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My ride arrived after a few minutes, and 1 bid farewell to Vivian and told him to wish me luck Kerming Cecil, she wouldn’t take the news well. A breakup would be the last thing she would accept, especially after everything she had been through, but this was for the best
It is better to break up now than when we are married. As long as imela was here, I would never belong entirely to another, not really. Admitting it to myself was the first step out of confusion,
Cecil deserved a better man a man who would take her and all the love she had to give seriousty
The car came to a stop, and I got down and paid. I walked into the house, and there was an opera theme playing.
That was the first.
I made my way further in, dragging myself as usual to the door and opened it. I stepped in and found Cecil seated on the bed, sobbing, and Chloe Reid, her mother, seated beside her, patting her back and consoling her.
My stomach turned, but not in a good way. I didn’t get along with the Reids as well as I should, and I have since begun avoiding anything that brought me under the same roof as them. It was for peace to reign.
They noticed my presence, and Cecil rose from the bed and ran over to me. She threw her arms around me and sobbed into my chest.
I didn’t know how to respond; it could be the alcohol in my system numbing me up. Still, Chloe, an outsider, was here, and I chose to provide support for her. We stayed that way until she stopped crying, and Chloe took her leave after instructing me to take care of her.
That instruction would be hard to follow, considering why I came here.
“You came back,” she said, kissing my lips. I placed my hands on her shoulders and pulled back. “I knew you loved me; I knew you would come back.” She smiled and kissed my lips again.
Her hands slid from my face down to my chest, and then she moved to grab me through my trousers.
I took hold of her hands and stepped back. “I came to talk, Cecil.”
The smile on her face disappeared so fast; I thought it was magic. “Talk? About what?” She has a sad
frown now.
I couldn’t be deterred from the mission, though; yes, it seemed cruel, but it was better now than at the last minute. “About the wedding and our relationship.” I said and brought her to sit on the bed with me.
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Her brows furrowed, and her confusion was apparent. “Our relationship has been experiencing a rough path, but it is normal for every couple, and our wedding is in two weeks; everything is in place,” she answered, smiling wearily.
“I do not want to continue with the wedding or this relationship,” I replied as calmly as possible, grateful I could speak despite everything.
She stared at me silently, as if waiting for me to take it back or call it a joke. She must have seen the truth in my eyes because she pulled her hands away from mine and rose from beside me.
“What is this?” she demanded, wanting to keep her control but failing miserably.
My eyes softened, and I rose. “Cecil…”
Her hand shot up to silence my words. “No, why would you do this to me? After everything we’ve been
through, after everything I’ve done for you?” She asked bitterly.
“It is better now than later.”
A tear ran down her face, and she wiped it off, stepping back. “For who, you? Because I know this is not
for me.”
“For the both of us, you deserve better than me. You deserve a man who will love you truly, and that
man cannot be me.”
My greatest fear growing up was dying without love, and the next was ending up like my parents. I couldn’t imagine spending an eternity stuck with someone I didn’t love or want to be with, but that was
where I was headed.
“Do not tell me what you think I deserve; I know what I deserve, and that’s you.” She said, her face paled the next second as if she had just realised the truth. “This is about Imela, isn’t it?”
“Cecil. This is about me.” I tried to steer her away from that line of thought because it would not be good for us. “This is about me knowing I could never love you the way you deserve.”
“Stop lying to me!” She screamed at me, picking up the alarm clock on the nightstand and throwing it at
- me.
I ducked, and it grazed over my arm.
Cecil didn’t look done. “This is about Imela; it has always been about that witch! You got a tattoo of her on your fucking body, and you work with her now more than ever. You changed since she returned, and you have kept secrets and things from me. I just lost Stop, the next thing I cared about after you, and now I am about to lose you too, to her!” she cried.
I lost it with her attempt to blame everything on everyone else but herself. She had a role to play in all of
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this. “You kept secrets from me; your secrets drove me away, Cecil, and this had nothing to do with Ela. I left here many weeks ago, and I still don’t want to return.”
“I did what I did to protect you. She betrayed you and left you in your lowest state, and you still want her. She’ll bring your destruction, and you can’t even see that.”
“Cecil…”
She walked up to me and grabbed my face. “No, you are not ending the relationship, and I am not calling off the wedding.” She forced a smile. “You are confused. Everything is happening too fast, and you are confused. But you will see the light, and when you do, you will marry me.”
