*Kat’s Pov
I opened my eyes feeling my soul being left from my body.
I feel relieved that the weight is now off me but along with the relief I feel immense sadness to the possibility of there might never be us in the future.
It breaks me to know how the one thing my dad wanted me to find has led to the destroying of one thing that made me happy and forget the misery after my parent’s death.
At this moment I feel all the emotions coming together that I feel no problem in saying about their death.
I guess everything ends between us and the life for me is just going to be started. And this time I won’t have Ryder to help me through.
“How did you know?” I ask starting the conversation to the inevitable.
“Fortunate for me you left the computer screen unlocked after cracking the code open.” He said with no emotions. I kept my head down not being able to bear his coldness.
For the first time I curse and am happy for my forgetfulness. Happy because I don’t have to tell him to know. Cursing myself because it led him to know.
I just nodded and stood with no words to say feeling drained out.
I now have no guilt to torment me. I only have a dad’s laptop that’s taunting me for the misery I had been avoiding ever since they left.
“Why?” He started with a tremble to his voice to which I lifted my head up to look at up. I saw a flicker of sadness in his eyes. I saw his tear falling down much to his annoyance. His sadness made me tear up more. But it was just for a second before his eyes changed to being emotionless again. “Why did you not tell me?” He continued, this time with no emotion.
“Would it change anything?” I asked giving him a sad smile. To which he just shook his head and turned his head away.
I saw more tears falling from his eyes again. He released a deep sigh before he turned his back to me heading towards the door.
“Katherine” He said, his voice hoarse. I just closed my eyes as the tears is building up in me. I am feeling a huge lump in my throat being formed. From his tears the sadness is hitting me 10 times. The feeling I had been repressing has come back to surface at full force. And the feeling was made worse when I heard him say my name fully. He never has used my full name other than when he was angry playfully.
Now hearing my name from his mouth has made me hate it, when I have always loved it when he called my name. The nicknames he used. I wish he would call me Kitty Kat one more time. The nickname I hated the most I wished he called me one more time. The fact that he would never call my name lovingly or that he would never call me with the nicknames he had made for me kills me.
“You know how this is going to go.” He continued, to which I opened my eyes and looked at him as he was turning around with his head down and his hands held in a tight fist.
“I can’t be with a person who is the reason my parents died.” He continued making my heart break in the process. But I never did anything it was that cursed company I am unfortunately heir of.
“I would never be able to love you the same” He finished as he looked up at me, his eyes sad with tears in them but held anger as well. I nodded and exhaled as tears that never ended fell down my cheeks. With a dejected look towards me, he left his house shutting the door with a loud bang.
I broke down on the floor as he left, the whole time in my mind was his final look to me. That loud bang was consistent with my heart breaking. But as I felt my heart break, all the pieces that were left, went to him as he left me. Though it is only possible metaphorically, I felt empty. Was it my heart? I don’t know. The one thing I know is that the heart in me, is now only responsible for giving me life.
His last look is going to be imprinted on my mind for years to come. It told me what we both knew from the moment we read dad’s will.
Everything between us comes to an end.
*Ryder’s Pov
As I closed the door with a loud bang, I lean on the door and closed my eyes letting the tears fall down hearing her wails. Its irony how just in the morning I closed the door trying to make no sound as to not wake her and now I had put everything in me to shut the door to let her feel something if she does at all.
I stay there for some more time making my brain accustomed to her cries before I stood straight and walked towards my car. I made sure that my brain will no more be swayed by her while I left my heart, responsible for feelings, with her.
I start the car and drive towards my company to stay there till I make sure that Katherine had moved out of my house. The same house I felt was home is no nothing but a structure to me. She made it a home. But.
Everything between us comes to an end.
Except.
Revenge.