Winter Wonderland

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Chapter 0455

"Harper?" his voice calls me.

"Oh, sorry, I got lost in thought for a moment." I shake my head to clear my mind. "Yes, I'm done packing."

"Good, let's go then."

An hour later, we were seated in Gabriel's private jet. This time though, I was accompanying him to sign a business deal.

okay? Do you need anything? I can get the hostess to bring you whatever you want." Gabriel says the moment his

what I meant? He's

to make me happy. In fact, it was the opposite. He never cared about my needs or

that's why I'm having a hard time. It's like he's my

I need something

head, he then

lean back against the plush leather chair and settle more comfortably. I didn't want to think. I didn't want to drive

the pain. It takes a lot of energy to hate someone, that's why, around a year after being divorced, I let go of the bitterness. I didn't want it to taint

to remember the heartache, so I tried burying all of them. I tried numbing myself. Lilly was an exact replica of her father. That was

so used to pushing away thoughts of him and the pain that I became numb. For a long time, he didn't exist in my world. Not

the walls I had around myself. With that, came the resurgence of the feelings

I don't hate Gabriel. I don't think I ever could. My hesitancy comes from the remnants of the pain he caused me. The echoes of the hurt he inflicted. The phantoms of a long-ago pain. Phantoms that wam me to tread

outside. Damn it, I needed to get a grip, but I feel

back and study his profile, only to find him

you ever been in love?" I

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