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.
After their last close encounter Ashton and Katherine had been ignoring each other with the misunderstanding of each one of them being married to someone else.Ashton busied himself with work. He tried hard not to think about Katherine, but it seemed like a herculean task for him to not think about his ex-wife whom he was still in love with. The
Chapter 40 Katherine was in the middle of a meeting when her door was thrown open with a loud bang, causing everyone present there to flinch. Ashton stood there with his hair unkempt, his jaw set sharp, his piercing cold eyes staring at Katherine, clearly fuming at her. She betrayed him. She shattered his trust that he had on her. He knew he was partly responsible for all this but she could have told him about their baby girl. She had kept him away from his daughter for so many years. How could she do that to him? Never in a billion years had he thought that she would betray him like this. ‘What is he doing here? And why is he looking at me as if he is going to kill me?’ Her b
“Welcome back home..” Ashton grinned at Katherine as soon as he unlocked the door to his apartment. Katherine rolled her eyes and walked past him into the living room.“Hey, little one..” He lifted Crystal in his arm while he carried her bags in another. “Welcome..” He couldn’t wipe the smile off his face seeing his daughter at his home. Actually, he was still in shock. Until a few days ago, he wouldn’t have the slightest thought that he was a father to a four year old.
Chapter 45Katherine and Ashton’s friends left one by one after dinner. Katherine promised them to visit often like old times. Ashton’s parents didn’t have the heart to go home after seeing Crystal sleep so soundly in Kate’s arms but eventually left after a little while.Ashton carried Crystal to her bed and laid her very gently before pecking her forehead. He stood beside her bed for a whole minute admiring his baby girl’s sleeping form. He couldn’t be any more proud when his parents praised his daughter for being very smart and well-behaved. He had to admit that Katherine had done an amazing job in raising her