My Love for You Broke Me

After all, the cold man she was in love with had voluntarily hugged another woman.

Him taking a pity on her might even be worse than him rejecting her.

Nicholas lowered his eyes and said in a tired voice. "Her liking him is a fact that everyone knows. Even my mother is

supportive of it but no matter how much outsiders try to say something to him on Olivia's behalf, no one can touch

that cold heart of his. Do you really think he treated you warmly nine years ago because he loved you?"

I was frozen in place, but still I listened to the cruel words Nicholas had to say. "He only pitied you, Renee."

After a short pause, he snickered as he added, "It might not even have been sympathy."

I fell on the bed when I lost the strength in my legs. My mind was a mess at this point.

"What is wrong? Do you feel sad?" he asked with his eyebrows raised as he looked at me.

"Go, Nicholas." I shut my eyes and chased him off. "You don't have to bother yourself with the past anymore. We

never had a past together anyway. Even if we did, it was all because I mistook you for Christopher."

The room fell silent then, as neither of us said anything else after that. After a moment, I suddenly blew a gasket

and yelled, "Are you leaving or not? Do you really have to make me spit venomous words? Or is it your intention to

make me jump from here?!"

He still stubbornly stood there looking at me.

My hatred for him in the past was too deep for me to not have biased opinions about him now.

Even if he had forgotten about our past and he was innocent after all, I couldn't help but feel annoyed at his mere

existence.

All I wanted now was for him to completely disappear from my life.

What I didn't know was that Nicholas was pretending to have lost his memories. In fact, he remembered both our

past and how he loved me.

He was only doing this to get to know me in a different way.

But me?

I told him to his face that he was nothing but a fake.

I had directly denied his existence.

He was exactly like how I used to be. We both tried to keep our nonchalant faces on no matter what kind of storm

was brewing inside us. Not only that, we were constantly rejected by the person we loved despite how we had

brainstormed for ways to get closer to them. And even though we were on the receiving end of harsh words, we

refused to give up on our love.

The Nicholas then was a man unmoving and stubborn in love.

…

As Nicholas continued to refuse to leave, I started to drag my suitcase downstairs. I was about to step under the

rain when he suddenly grabbed my arm and instructed in an indifferent tone, "Stay. I will go."

After saying that, he marched into the drizzle with his long legs, his back looking as lonely as it was determined.

My eyes had become wet at some point as I looked at him walk away.

I closed my eyes to calm myself, and I eventually turned around and went upstairs again.

It was probably because I had spent half a day quarelling with Nicholas that I was exhausted by the time I returned

to my room. I went straight to bed after taking my anticancer drugs. I proceeded to have a fitful night of rest

riddled with nightmares. It couldn't even be considered a 'rest' with the amount of times I had woken up in the

middle of it.

I was lying in bed the next morning, letting fatigue take over me when Merlin gave me a call.

"Babe, do you have time later?" he asked as he wanted to spend time with me.

I would have told him that I did if it was before, but I couldn't help feeling uneasy after our conversation last night.

Worried that our entanglement would only get more complicated from this point on, I quickly rejected him. "I will be

leaving Eldham soon."

"But you have only just arrived! Why are you suddenly leaving?" I could tell that he was confused.

I could only make up an excuse to brush him off. "The company is still under my name. I have a lot of things I need

to take care of. I am also planning to make a trip to Sundew for a body checkup. Clair has been pestering me about

it."

Anything concerning me was a priority to Clair.

He forbade himself from making any careless mistakes, and he was even more stern about me ruining my own

body.

Merlin gave me a reminder again before I departed from the city, "Ree, our only responsibility now is to heal you.

Everything else can wait. I hope you cherish yourself, or else—"

He pulled me into a hug. With an emotionless expression on his face, he continued threateningly, "I am not a kind

man. I will kill the people you care about if you are gone. Take it as my repayment to your Mom for saving my life.

You better take good care of yourself after you leave here."

He must have thought that I cared about the Forger brothers.

I knew that he had said all those harsh words because he was worried I would bring harm to myself.

Just as I was starting to fall into my thoughts, Merlin's voice rang out again. "Are you doing this because of last night

—"

"I really have something to do," I quickly interrupted him. "I will come and meet you again when I find time."

"Alright, it is all up to you," he carefreely answered.

After the call ended, I was bored out of my mind when I decided to go on Twitter for a quick scroll. The third

trending topic—Renee Felix's New Boo—immediately caught my eyes then.

Confused, I clicked into the link, only to freeze when I saw the video embedded under the article.