Bye, My Irresistible Love

Caroline’s POV:

I called Charles immediately.I needed clarification for what I just heard on the news.

"Hello?" The voice was soft and feminine.

Definitely not Charles.

Even without asking for her name, a part of my mind was well aware of whom I was speaking with.

It was Nevaeh, the woman that was just announced on television as Charles’ future wife.

"Please give the phone to Charles."

My lips’ pursed and I fought to keep my voice calm.

"I’m sorry but I can’t do that right now.Charles is in the shower, so he won’t be able to speak with you.I’m his fiancee, so you can tell me what you want and I will make sure he gets the message…"

The rest of her words faded away, a loud buzzing sound was the only thing I was cognizant of.

Blinking rapidly, I tried to calm myself but it was becoming a losing battle.

The possibility that Nevaeh was lying wasn’t lost on me.

She was probably trying to create a misunderstanding between Charles and I, but I also had to seriously consider the fact that she might be telling the truth. For the past few days, I had been battling insomnia.

Most nights I had to take sedatives before I was able to fall asleep.

Even when the sedatives worked and I slept off, my slumber was always restless and riddled with nightmares.

And the worst part was, I was now using a higher dosage of the sedatives before it would have any effect on me.

My symptoms didn’t end with the lack of sleep, unfortunately.I also had a case of severe migraines.

Not only that, but my stomach cramped a lot and the pain was so bad that I ended up retching on several occasions.

But the Wilson Group was in a more difficult state than me.

The company was suffering from internal and external problems, so my health issues would have to be ignored for the time being.

Simon called and asked me to meet him at the cafe.

After dabbing a concealer over the dark circles beneath my eyes, I pronounced myself ready to go.

Simon was already at the cafe, waiting for me.

He wore a dark suit and white shirt beneath it.

The suit brought out the color of his eyes and made him look more handsome His every move was suave and elegant, precisely the type of quality most women sought in a man.

Eventually, I made my way to him and plopped into the seat across from him.

"I’m here now.What do you want to tell me?" I asked without preamble, irritation lacing my tone.

"Caroline, you seem to have lost a lot of weight.Have you been skipping your meals?"

Simon’s eyes were wide with concern.I looked away from him without answering.

Our coffee was served a few seconds later.

My stomach churned when I took a sip of my coffee.

A weary frown creased my forehead and I glanced at my wristwatch, "We have to go back to the company and deal with work, so just get to the point."

Simon paused with the cup halfway to his mouth.

A wry smile twisted his lips.

"Caroline, do we have to be like this? I know I did something wrong before…"

"As I said, I have never blamed you.If you don’t have anything else to say, then I’ll be on my way," I interrupted Simon in a low voice and stood up to leave.

"Caroline! Charles is about to marry another woman.He will abandon you again for the sake of business interests.Such a man doesn’t deserve your love at all,"

Simon declared anxiously, his firm grip trapping my hand in his.I shook his hand off and sat back in the chair.

The corners of my mouth curled up in a bitter smile as I clenched my fists tightly.

It was a good thing I was sitting down because the force of the pain that hit my heart like a speeding truck would have knocked me off my feet.

"This is between me and him.It has nothing to do with you."

My voice was very even, not a single trace of the pain I felt evident in my tone.

"Caroline, don’t you understand? It doesn’t matter whether he will really marry this unknown woman or not.You will always have to fight for his attention with other women.When you left him a year ago, he was left unsatisfied, and that’s why he is being kind and doing everything he can to get you back.But once you are in his pocket, of what value will you be to him?"

"Enough! Stop it!"

His words rubbed salt in my wound and I just couldn’t listen to one more word.

But I shut him up too late.His words had already hit that mark and I was left bleeding from the force of their hit.

forward and I had to close my eyes tightly to keep from bursting

love we shared turned out to be nothing but

breath, anger and betrayal surging

are you crying for

face, his voice

away to avoid his hand it has nothing to do

complete my sentence, I saw something move in the

attracted my attention and I tilted my

towards us, looking

to push Simon away from me, but before I could do it, Simon’s shoulder was

grunt, but Charles wasn’t done

back and punched Simon square

was so sudden that Simon had no time to

side forcefully and he staggered back from the strength

into the partition behind him, and it splintered into several pieces as Simon tried to

deter Charles who was still advancing on Simon, his face clouded over with

"Stop!"

panic making my

Charles didn’t stop.

over, he punched Simon without any

bruised and with blood rolling down his split lip, Simon looked like he would have fallen to the

energy from, but he

whistled and encouraged them with their sounds, clearly

them made an attempt to stop

and grabbed

"Charles, stop!"

neither heard my screams nor

nearly lost my balance as I stumbled.I would have hit the edge

my presence long enough to realize that I

and he

you crazy? Why did you rush into the middle of our

the veins on his

barely left his mouth when Simon ran towards Charles and punched him

to dodge the punch and he

battered, with Simon looking

and ! grabbed my bag before

when Charles grabbed my wrist and stopped me from leaving on my as torme Instead of releasing me, charles tightened

to a matter of strength, I was

though I struggled, I had no choice but

march until

me to face

go? Are you having

you talking about? An affair? Simon and I are talking about

angry that I felt dizzy and struggled out

Charles sneered in disgust.

own eyes.He touched your face

havoc on

stomach twisted savagely and my world spun as a truly awful feeling spread through

the past

on the days I

organs were trying to shove their way out through my

a hangover, I didn’t feel

of water appeared in my face all of

accepted the bottle of water from Charles

the after taste of

the nausea

nonsense are you talking about? When did he

with

my face.His eyes were full of

were with me, did you actually think of him

slapped his face hard and clenched my teeth even

Nevaeh? Why

That news was made up by the reporters.Nevaeh

loudly, cutting

you? I’m really tired of having to deal with the constant stream of women.I don’t want to be in a relationship with you anymore! I just want to get the Wilson Group back on

pushed Charles away, got out of the car, slammed the door and

bag aside, curled up on the

that had been suppressed for a long time swept over me again.I rushed

wave of dizziness hit me and I nearly

This was getting worse.

to collapse at such a critical time.I had no other option

I received a call

million dollars in our company, but

head and said, "If the company can’t

the Moore Group will definitely find

Asta reminded me.

matter.I’ll handle them.Just

freshened up briefly and went to the hospital

the doctor

are you

was still flat and hard.I found it hard to