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• Two Months Before Leaving You   Chapter-36

  Kara’s POV.After Derrick’s unprompted visit, neither Axel nor I felt like sticking to our original plans, and I quietly asked him if he could drive me back home. Although Axel tried to show that the meeting hadn’t affected him, I could see the tension tightening his shoulders after two years of knowing him.I felt awful. Axel didn’t deserve to be attacked by Derrick like that. I had no idea why Derrick was being so hostile to Axel; he had no reason to be. Axel had done him nothing wrong! Derrick hadn’t been the type to insult people and demean them for their lack of wealth when I was with him, at least, unless it was me. I was his punching bag in the sense that he always accused me of being a gold digger. He was a demanding boss, that was clear, but he did treat everyone else who wasn’t married to him with dignity.So, what was his deal with Axel? Was he just being a jerk to him because Axel was my friend?The ride home was quiet as I tried to find a way to apologize to Axel on Derri

• Two Months Before Leaving You   Chapter-35

  Derrick’s POV.He was holding her hand.As soon as he saw me, he snatched it back and schooled his expression, but I saw how he’d been looking at her. No man looked at a woman like that without being halfway in love with her.And she was letting him. It looked like she even liked it. Every time I’ve seen these two together, they seemed to enjoy each other’s company immensely, and I couldn’t believe it.Kara was going out with another man while she was still married to me?!How could she? After telling me over and over again that she loved me, the moment she was away from me, she had fallen for another man?It didn’t matter that she had a different name now, apparently, because I would not allow it!No matter what this woman said, I knew she was Kara, and I wanted to prove it, now more than ever. I couldn’t let this Axel, whoever he was, take her away from me.“Mr. Whitney!” Kara exclaimed. “What a surprise! I hadn’t expected to see you so soon.”Swallowing down all my bitter feelings

• Two Months Before Leaving You   Chapter-34

  Kara’s POV.I gave Derrick my phone number because I didn’t really have an excuse to refuse it. It was company policy that we had to have a professional contact number for the office, and a personal contact number so we wouldn’t make the mistake of mixing work with pleasure, so to speak.I didn’t want to give Derrick my professional number either, so I gave him my second professional number. I’d decided to have a second number on a whim, thinking it might come in handy if my client base got too large to deal with from one number.I didn’t really think I’d use that number. It was a precaution.But if Derrick misused the phone number I gave him, I’d easily be able to block him and cancel the contact number.Derrick was quite happy with gaining my number. Triumphant, even. He looked at me like he’d won already, his expression barely concealing the smugness. It sparked a bone-deep anger within me, and I made up my mind then and there.No matter what happens, when Derrick leaves this city,

• Two Months Before Leaving You   Chapter-33

  Kara’s POV.I waited, ignoring everything in me telling me to flee, as Derrick looked at me. I waited for him to call me Kara again and ask me what I was doing in Terra’s company.But to my surprise, Derrick just stood up and offered me a handshake.“Nice to meet you, Miss. Brady. Terra speaks highly of you, and I’m looking forward to working together with you in this project, every step of the way.”Even though I was stunned, I couldn’t afford to indulge in it. So, quicker than I’d ever done before, I put on the one mask I’d created throughout the past two years, which helped me get past many sketchy situations.“The pleasure is all mine, Mr. Whitney. I look forward to working on this project with you too,” I reply coolly, taking his hand and giving it a hearty pump. The type I’ve seen Terra do when she needs to tell her more stubborn executives that she was in charge, not them.For a moment, Derrick looks surprised by that but smiles to cover it up.“Well, now that the two of you ar

• Two Months Before Leaving You   Chapter-32

  Kara’s POV.Axel led me away from the crowd, and his hand on my elbow was the only thing that kept me from falling apart.But as soon as I was away from the crowd and hidden in the hallway outside the Reception Hall, I broke down.I began to hyperventilate. Hugging myself close, I leaned against the wall, and felt tremors wrack through my body. The world blurred around me, and Axel’s voice became a distant echo. There was a rushing noise in my ears, and I felt lightheaded from the lack of oxygen.I felt a hand on my back, and it began to rub over my spine in circles. It was so startling that I had to focus on it, and that helped to drown out the whooshing in my ears just enough for me to hear Axel’s voice. “Breathe with me, Kara, come on,” Axel was saying. “Come on, you can do it. Breathe with me and follow my words. In and out. Okay? Okay, breathe in and hold, one, two, three, four, five, now exhale. Yeah, just like that, you can do it, come on. It’s okay, you’re okay. Breathe, Kar

• Two Months Before Leaving You   Chapter-31

  Derrick’s POV.It didn’t feel like two years had passed since Kara’s disappearance from my life.Every day I woke up, thinking that she would finally leave my memory, that I’d be able to come to terms with her death and finally let her go, but she didn’t. Every waking moment, I’d find myself thinking that she was just down the hall in the kitchen, up before sunrise, and making breakfast made especially to suit my dietary needs.I purchased a new house after the villa burned down because I couldn’t bear to live at the family home again under my grandmother’s watchful and disappointed eyes. It looked nothing like the villa, in fact, it was an upscale penthouse apartment, on the top of a luxury apartment building one of my subsidiary companies owned, and it couldn’t be farther away from the villa, all slick lines and modern architecture, so different from the homeliness and the old-world charm of the villa.But still, I expected to see Kara waiting for me every time I came home.Two year