Rose III {✓}

🌹Chapter Twenty - Two🌹

🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWENTY - TWO🌹

Two Months Later

Walking inside Alexander's house after being discharged from the hospital feels like a new lie has begun. Everything looks exactly the same as I was here the last time which was a year ago but for me it feels like the two months that have passed.

He comes behind me with all the bags that I had with me since I can't hold anything that is heavy because of my spine and even when I've been to physical therapy, my body is still trying to become the way that it was before. I sigh as we walk inside.

"Do you want anything to eat? I'm sure the chef can have something made" He asks me as he sets the bags down in the living room where someone will take them. "Perhaps just a little snack" I tell him with a smile. Ever since I woke up, Alexander has been there for me and he's been there every step of the way towards healing.

He nods as he calls on a servant and tells him to have the chef make some snacks for us. I sit down on a couch and Alexander sits across from me. "It looks the same" I say to him. Even when he has been there the whole time, I've always felt like there was this barrier between us.

And it makes things awkward and strange and I don't like it but there is very little I can do about it. "I did not have the heart to change it, I wanted you to have something familiar when you woke up and it seems it has worked" He tells me and then we fall into silence.

Which has happened quite a lot for us and I thought it would be just a phase but it has been going on for two months and it makes me sad and hurt. This house may look the same to me but Alexander has changed and I'm not sure that can be reversed.

He isn't the one that he was and I know I can't blame him for that because for him it has been a year while for me it has not and while I'm still holding on to the past, he's already moving towards the future. The servant comes back holding a tray and sets it down on the table in front of us.

I thank him and he leaves without saying a word. The tray has cookies but also some fruit. I take a cookie and start eating it and then I sigh. "Alexander, we need to talk" I say, this is it. We do need to talk about this and sooner is better than later.

I also find that it wants to eat me from the inside out and I really need to let it out. "Yes, I believe we do" He says and I think he refers to the same thing that I am. "Your father will not hurt you here nor anywhere, this house has security measures that is much better than of the Royal family in England" He says and I gasp.

"Alexander, I know that you will protect me from anything, even that horrible man but that isn't what I want to talk to you about" I tell him as I take his hands into mine and look into his eyes. He furrows his eyebrows at me in confusion and I let out a sigh.

"A year has passed since we were last together and while I've not changed that much, you have. You need to tell me what happened in the last year. You've barely spoken of it and it makes me only think the worst of it which I don't want to do, Alexander, you need to talk to me about it and not just how you took over the company, but what you felt" I say to him, pleading to know the truth.

Something tells me that something happened, something that no one else knows and the more I have that feeling inside me, the more I'm going to worry and overthink it but the more I'm going to think that it's something so bad that no one knows about it.