Its Too Late To Forgive

Henry was shocked to hear what Carson said. He couldn't react at all. He felt sudden pain in his chest as if someone has stabbed him brutally.

His eyes were watery and blood red by now. He turned and walked towards Bella without speaking a single word more to Carson.

After meeting Bella again for so many months, this was the first time when he was actually looking at her carefully. He sat kneeling on the floor near her bed. Henry never thought that a person would change so much after just four years.

The small and exquisite face at the time became a little unrecognizable now, and the dull skin lost its brilliance that used to be there earlier. If one look carefully then one can still find the facial features of the Evans family, but it is no longer the original form.

Puffy eye bags, messy eyebrows, dry lips, rough skin… only four years! Just as Henry was about to touch Bella's lips, the person on the hospital bed moved slightly, turned her head, and the bangs covering her forehead slid down, revealing the scars covered by it.

Henry's eyes were sharp for an instant. He curled his brow and looked at the hideous scar for a long time. He couldn’t help but stretch out his hand to touch that scar. As soon as

he touched the scar on Bella's forehead, the woman on the bed woke up.

She subconsciously avoided his hand in horror!

'How could he be here?

What does he want to do??'

She was still in the illusion that she was at The Wild Hunt club. Henry's showed a different emotion.

'Is she trying to hide from me?'

As if not convinced, Henry stretched out his hand towards Bella again. Bella almost subconsciously picked up the quilt, and suddenly retracted her head into the quilt and moved back as much as she could.

Henry looked at the woman who was shrouded in the quilt, his face was cold and scary. This damn woman is really hiding from me, he thought. He was watching motionlessly at the ball huddled that Bella formed inside the quilt, it was vaguely visible that the quilt was shaking.

After Bella hid in the quilt, she began to regret it. Why did she hide in the quilt? If at all Henry wants to trouble or humiliate her, it will be useless for her to hide in outer space also. What’s the use of hiding in the quilt?

Henry said with a “huh”, and pulled off Bella's quilt with his big hands. His voice was suddenly cold and bitter, his thin lips closed, and he slowly asked,

“Are you trying to hide from me?”

“No!” Bella hurriedly said,

“I did not hide from you Mr. Jackson Sir."

Lie! She is simply hiding from him!

“What’s wrong with your voice? I have been noticing that since we have met again your voice has specifically become hoarse and rough."

“Sick and sore throat sir.”

Bella lowered her eyelids and refused to say more.

“Are you afraid of me?”

Bella's eyelids twitched and no longer refuted. The man stood by her hospital bed and raised his eyebrows slowly, making his heart even more unhappy.

Suddenly leaning forward, Henry put one arm on the mattress under Bella's horrified sight, and suddenly narrowed the distance between the two. With the other hand stretched out towards Bella. Bella retracted subconsciously, and Henry said calmly,

“Don’t move.”

Seeing Bella really behaving well, Henry moved his fingers away from Bella’s bangs, and touched the scar on her forehead. Bella’s entire body was sore and painful hence she couldn't move alot.

Henry touched Bella's scar with his finger, and pressed his lips without leaving a trace. He asked unhappily,

“Where did this scar come from?”

Bella glanced at Henry in front of him… hypocritical! Doesn’t he know where it came from? But she still replied,

“I got hurt sir.”

Thanks to you… She added another sentence in her heart. His finger rubbed the scar, rubbed it again and again, and then it went down more and more, touching her lips. The touch he felt from his fingertips was dry, peeling, and pale.

neck. Her small face was held by his big palm. Henry's thumb was rubbing against such dull set of lips. It was strange that

swallowed her unceremoniously. He was kissing her harshly as if he was venting all his anger , his emotions , his love, his hatred in it. He left her only after he heard someone knocking at the cabin's gate. It was Carson, he had come along with his team to

A lot was running in his mind. Initially he was just thinking about all that she said earlier in the booth and now he was more frustrated and angry by what Carson has just said regarding the gang rape. He subconsciously banged his

Inside Bella's cabin -

you

I am not sick.

she addressed him. Even though they were not that close in the past but he always liked her and she always playfully called

worry , I'll just be performing a routine

"I'm not sick."

check. There's

I'm really not

head and looked at

Bella, what are you

heart stopped beating for

sick, I just don't like hospitals,

chin towards

tell him in front

to be known by other. Even more, she doesn't want it to be mentioned in the presence of

you know…oh…

how Carson knew about her missing

and suddenly said

you will

if things were really as he had guessed, then Carson looked at Bella with pity in his eyes. She was really in a sad

some things? May be

thinks that no matter how much Henry Jackson hates Bella

now and THIS IS WHAT I DESERVED.”

seems to have reached the end of her life. She was lifeless, like an old crone who had lived for a century and reached the end of her life.

Carson was shocked!

he had seen her kneeling humblely to Henry right in front of him, without a shred

and low self-esteem was practically oozing out and revealing in her every

kidney! and all you can say is "it's all

many suitors. She was also the object of many famous and young people’s admiration. All her suitors were from esteemed families. But this woman now..... He only thought that three years had only changed her appearance. He didn’t expect it to be hollowed out. It seemed that it had emptied

everything that happened is really

look at Carson, repeating like a robot she said

I

was so stiff that she didn’t look like a living person. Carson's eyes were full of disappointment. It turned out

going to check you

business, and Bella is not

I’m afraid of hurting you. Or, do you

last sentence completely restrained

of 39.8 degrees Celsius. What’s wrong with you? You have a fever and what were you doing at that type of club? Don’t you know your physical condition? You are not a normal to begin with, but you dare get engaged in such activities. Do you

his childhood friend. This girl grew up calling him Carsi. If Herny was not in scene, either he or Kevin would have probably married her. Even

after all she has killed someone they knew too, but it was just pity for her and past affection and

his things, and walked out after instructing the nurses to

who was smoking outside the ward.

torture her anymore. She is…not very well. Her.... her body is not In a

knew about Bella's physical condition so Carson decided to change his

come and re examine her after a

this Carson took his things and left. After a while

from her hand in one go. There was not a single expression of pain on her face and neither she looked scared of the needle. He remembered in the past, even to take out a sample or

ones that was inside the paper bag and was about to leave the hospital. All through out this time, she was so engrossed

saw Henry standing there with a sullen face. She got scared and moved two steps backward. She lowered her head and after few seconds, gathered her courage and started to walk outside. Henry blocked her way. She tried to go from the other side but just then Henry shifted his body also to

Atlast Bella spoke,

let me

you want to go?"

I need

to go back to

to know everything that has happened with her in last 4 years but she was refusing to speak to him. She was running away from him.

looked down at Bella, hesitated for a moment then suddenly bent