SWNOVELS Chapter 456
Chapter 0456
Isn't love beautiful? But I sensed that something happened. Something changed. If everything was okay, he should be with her right now. He never would have married me.
His voice is hoarse as he continues. “ Everything was perfect. She was just amazing and every day I continued to fall more and more in love with her. I had yet to introduce her to Rowan because I wanted her to myself. I wasn’t hiding her, but I wanted more time with her before she met my family. Every day I woke up thinking of how lucky I was to find someone like her. You know our world, Harper, and you know finding a love match isn’t easy.”
That’s just how our society works. It’s hard finding someone who truly loves you. Some of the marriages in our society are business deals and few are founded on love and respect. Then there are the gold diggers. Marriages based on what you can get from your rich partners. I think those are the majority.
“I was so in love I could barely see or - think straight. She’d managed to get me to clean up my act because I didn’t want to hurt her. I didn’t want to break her heart. My eyes were on her alone and no one other girl even registered in my head. That’s how deep I was in” he pauses, catching his breath before continuing.
“We had been dating for around seven months and everything was going so well I thought it was a fucking dream.
This one day, I'd talked to Rowan and my parents and told them I'd be inviting someone to our weekend lunch. They agreed. I was so fucking excited because I'd been dying to introduce her to my family.” His voice catches, and I see the shadows in those eyes. This was going to be bad, I just knew it in my heart.
“We weren't supposed to meet that day, but I didn’t think it would be a problem. She didn’t live on campus, so I went to her apartment. With my excitement, I forgot to tell her that I was stopping by, but looking at it now, "Iseeit as a blessing in disguise. I had a key to her apartment, so I let myself in. She destroyed me that day.” Rubbing my chest, I push the uncomfortable feeling in my heart.
“What happened, Gabriel? What did she do?” I push, urging him to continue.
“The moans from the bedroom were the first hint that something was wrong. I remember walking numbly to the door. It wasn’t completely close. It had a gap wide enough to see my girlfriend riding some bastard. I just stood there shocked and unable to move. I was in denial at first, until they finished. She got off him and laid down on his chest, in the same exact way she did with me after we fucked.”
I can’t stop the gasp that leaves my lips. Like damn! Why would anyone cheat on Gabriel? She had him in her palm. Why would she destroy that? ~ “I managed to get my legs moving, and I would have left, but the moron's words stopped me.” He takes a deep breath. “He asked her why she was with me when he’s the one she loves.
She just laughed and told him that she liked the things I did and bought for her. She said she was in it for the money and connections, and it had been so easy to fool me into thinking she was my dream girl. That she was different from the rest. She then promised that she’d break up with me once they got everything they wanted from my family.”
What an utter bitch. It is despicable the lengths people will go to get what they want. Why play with someone’s heart like that? Why play with their emotions? I will never understand how anyone can be so cruel.
“I'm really sorry about that, Gabriel” without thinking, I grasp his hand and squeeze. “You didn’t deserve that when all you did was love her.
I honestly can't even imagine the pain he went through. The heartbreak he felt hearing the girl he loved confessing those brutal words to another man. It was devastating, and now I see how that day might have shaped him into the unfeeling man he became.
“I know, but I learned my lesson. A lesson that has stuck for so many years” he says, pulling my thoughts back to him, and giving me a small smile. One That does nothing to hide the echoes of pain that girl caused him.