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.

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 rose. The pale skinned lips

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

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

Inside Bella's cabin -

are you feeling

... I... I am not sick. Can you let me

they were not that close in the past but he always

be

"I'm not sick."

There's

need. I'm really

his head and looked at

what

beating for

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

his chin towards the

want me to call him in, and tell him in

suddenly! This is a thing she doesn't want to be known by other. Even more, she doesn't want it to be mentioned in the presence

do you

how Carson knew about her

and suddenly said

you will know”

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

misunderstood some things? May be some things are

no matter how much Henry Jackson hates Bella Evans, he won’t be that

all over. It's in the past now and THIS IS WHAT I DESERVED.”

reached the end of her life. She was lifeless, like an old

Carson was shocked!

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

self-esteem was practically oozing out

all you can say is "it's all in

her suitors were from esteemed families. But

you really think that everything that

to look at Carson,

I deserve

were full of disappointment. It turned out that, that Bella had really disappeared

to check you up now, please cooperate.”

his business, and Bella is not allowed

I’m afraid of hurting you. Or, do you want me to call Henry

sentence completely restrained

fever and what were you doing at that type of club? Don’t

this woman. Right now the woman who nodded to everything that he said was also once his childhood friend. This girl grew up calling him

Bella right now, after all she has killed someone they knew too, but it was

up, took his things, and walked out after instructing the nurses

didn’t say much to Henry, who was smoking outside the

very well. Her.... her body is not

about Bella's physical condition so Carson decided to

come and re examine

and left. After a while Henry

on her face and neither she looked scared

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

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

Atlast Bella spoke,

please let me

do you want to

my work sir. I need

to go back to the

happened with her in last 4 years but she was refusing to speak to him. She

hesitated for a moment then suddenly bent over and picked her