Chapter 102: NONSENSE
"What nonsense are you spouting?" Monica questioned Jake out of shock. "Even though I still love him, that’s not enough reason for the both of us to still be together," she added as she continued to stare at him in the eyes.
Jake scoffed and looked away before he said,
"Don’t pretend you don’t want to be with him, you want to leave me to be with the guy who once broke your heart many years ago, do you know how foolish that sounds?"
PAK
Jake felt the stinging pain on his left cheek as he stared at Monica in shock.
"I never said that I want to be with him", she spouted with a furious tone. "And so what if I want to be with Jake? I love him" she declared, her words hurting the man in front of her deep in his heart. "Just because you were there for me those times when I was hurting deeply, it doesn’t give you the right to tell me who I should or shouldn’t be with".
Without waiting for him to say anything else, Monica left from there to get back to her car and wait for her manager.
Jake stood at the entrance of the art gallery, holding his cheek that still continued to sting due to the slap that he had just received from her with a shocked expression written all over his face.
He had never in his wildest dreams expected Monica to lay her fingers on him just because of another man. That thought made him even more furious that he already was.
He clenched his fist tightly with a promis, "Felix, you think you might have won this battle but you are terribly mistaken. Monica is mine and you will continue to be the guy who betrays her and I will be the one whom she will be in love with, not you".
Monica went back to her hotel room to try to relax her mind, she unlocked the door and found Felix in her room which left her surprised, "How did he get into my room?" she wondered.
"Hey, where were you?" Felix asked her, totally ignoring the questioning gaze he was receiving from her.
"How did you enter my room?" she asked him and the latter only brushed away her question by waving his hand before he repeated his.
"Where have you been?"
Frowning, Monica also ignored his and went to drop her bag on the bed before coming to stand in front of his face.
"You need to leave", she declared, which left Felix confused.
"What do you mean ’leave’?" he asked her.
Monica took a deep breath before she released it, "We are not dating", she clarified. "So let’s stop acting like we are", she added seriously which only made Felix even more confused as he stared at her with a frown.
"I don’t understa..."
"You know very much about what I am saying Felix, what we had was in the past so let’s forget about the kiss, the date and the flowers. Let’s just forget that we ever did any of those", she cut him off.
Felix stared at her for a few seconds before he declared,
"I won’t", his words firm as if he was making a promise. "I will never forget them and you know why, Monica. You feel the same way I feel for you so what’s stopping you from getting back together with me?" He questioned her. "The other day, you treated the injuries I got from that boyfriend of yours. And yesterday, you agreed to go on a date with me and today, you are asking me to forget everything? Is this your own method of punishing me huh?" he added.
A single tear dropped from Monica’s eyes and she immediately tore her gaze away from Felix.
"You have been punishing me for 6 years already, please have pity on me," he pleaded. "It’s really painful for me to hear those words coming out of your mouth Monica, so please, stop this. I know what I did was wrong and I’ve already paid for it, have pity on me".
His words felt like daggers that had been forcefully pushed into her heart and more tears continued to roll down from her eyes. Gradually, she fell on the floor and Felix followed suit. He hugged her tightly, trying to comfort her but she sobbed loudly.
"If you are scared that the mistake i committed years ago would repeat itself, then let me tell you this", he said as he cupped her face and used his thumb to wipe her tears away before he continued, "I will never break your heart again, Monica, i promise you that. Just give me a chance, please", he added.
"But..."
"There’s no buts, Monica. We love each other deeply and this is what we want. I know that you are scared but if I ever make you sad again, then..."
Felix darted his eyes around the hotel room before he found a paring knife that had been stabbed into an apple. He pulled the blade out and walked back to Monica.
Handing her the knife, he continued,
"If I ever make you sad again, then you can use this knife or any other knife you find and pierce it into my heart, as deeply as you can."
"What are you doing?" Monica asked him as she tried to get her hands away from the knife that he wanted her to hold.
"I’m serious", he said. "If I ever break your heart again, kill me because I won’t be able to live while knowing that I have hurt you. Here, take it", he added.
Monica took the knife and threw it away.
"What are you saying? I won’t be able to live either after knowing that I killed you so that knife is not important".
"Does that mean....?"
"Yes, stupid. I love you too much to do such a thing to you", she confessed and Felix stared at her with wide eyes. "You are cr....mmm" without getting the chance to complete her words, her lips were sealed with his as he kissed her deeply.
