*Kat’s POV
I pulled away from Carol and offered her a small smile. Now a little task remains.
I turned to Ryder and walked to be near him. He softly smiled at me as I teared up.
I threw myself in his arms and tightly hugged him.
“You had helped me in every step I faltered, yet I doubted you.” I cried.
“Kat, all that I have done was so that I could be with you peacefully. I knew not knowing the truth would have haunted us all through our lives. And investigations if together would have brought us to our demise.” He whispered, I could hear him tearing up as well. This distance was not just badly affecting me but him as well.
“Every day, Jesus! Every minute, I have missed you. And all those minutes your broken expression on that day had pierced me. And each time I felt that excruciating pain, I wanted to end all these pretending or at least call you.” He whispered.
“Yet you didn’t, you even blocked me!” I cried.
“It wasn’t me. When the pain had been too much, I was about to call you, but Neo took my phone from me saying ‘your office phone which by the way I am monitoring is enough for you’.” He said in a deeper voice trying to imitate him.
“He didn’t even sound like that!” Amanda exclaimed.
“Wait you knew?” I asked turning around to look at her quickly that I had to hold onto Ryder for a second for the dizziness to pass. Once it did I looked at her shocked.
It was she who told me, Ryder must have blocked me that’s why the call isn’t forwarding.
“She was there in my office with Neo and was the one who suggested the idea to take my phone.” Ryder complained.
“I am going to see you briefly after this.” I glared at her,
“Tattletale.” She scoffed, “That is if you remember me.” She smirked.
“The reasons to remember you ‘very clearly’ are being revealed right now.”
“Calm down. She was only helping us two.” Ryder breathed in my ear that for a second I forgot I was crying and was shocked.
But just as quickly the reasons came back and I turned to glare at him.
“Oh you are not scot free either.” I grumbled.
“I know. And I am willing to spend next decades trying to make it up to you, even if it was not my fault.” He said seriously.
“You don’t apologize that way. You clearly should read my books.” I commented.
“I have.”
“Then you haven’t learnt- Wait what?” I shrieked.
“When you left. The house was lonely. It didn’t feel like home anymore. But one place felt close to home. It was your library. Finding that your books were still there, was the hope I had been holding onto. That you would return one day.”
When I left I had completely forgotten about my books. Though weeks later when I remembered I didn’t have guts to return to collect them.
Or at least that’s what I had been telling myself.
Though in reality I too had hoped one day I would return, to be reading in the library not to pack.
“And each time I missed you, I found an effective way to lessen the pain, was to create scenarios where I would be telling you the dialogues like your book boyfriends did to grovel like ‘Your are my sunshine,’ which you are. But no amount of practise prepared me for the real confrontation. I forgot all the words that I had prepared.” He huffed.
“But I want to spend many years with you trying to learn from your book boyfriends, while trying to willingly accept them into our lives.”
“It’s perfect.” Amanda screeched, making me and Ryder turn towards her.
“And you ruined it.” I said.
But what she said was true. It was Perfect.
And soon my happy moment came to an end when we heard the groaning sound.
We all turned to the man we tied into the chair I was in. About whom I honestly completely had forgotten about.
We all started walking towards him to know the complete truth but not before doing something.
I turned towards Ryder making him stop as well.
“Your practise did pay off.” I whispered to him before standing on my toes to give him a quick kiss on his lips with a promise to never let this man go ever again.
“Ugh!” Nathaniel groaned again.
I took Amanda’s chair and turned it around to sit in front of him.
“Hi Nathaniel. How are you? Isn’t that head pain great?” I asked. Now it’s my turn to give him what he gave me.
Might be childish but it makes me happy,
And one should do what makes them happy right?
“So let’s continue our truth telling session right?” I mocked.
“Go to hell.” He spits.
“I don’t know if I will go there but I do know that you definitely will. Okay so. Let’s start with what you want to know. See I am nice so let’s start with what you want to know. See I am nice right? I am returning the favour you gave me.” I said to which they snickered making Nathaniel glare at all of us. Though he was glaring at Carol more than what should have been safe.
“You must be enjoying this, right Carol?” He smirked evilly. If he starts emotionally blackmailing her, he has another thing coming from me.
“Don’t you want your family alive? Huh Carol?” He snickered making me freeze in shock.
Jesus! How can I forget to ask her about her family?
But the hit that had Nathaniel spit blood made me come back to my senses.
Of course he thought about all that.
“You really think I am that stupid to leave any loophole for you to escape.” He asked while hitting him again.
“While you had Carol kidnapped, the first thing I did was to make sure her family was safe before I set on to save her.” He grinned.
“Isn’t my baby just amazing?” I chimed in.
“Of course . I had to make sure when you have brought him out, that all the traps are set to properly lock him.” He said making me all gooey.
“Thank you.” I said getting all emotional again. He easily could have taken things into his hands and would have done it better than I did. Yet he let ne deal with my problems while making sure I didn’t fall when my steps faltered.
“Ugh!! Kill me now.” Nathaniel groaned.
“Oh! Don’t worry we will.” I replied.
Seeing him all tied up like I and Amanda was made me feel safe. Also happy with the fact that I could finally be done with all these revenge stuffs.
Oh! I almost forgot. I received something from him, too much that I had wished then to return. I slapped him twice as hard returning what he gave me. We should never just receive things we should gift them back as well.
Petty. But I am loving this.
“Okay now. Lets get to business right. Lets get this done as fast as possible to save all of our time right?”