Chapter 37: Chapter 37
CRAIG'S POV.
I was devastated by the time I went back to my hotel room in the country side.
I had asked Whitney to tell me where her mother was taking her, since she told me, when I called, that they would be going out, but I never thought that I was going to find that man with her.
I wanted to take Jade's advise and come to her again, but what I saw, only confirms that she has actually moved on with that guy.
I had planned to tell the guy to fuck off, but she looks really happy, holding him so close. And even though I am very sad about what I have seen, all I want is her happiness, and that is what I will focus on.
If I knew he was the one taking them out, I wouldn't have shown my face at all, but I was thinking, showing up at the beach, with Mary and Whitney playing, I could have some time to speak with her again.
I didn't need any guard watching her to find out what was going on between she and her colleague, it is obvious, they are an item.
Jade knew I was in town, and though he had asked me to come to his house, instead of a hotel, I refused. I didn't want anyone getting funny ideas.
I stared long at my phone, I wanted to call her and wish her happiness in her choice, but that would mean giving up, which I was not ready to.
"She cannot just meet someone and fall inlove? I asked out loud.
She herself had told me I am the kind of man she would want and in her next world, if she has a man like me, she would be glad. I couldn't stay anymore, I needed to leave, and so, I left the hotel that same evening back to my house, but I never got the image off my mind. She saw me, but she didn't care. She didn't even want to know why I was there, and she definitely doesn't care about how I was feeling.
The next day, I had a terrible day, because I kept making mistakes, and I transferred agression on my staffs. I made them work extra time and they all had grumpy faces until the day was over, but my day got worse, when on my way home, Edward stopped me outside the apple building. I didn't know what he wanted, but then I guess he too have come to apologize for the role he played in sending Samantha away, just like James did. Anyone who cannot correct his or her wrongs, should not bother apologizing. It is useless to me, but getting close to Edward, I noticed he didn't come to apologize, instead he came to mock me.
"How do you feel now, seeing her with another man? He asked and I made a fist. With the way my day have been, if anyone gets me angry, he could take the fall. The guards with me already noticed I was boiling, and they wanted to do something, all they need is my command, but I shook my head, stopping them.
"Well, unlike you, I want to see Samantha happy, and that is why I haven't sent the guy away, if he is the one she wants to be with, then I am fine with it".
"You really think I don't love my wife? He asked me, and I started to wonder where the tale was taking us, but somehow, I needed the distraction, so I allowed him speak.
I love my wife, I married her out of love, but then she got too engrossed in her work, and even in our intimate moment, she was always talking about you". I was shocked about that, for I never would have thought that all those years ago, Edward sees me as a threat to his marriage. She would talk about you from morning till night. She doesn't even look at me, I sensed she was drifting away, and she was.
When I heard about the rumors, I knew at that instant that the pupils and the world have seen that same thing I have been seeing, and even though I know she haven't been engaged with you sexually, it would have led to that, for she was into you. So now that she is with another man, I came to see your face, to know how you feel, maybe then, you could know why it was easy for me to ask for a divorce. And you think I am a terrible person for hitting my daughter. Well, that was because she wouldn't stop talking about her, she was asking about her all the time, without trying to understand how I feel.
I was hoping Samantha would apologize to me five years ago, tell me she is innocent and that she wouldn't do anything to hurt our marriage, but she said nothing, she just walked away. I kept following her, watching how she was living, and it occured to me that she would rather be somewhere else, instead of with me and our daughter".
"You are wrong Edward, you didn't understand her". I told him, but he only laughed.
"You still want to support her? Well done then, support her all you want, fight for her all you want, but that will not stop the fact that she is with another man.
When she started living with you, I was worried at first that she must have been in love with you, but now, the way she looks in the arms of that colleague of hers, I think it is now, that she actually fell inlove.
She looks happier, more beautiful, and very robust.
If I didn't know, I would have said that she had been seeing this guy before now.
I have moved on, and I wish you do too, why I am here, is to ask that we become friends, and partners. We have both suffered the same fate, from the same woman, we could console eachother by becoming friends and shocking her". I didn't have to think about it, and I was no fool, for I could tell that he didn't come to ask that I be his friend, he came to mock me, so I shocked him with my response.
"If you have moved on, and given up on Samantha, I haven't, so I cannot be friends with you, when I know that it would hurt her, if she finds out.
I can help you, if you need my help, but do not consider me a friend.
like I said before, if Samantha is happy, then I am happy, but I cannot give up on being there for her". With that, I got into my car, and Paul drove past him.