, not a fucking inch on an idea. I'm disgusted thinking that you have done this, Noel. For the first time in my life, I don't sympathize with you." I saw the disgust in her eyes for me and it killed me. I had no one besides her and knowing I had let her down made me hate myself. Shamed me in my own eyes.