33. Recalling the past (a) Liam's POV I don't want to think about her but my mind automatically wanders back to her. My heart has been heavy since that night. Though I went back home, assuming that Arielle must have gone back to her apartment too, I was never at peace. I spent the night twisting and turning in my bed. I just wanted to know if she was okay. The ultimate cause of her misery was me and that is why I was feeling so low. That night I had promised to myself that the following morning the very first thing I would do was to go and confront her. To apologize to her and make her believe adding up to her vulnerability was the last thing I meant to do at that moment. It's just that I couldn't help. I had an impulse to hurt her with my words. Hurt her with my shoves. Heaving a sigh, I rang my R&D manager, Jay. He generally conducts research for improvement and recent trends for the development of our product, this time I handed him a completely different task. "Good after,
34. Recalling the past (b) Liam's POV (cont'd) I basically shared all my problems and feelings with her. It was only when my grandfather decided to be mean to me is where I could find the courage to tell her. Because two days before that Arielle had been grounded by her father and was slapped hard in the face for having a rose in her bag. It was mine. I had put it in her bag with a note that her father luckily didn't find except for the rose. Arielle was like the brightest star in my otherwise dark and aloof life. She radiated my days with her presence and made me feel wanted and loved. So when the problem as to who would become the next successor of my grandfather's flourishing business arose, I made sure to keep it and its smell away from Arielle. I was scared that if she breathed the issue then she would surely try to interfere. She didn't just love me, she also cherished me as if I was the best thing that had happened to her. But life is unpredictable. It got back at me in th
35. Heated argument and confessions Arielle's POVMy blood rushed wildly as Liam laid his hands on me and pulled me back. I feigned a gasp and flickered my eyes to show that I was petrified. I narrowed my eyes as if I didn't expect to find him there. "Liam?" I whispered, acting like I was amazed by his appearance but in truth, my heart did a little flip upon seeing him. I found myself oddly out of breath. The relief upon seeing swept over his face. A small smile burst on his otherwise twisting lips for a second before he composed his stern side. His shoulders tightened but the hold on my waist remained smoldering yet firm. "Where the hell have you been?" My belly clenched at his question. As if he doesn't know! I disappeared because he hurt me. His words felt like salt on a fresh burned wound that night. Obviously it was a plan as I wanted him to feel restless and feel the void, which he did. "Why do you care?" However, I looked away, trying to define my hurt as I let a mournful
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1. A bride who can satisfy his needs Las Vegas, At night, Liam sat cozily in the chair in his study, in his penthouse, giving the view of blinking Vegas in the dark behind his back. His heart throbbed in his chest as he looked up at his friend Allister with a smirk. "You're finally ready for a marriage?" Allister asked him with a raised eyebrow. Liam took another sip of his whiskey as he nodded, deciding that it was time for him to come out of his solitude and allow another woman into his life. It was time for him to get married. At least someone who would look after his house and him. Six years of loneliness was enough. Six bloody years of slipping into various women's beds, trying to find one who could feel like her. But now he knew he needed to settle down with someone better. Someone who would keep him occupied. "What kind of woman?" Amanda, Allister's wife, budged in. Liam had nobody in his life. Just Allister and Amanda, his friends from college, and even they were so
2. The only thing you miss is— your ex-girlfriend! Next day, in a bright sunny morning, Liam was working in his office with dedication when his PA, Mr. Anlon D'mello, a 38 years old trusted man knocked at his door. He looked up from the files he was reviewing and smirked darkly, "Mr. D'mello, what part of 'Do not disturb me until lunch break' was not clear to you? Tell me so I make myself seriously clear to you next time and save myself from firing my best PA." He noticed the man in his late thirties scrunch his eyebrows nervously. He was not at fault most of the times when he interrupted his boss, given that, important messages and events arrived unexpectedly and because of that he had to come to irritate him. "Apologies, Mr. D'zire, but your friend, Mr. Caxton is here." His PA muttered softly. "I told him you are busy but he said that it is important. He wants to see you now." Liam set aside his files and straightened his back. "Hmm, let him in." He ordered and calmly reste
3. His exiled ex-girlfriend, Arielle Scott Amanda's heart was hammering. She stared at the tower Arielle resided in with wide eyes. Arielle has become a successful fashion photographer and earned handsome remuneration off of her passion. Otherwise they studied business management in college. Anyway, Amanda removed her phone and gazed at the address sent to her by the matrimonial agency. "I can't believe I am going to meet you after six years, Arielle." Amanda mumbled in anguish. She was afraid to see Arielle out of the blue but then she set her emotions aside and composed herself. Walking inside the tower, then into an elevator, she took a deep breath. She nervously stepped out of the elevator, looking around the fifth floor she was on, and gawked at the apartment number (206) with blinking eyes. "Okay, stay calm, Amanda. You're here with a good motive so don't be scared." She told herself and ultimately rang the doorbell of Arielle's apartment. She hadn't seen her former room
4. Even after 6 years of separation... She is still single! "Amanda?" Arielle's gorgeous face peeked outside the door, completely surprised. "Arielle!" Amanda, who had been hesitant, quickly grew happy on seeing her and threw her arms around her former classmate and roommate's shoulders. She hugged her happily and squeezed her. Arielle, on the contrary, stood there stunned. She had not expected anyone to come and see her. Not someone from her past life that she missed and craved for. "Hey!" She hesitantly hugged her back. When they parted away, "You have grown even more beautiful, El. Much more gorgeous and mature." A raw and primitive grief overwhelmed Arielle. She forced a smile and stepped aside, "Co-come inside." Amanda knew it would be awkward for her. What happened six years ago at the age of eighteen, left Arielle alone. Everyone left her and their mutual friends had split too, forcing her to isolate herself from the outer world. But now, all these years later som