I Swear, Let Me Love You Again

Lydia’s POV:

“Good morning.” I responded with a tight-lipped smile then moved to the left in order to continue my journey to my office.

“I hope those chocolates are still your favorite and you do love the flowers.” He questioned softly and I knitted my eyebrow in confusion before adding two and two.

No way hard hearted Nathaniel King sent me roses and chocolates, my favorites? This was totally new.

“You don’t have to do all of that. It’s not necessary.” I informed him sternly with my icy attitude.

“I…”

“Just let me be.” I cut him off and walked away without feeling any remorse.

After work, rather than heading back into my penthouse, I headed to Lorena’s House. She owned her own duplex and lived comfortably which I truly admired. My bestie was always a boss bitch and fashionista, I loved seeing her winning and happy.

I noticed a brown Bentley driving past me before I pulled my Mercedes Benz in front of her house, hopping out of my car with chocolate, cookies and a gallon of ice-cream. I had begun to exercise again to keep me in shape with all the amount of junk I tend to consume.

“Ding Dong.” I pressed  the button and after a long frustrating minute, she opened the door looking quite shocked to see me.

“Lydia, what are you doing here? Did you perhaps see who just left?” She questioned nervously and I did not respond. I just stormed into her apartment and looked around the surroundings.

“Now, tell me exactly what is going on?”

“What do you mean? Nothing is going on.” She answered cooly and I squinted my eyes trying to detect any form of tears but nothing.

“Darren and I are good now, we talked. He felt like I didn’t need him anymore which is why he was acting nonchalant and hurting my feelings. I scolded him already, telling him we should communicate about if he ever felt some type of way about anything. I also shared with him how I have been feeling. He apologized deeply and we ended up making loveeee.” She sang looking extremely happy.

“That’s good to hear! Why didn’t you respond to me the whole day then? I was worried about you, planning to head out to his game tonight and give him a piece of my mind.” I told her seriously walking into the spacious kitchen, it was all clean, organized and painted in white.

“My bad, I have been designing and there was an August visitor who came around and left a few minutes ago.” She explained watching as I placed the ice-cream in the freezer.

“Who was it?” I asked curiously and she shrugged using an invisible key to seal her lips and toss the key away.

“Tell me please. I know it’s someone I know.” Whoever it was must have forgotten, Lorena cannot keep a secret from me for five seconds so she was going to spill in 5, 4, 3, 2….

“It was Aaron.” My eyes went wide and she quickly covered my mouth.

“What?” I asked in case I had heard wrong.Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“Yeah Lydia. He’s back.” Her words were slowly registering in my head.

“When? How? Why? For what? Are you kidding?” I questioned and she chuckled softly as I was stumbling on my words.

“I’m serious for real. Based on what I could gather, he’s here for you.” I was puzzled.

For me? No way, but maybe he missed me as much as I missed him. And thought of me as well, I was so truly happy to see him, I wonder how he was like now.

“So I just opened our chat thread…who is the sweetheart that you got these? Maybe Aaron?” She suggested and I scoffed, rolling my eyes.

“It was Nathaniel.” Her eyes went wide and shook her head in disbelief.

“No way…”

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JENNY’S POV.

After going shopping for the clothes I would be wearing to the company since I had gotten the job, I sat back at the edge of my bed contemplating.

At the mall, I saw a girl and her boyfriend who were in a heated argument. Her boyfriend was about to walk away from her but as soon as she started to feel dizzy and eventually collapsed. He ran towards her with the expressions of love, fear and worry. It reminded me of those times, Nathaniel would do anything to ensure I was healthy.

I concluded in my mind that pretending I was sick again will be the best way to get Nathaniel’s attention back. My doctor, who I had bribed while I was in hospital to collaborate with me and ensure Lydia keeps donating her blood despite the fact that I didn’t need it but loved seeing her foolishly do that, had informed me it would be possible for Nathaniel to believe me and I was definitely backed up by her.

I needed to get into action and I had made a secret promise to myself since the day Nathaniel had yelled at both his mum and I for having sent his ex-wife to prison. I promised I would do whatever I could to destroy Lydia as she seemed important to Nathaniel.

I cleared my throat after applying make up that had my face pale and my body looking weak. I glanced at myself in the mirror and was amazed at my make-up skills.

I should be a make-up artist. I smirked thinking to myself.

I called up Nathaniel lying lifelessly on the bed, to my disappointment he didn’t respond on the first call so I called again. Right before the call was about to drop, he answered.

“Jennifer, I’m busy right now! What do you want?” He asked, obviously stressed by whatever was going on with him.

“Nathan…I don’t feel too.. too good, I’m.. ” I stopped talking and decided to just close my eyes, letting my phone crash on the floor. I smirked hearing him call my name repeatedly.

“Plan was already working.” I praise myself and let slumber take over as I awaited Nathaniel’s arrival.