Stay For Me Novels & Stories

He used his connections to send me here. Suddenly, my phone rings. “Excuse me for a moment,” I said. “Hello?” I said as I answered the phone. “Sophie, I will be having a business trip for 5 months in Rome. Uhm, I contacted your university to book you a room in a dorm. Will you be fine with it?” he asks. Eh? A dorm? Is he serious? “Huh? Why? I mean, I can ask our driver to send me to school,” I said. I have a driver, why would he find a dorm for me?

I say. “Meaning?” “Meaning when I get bored.” He watches me carefully. “And are you bored?” I look out at the city again. At the sunlight spilling over the rooftops. At the strange calm sitting in my chest. “No,” I say quietly. He waits. The words leave my mouth before I can overthink them. “Maybe I’ll stay here a little longer.” The words surprise me the moment they leave my mouth. Stay longer. I’m not even sure where they came from.

Keep looking. Me: I've been looking for days. This is what's available in my budget. I waited. Let the implication sit. Let him feel guilty about me having to move into a shitty apartment because of money. His response took longer this time. Damon: What if you stayed here a bit longer? Just until you find something better? Perfect. Me: Are you sure? I don't want to overstay my welcome. Damon: You're not. Stay as long as you need.

"Yeah, something like that, love. And you can stay here with me. For as long as I am here. Have you thought of who you'll choose to stay with back at the estate? Someone you'll call your aunt or woman in waiting?" "I actually thought about that." "And what have you decided?" I asked sharply. Why the fuck did I even ask her about that? That would only remind her that she needed to leave. "Oh, I better remember as the way she's been to me," she said, and smiled. "I can't pretend." "We can stay for two more days. Them we'll see." Two more days meant that she would stay with me until Tuesday. I needed to find a way to fix whatever issue needed attention in Japan so I could go back with Liora.

“Stop being mean to me! Stop being mean to me!” I break down in tears. My chest is stifling. It cannot contain my frustration. Why won't anything ever go my way? “Kael, what do I do?” Kael pats my back with an assuring look. “It's okay. This is not the end. You can still shift another full moon. Pull yourself together.” “What do I do? What do I do Kael…I'm so confused right now…” She sighs and without speaking another word, she just pulls me into her body. I stay there in her hands and my tears flow.

All the warmth is gone. "I have this meeting," he says, and he sounds apologetic. "You're going to have to stay here by yourself. If you want to go back to the apartment, I'll call Hans." No, I can't go yet. If I go there, I'll pick my phone up. I'll give Devon a call, the call he's probably been waiting for for weeks. I need to stay here, next to him, and think about what I really have to do. I shouldn't have any doubts, but I do. I can't help myself. "I'll stay here. I'll wait for you." I look around. There's a bar and food and a lot of places I could sit. I'll manage without him.

“Tomorrow.” That’s so soon. I don’t want to voice out my disappointment. I wish he could stay longer. For at least two days. We haven’t had time to do anything since. . . You know what, happened. “I’ll set everything ready for you to feel at home here. You’re welcome to live here whenever you want when I’m gone. My servants have strict orders to make you feel safe and not alone.”

I need your attention. I need to know that I matter to you, just once. Why can’t you see me the way I see you? Why can’t you care? Every time you pull away, every time you don’t look at me, it pulls me deeper into this. I need you to notice. I need you to feel it too. But you don’t. And I don’t know how much longer I can take it.

I stayed because of one reason only. Because I wanted to be there when the world cracked open for him again, so that when he wanted someone to be there for him, this time he would have someone to lean on. Me.

Not the contract version of staying. Not the arrangement version. Just: stay. With me. For as long as you'll have it. Which I intended, if she said yes, to interpret as a very long time.