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.

didn’t dare to move casually, she stiffly leaned back her 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 it was not as matte and tender as jelly, and not as blooming as a coquettish

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

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

Inside Bella's cabin -

are you feeling

... I... I am not sick. Can

though they were not that close in the past but he

, I'll just be performing

"I'm not sick."

check. There's no harm in

need. I'm really not

suddenly raised his head and

Bella, what

heart stopped beating for

sick, I just don't like hospitals,

chin

him in, and tell him in front of you that you are

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

you know…oh…

Carson

and suddenly said

will know”

Bella and he vaguely understood something. But, if things were really as he had guessed, then Carson looked at Bella with pity in

might have misunderstood some things? May be some things are not as same as what

how much Henry Jackson hates Bella Evans, he won’t be

now and THIS IS WHAT I DESERVED.”

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

Carson was shocked!

of him, without a shred of dignity. But right now when he was facing this woman, that feeling was even

self-esteem was practically oozing

kidney! and all you

face from back then. Back then, The Bella Evans had 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 her of something deep

really think that everything that happened is really what you

look at Carson, repeating like a

“Yes, I

full of disappointment. It turned out that, that

to check you

to do his business, and Bella is

of hurting you. Or, do you

sentence

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,

calling him Carsi. If Herny was not in scene,

feelings about Bella right now, after all she has killed someone they knew too,

things, and walked out after instructing the nurses

to Henry, who was smoking outside the ward. But just

“Don’t torture her anymore. She is…not very well. Her.... her body is not

about Bella's physical

and re examine

left. After a while Henry entered Bella's

standing next to her iv drip set and while he was watching her, she removed the needle 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

the ones that was inside the paper bag and was about to leave the hospital. All through out this

she 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

Atlast Bella spoke,

let me

want to

I need to go

to go

that has happened with her in last 4 years but she was refusing

looked down at Bella, hesitated for a moment