Chapter 32
When Ashton and Callie reached Paris it was already late in the evening. They had the contract signing meeting the next Afternoon.
“Good morning Sir! Do you have a booking with us?” The lady at the reception desk queried Ashton.
“Yeah.. Under the name..” He looked at Callie for the answer.
“Ashto
The next day, it was almost eleven in the night and there was no sign of Ashton yet. He hadn’t called her after the previous night when he informed her that his work was done. She had tried his number early the next morning but it was switched off. She thought he had boarded his flight and waited for more than nine hours. “He should be here by now. Why isn’t he here yet?” She looked at the clock for the hundredth time in the last half an hour.The meal that
Ashton opened his eyes before they fell on the sleeping figure of his beautiful wife. He must have been a fool to ruin this lovely life, he thought. She looked as fragile as glass and it pained to think that he was about to shatter her into a million pieces by dropping the bomb of sleeping with another woman. How would she forgive him when he was unable to forgive himself. They hadn't talked to each other properly, no that was not entirely true. She had been trying to talk to him and ask what was wrong with him but whenever she tried to talk to him, he was either drunk or angry.Just when Katherine thought that everything was going on fine between them for a while, Ashton had to ruin everything by behaving like a moron to her
Ashton was startled from his nap by the ear-shattering sound of the thunder. He didn't know when he fell asleep, leaning against the back of his chair but when he woke up, he saw that the whole house was illuminated by a weird kind of darkness that he had never witnessed before. It seemed like the last rays of sunshine had gone missing from his life."Kathy.." He knew she would be angry at him and wouldn't want to see him at all. That was why he had left her alone, giving her sometime time to calm down.When he approached their bedroom, there was calm, the calm that is felt before the storm. A chill ran thr
A few months earlier: (England)"Mr.McKenzie.. Your father is diagnosed with liver cancer." The chief doctor informed Harris.Harris stared at the doctor, trying to process his words for a couple of minutes."How bad is it?" Harris asked blankly."I'm sorry but he is at the final stage of his illness." Harris pressed his lips into a thin line to control his raging emotions. "Can I see him?"
Ashton kicked open the door to his apartment, which was engulfed in a tragic darkness. His house was never so dark before. Katherine always made sure to keep it well lit and ventilated. Now that she was gone, both his house as well as his life felt awfully dark. Ashton's hands stumbled against the wall in search of the switches to turn on the lights but with the amount of alcohol in his body, even standing still on the ground was becoming too difficult for Ashton. "Kathy baby, are you home?" He called out to her like he had been doing for the past six months with a slight trace of hope still lingering at his heart, that someday his wife would say, 'Yes honey, I'm here.."When he didn't hear anything in return except for the grave silence, he silently walked into his bedroom and opened Katherine's closet. He pulled out her yellow summer dress that still held a tinge of her sweet scent. While pulling it out, something shiny fell on the grou
Chapter 39Five years later:“Mommy, look.. Uncle Harry is here!!” Little Crystal pulled her hand from Katherine’s hold as she ran towards her uncle. “Uncle Harry..” She threw her small body in his arms. “Hey Princess!!” Harris caught her and tossed her up in the air, causing her to g
Chapter 40 “Are all the papers ready?” Ashton queried his secretary while sipping his cup of coffee.“Yes Mr.Schwimmer.” The young secretary placed the files carefully on the table. “You may go now..” He dismissed her and glanced through the agreement papers. He ran his eyes carelessly on it until they got stuck on the name, Katherine McKenzie. The name alone was enough to shake his whole body with an unknown surge of electricity but he knew this Katherine could not be his Katherine.
The sound of a loud slap resonated within the walls of the living room followed by Katherine’s shrieking voice, “How could you do this to me, huh? I trusted you so much..” She spoke between her sobs.Rodrick had detailed everything from the night to Harris, before he even reached Manhattan. He was preparing for this and he embraced it willingly. “I’m not sorry for what I did.” He murmured, escalating Katherine’s fury more than tenfold.“What did you just say?” Katherine pounced forward.