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.

dull set of lips. It was strange that it was not

, 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

cigarette for himself. 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 -

are you

sick. Can

way she addressed him. Even though they were

just be

"I'm not sick."

check. There's no

I'm really not

suddenly raised his head and looked

“Hey Bella, what

heart stopped beating for

“I just… i am not sick, I just don't like hospitals, that's

chin towards the

“ Do you want me to call him in, and tell him

other. Even more, she doesn't want it to be mentioned

you

asking how Carson knew

and suddenly said

will

vaguely understood something. But, if things were really as he had

misunderstood some things? May be some things

thinks that no matter how much Henry Jackson hates Bella Evans, he

past now and THIS IS WHAT I DESERVED.”

woman, who was once the most assertive and confident woman of city A, at this moment, she 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

Carson was shocked!

humblely to Henry right in front of him, without a shred of dignity. But right now when he was facing this woman, that feeling was

lowliness and low self-esteem was practically oozing out and revealing

a kidney! and all you can say is

esteemed families. But this woman now..... He only thought that three years had only changed her

you really think that everything that happened

raised her eyes to look at Carson, repeating

“Yes, I deserve

full of disappointment. It turned

to check you up

business, and Bella is not

“You better stay still, I’m afraid of hurting you. Or, do

sentence completely restrained

club? Don’t you know your physical condition? You are not a normal to begin with, but you dare get

everything that he said was also once 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 if they couldn’t

now, after all she has

and walked out after instructing the nurses to

say much to Henry, who was smoking outside the

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

Henry knew about Bella's physical condition so Carson decided to

and re examine her after a while.”

things and left. After a while Henry entered Bella's

he saw Bella was 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 remembered in the past, even to take out a sample or take a vaccine, Bella used to run around the whole hospital and today she casually took out

to leave the hospital. All through out this time, she was so engrossed in her own thoughts that she did not sense

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

Atlast Bella spoke,

let

you want to go?"

my work sir. I need to go

want to go back to the Wild Hunt

He wanted answers from Bella and Bella seems to be avoiding him. He wanted to know everything that has happened with her in last 4 years but

for a moment then suddenly bent over