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“What are you doing here?” These words. abruptly came out of my mouth while he smiled in response, saying, “Bella, I‘ ve been thinking about what happened that day a lot and I realized that I indeed had acted on impulse and hurt you. I shouldn’t have hurt you at all.”
“I know I was wrong to get implicated by Winnie’s arrival in my life. I was distracted for a moment. But, trust me, she’s just a friend to me now. If you‘ re unhappy with it, I won’t see her anymore.”
He looked so confident and happy. He thought he would definitely win me over by saying those words. But, I was surprised by something else. His love for Winnie were obvious to anyone with eyes. He had been so crazy about her to keep many substitue. lovers to ease his heart. Now that she was back, wouldn’t letting me go be a relief to him? Why chase me all the way even after
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receiving a cold warning from my brother? Wasn’t it seeking your own death?
I was silent for a long while. He misinterpreted my silence and thought my heart was softened by his words. He took out a small box from his pocket and immediately knelt down, a diamond ring was shining inside the box, “Bella, I know I’ve done you wrong in the past. But believe me, I have realized all my fault and will never repeat it. Give me a another chance and from now on, you’ll be the only one in my life.”
The scene before my eyes reminded me of the dream I saw countless times. I always wanted him to propose me publicly and make our relationship official before everyone. But thankfully, he had never really offered before or else I would be a laughing stock to everyone who knew he was seeing only Winnie in me.
As I walked closed to him, his eyes shined brightly in hope. But, I calmly closed the
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red box before saying in an honest voice,“Daniel, I used to love you before with whole of my heart because I thought you were upright and honest man. But I was wrong. You‘ re nothing but a liar, skilled at scheming and manipulating innocent girls.”
“You have no limits. You could deceive your own brother’s sister without a second thought. Why would I entrust my future to someone like you?” I added.
His face turned pale. He went silent for a long while, thinking what to say on this.
“I’m getting married,” I continued.
He looked up at me with a pair of stunned eyes. He looked shocked. He didn’t expect me to move on from him so quickly.
“Even though we‘ ve met each other only once, I’m already very happy with him. He’s handsome, respectful, honest, upright and, most importantly, he’s my true mate which you were not.”
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“So, please don’t ever come looking for me again. It’s over between us.
“No.”
The flowers and the ring box fell off his hands. He walked up to me and held my arms, pleading in hoarse voice,
“Bella, I know I have hurt you. I thought I couldn’t let go of Winnie. But when you left, I realized you were the one who truly mattered.”
“I have been living in hell for these past few days. I couldn’t rest. All that I was doing, was thinking about you. I even sent Ned to look for you. I was so desperate to know where you were. I thought I’d go crazy if I couldn’t find you.”
“Please, give me another chance. We have spent seven years together, can you really just forget everything?”
I laughed at him bitterly before asking,
“You are right, Daniel. I have spent seven years with you. But, I spent those years as
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Winnie in your eyes, not as myself.”
I brushed his hands off me, feeling,
ridiculous thinking about the past days.
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