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

I meant? He's

Gabriel ever did anything to make me happy. In fact, it was the opposite. He never cared about my needs or wants. He never

are different now, though, and that's why I'm having a hard time. It's

something I'll

then pulls out his

want to think. I didn't want

long time ago. The thing is, despite this, I still remember. My heart still remembers the pain. It takes

pain. I didn't want to remember the heartache, so I tried burying all of them. I tried numbing myself. Lilly was an exact replica of her father. That

got 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

started to destroy the walls I had around myself. With that, came the resurgence of the feelings I had tried to bury

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

head and look outside. Damn it, I needed to get a grip, but I feel myself drowning

study his profile, only to find him staring at me,

in love?" I ask out of the

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