It was day 32nd, I had completely withdrawn from writing novels. It wasn’t like I didn’t want to pursue my career in this, but whenever I would open the file and stare at it, I would end up writing something completely different from what was mentioned in the outline. It happened for five more Chapters before I decided to stop writing!
This was the second day since I had stopped updating.
It didn’t matter anyway. That novel was meant to be dedicated to Vampire, and since that guy didn’t want to see me, it was better not to do anything that might remind me of him. So I ended up stopping the updates. I logged out of the account on webpad and removed it from the bookmarks.
That website would still be engraved in my memories, but it was better to remove it completely from the browser history and bookmarks. That at least gave me a little bit of satisfaction. I pursed my lips and continued to remove the traces of ever opening the website and creating the account. I also logged out of the email that I had specially created for the website, and even deleted the offline version of the contract that I had signed with Vampire.
I still had lingering feelings in my heart that made me want to immediately leave everything and beg him to come back. But at the same time, I didn’t want to destroy my ego and go to him just because I missed him. After all, why would someone who was married and even had a rich girlfriend come back to me?
I didn’t have any authority to call him back. I wasn’t even his proper friend, just a writer who was working under him. Both of us never finalized our relationship, which itself was a mistake! So even if I would approach his house, what would i say to make him come back?
Should I just go on and on about how unfair it was for Vampire to approach me even when I was married? Or should I just confess that I wanted to divorce my husband and marry Vampire? Clearly, none of these were possible because even the editor was married, and he showed no indication to leave his wife.
So I was left with the only thing I could do, and that was to ignore my heart’s desire to forget all about him. It was better if I hadn’t had any relationship with him in the first place!
After thinking of this, I sighed and closed the computer and went to the kitchen. This morning, my husband woke up late and gave me a morning kiss. Even though I didn’t feel anything from that as I should have as his wife, I didn’t say anything. I continued to work robotically as if nothing had happened. As if I hadn’t cried earlier and confessed to Lewis that loving Vampire was my greatest mistake.
Then he got to the kitchen and prepared food without complaining. After that, he went out to search for a new job.
Right now, I was free and I didn’t have any work to do. But I still didn’t update. I ate the food and left my house for a walk. I didn’t want to stay here at all!
What I didn’t know was that when I didn’t update the Chapter for today, I got one after another comments that urged me to update the next Chapter. Some of the readers even cursed at me and said that they would never read my books again!
Fishreader: 99 days author, why aren’t you willing to update?! At least, put up an author’s note and tell us that you’re still alive!
Wishingwell_76: The person above stole my words! The author was diligent two days ago, and the latest Chapter was even more weird. Is the author alright?
I am a monk: Dear wishingwell_76, you are mistaken. The author only knows how to play with the reader’s emotions! Just look at the latest Chapter! Wasn’t the protagonist that editor?! Why did that person suddenly change into her husband? I bet the author herself doesn’t know what she is writing!
Grimmy: Monk, don’t just curse the author for nothing! She might be facing some serious conditions in her real life. How could you say such words to her?
I am a monk: Grimmy, don’t take the author’s side. We readers don’t pay money to just anyone for nothing. If the author has started something, he should finish it!
Lightning prince: Monk is right! The author is certainly not responsible!
And after this, one after another reader continued to leave curses in the comment section of the last Chapter. But the readers didn’t stop there. They also found a forum and complained against the author of the 99 days novel for not updating. Things grew even worse when someone from the comment section revealed the whereabouts of the author.
Riley: I know the author personally! She is the wife of one of my ex colleagues!. Here is her husband’s number!
So things were bound to get out of hand after this. In short, after Elise came back from her walk, she found her husband sitting in the living room, who was staring at his phone with a frown on his face. I was surprised to see his face and said, “When did you come back?”
“Elise, you didn’t update your novel?”
I pursed my lips. How did Lewis know about this? I knew that my husband wasn’t interested in my novel writing career. So we never talked about my novel, and he had never asked me about it in the past. But why was he suddenly talking about it? I tilted my head and continued to give him a confused glance.
Lewis sighed seeing my expression and explained, “I got many calls and messages from your readers. They are even cursing you for not updating!”
My eyes widened at that. How did they find my husband’s number? My pen name was also different from that of my real name! How could they find me so easily?!
After a moment of shock, I recovered quickly and said, “It’s like…” I was about to say Vampire’s name but held my tongue. “Whenever I try to write something, I either jot out something angst, or don’t write at all. I have lost all my motivation.”
My husband’s eyes narrowed, and for a second, I wondered if he believed my half-truth. Of course even though I had actually lost all my motivation to write, I knew that the reason behind it was Vampire. It was just that I didn’t want to talk about that person before my husband.
Still, Lewis didn’t say a word and nodded. Then he sighed and shook his head. “It’s not your fault. You don’t have motivation right? So let’s go!”
“Where?” I looked at him in confusion.
Lewis didn’t say anything but dragged me toward the bedroom and started packing bags. I stared at the scene before my eyes dumbfounded. Not only my husband didn’t scold me because he could clearly tell that I wasn’t writing only due to Vampir, but he also decided to take me out with a backpack!
Had Lewis suddenly gotten crazy?