Lahat ng Kabanata ng Two Months Before Leaving You: Kabanata 51 - Kabanata 60

Jade’s POV.After we returned to our hotel room, Derrick cleaned off the minibar while cursing Kara’s name. To help him, I ordered a few more bottles of alcohol to be sent up to our room, and by the time midnight rolled along, Derrick was drunk.Not drunk enough to fall asleep, of course, that wouldn’t do. But he was certainly drunk enough to lose his inhibitions. He’d gone out of steam a long time ago, cursing Kara’s name, and started sobbing for her.It was really pathetic.“How could she just move on like that?” he asked me, voice shaking with tearless sobs. “And with someone like that? She could just make us all believe she’s dead and leave to live a life on her own. Doesn’t she care about the guilt we carry? Doesn’t she think we care?”“I hate what she’s doing to you,” I murmured and rubbed his back soothingly. “Kara doesn’t d

Kara’s POV.I didn’t really have what it took to be anyone’s personal assistant. I wasn’t the most organized girl out there, not by a long shot. I knew how to keep my place clean, a habit I had to learn while being a foster kid in a group home. I could plan, because that was also necessary when you were a foster kid. You had to have a plan to get out and succeed once the time came for the state to wash its hands of you. You had to have a plan on how to get to college, how to learn something that didn’t make you miserable, all while having the promise of making you money in the future, how to find a job, how to live while not being a student…all of it needed a plan. Still, knowing how to plan and how to be neat didn’t make one capable of being the personal assistant of a woman who managed multiple businesses (yeah, sure, her grandson is the CEO of the company by name, but we all knew who actually pulled the strings around here).I didn’t know how I got chosen out of all the people wh

Kara’s POV.“So, this contract…” Axel started after we finished dinner. “What exactly did it entail?”“Well,” I said, crossing my legs and hugging myself before starting to talk. “I need to tell you the story from the beginning before you can truly understand everything. This all happened when I started working as Helen Whitney’s personal assistant right after college five years ago.” “Before all that, Derrick was in a relationship with Jade, my best friend. Jade was pretty bright, and so was I, so we managed to get scholarships for a good college. There, we met Derrick. He didn’t care for me at all, but he instantly clicked with Jade, mostly because they were both studying business. I was just an arts kid.”“I don’t really see how you fell for him, to be honest,” Axel commented. “He doesn’t seem like your type. He’s too arrogant and selfish.”“He wasn’t always like that,” I admitted. “I didn’t actually fall for him in university. It happened way before that.”“Huh?”“When I was in m

Jade’s POV.“Derrick,” I asked, trying not to sound as annoyed as I felt. “What are you doing?”Derrick sat in front of his laptop, clicking away on his keyboard. He opened the tab in Instagram once again and started to type a name in it.Jesse Brady.A list of suggested names appeared beneath the name, and Derrick scrolled down to the very bottom, his scowl becoming more prominent by the second.“Work,” he grunted half-heartedly. “Just some stuff for office.”He didn’t even hesitate to lie to my face.Trying not to lose my patience, I placed the tray I had brought with me on the table next to him and tried my best to smile and pretend like nothing was wrong.“Well, I figured that you were working hard up here,” I said in a saccharine sweet voice. “So, I brought you lunch.”“Thanks,” Derrick grunted, still not taking his eyes off the computer screen.“Are you not going to eat?” I asked after a few moments. “I cooked it for you all by myself. It’s your favorite.”“Yeah, sure, I’ll do t

Kara’s POV.I couldn’t believe it.Even though I couldn’t see her, having Jade there meant Derrick was close by, and I just couldn’t deal with his harassment, not at the most important event of my life!Jade, of course, noticed this.“Oh, don’t worry, I’m not here with him today,” she said, bringing my attention back to her. She was smirking. “He’s not going to come near you anytime soon, not if I have any say in it.”My initial instinct was not to believe her, thinking she was trying to trap me in some way. But then a man I’d never seen before came and wrapped his arm around Jade’s waist in an extremely non-platonic manner.“Hey, baby, for a second there I thought I missed you in the crowd,” he said, giving her a leery smile. I felt like I shouldn’t have seen that at all.Jade gave him an equally saucy smile.“Just chatting up with one of the artists here,” she replied sweetly. “David, meet Jesse Brady. She’s the one who drew all the darker pieces they’re showing. And Miss. Brady, th