I stood watching as Isabella left with the kids, not being able to stop them from going. Her words had left me frozen. She didn’t love me, not even in the slightest way. No, I couldn’t believe that but then again, one thing I was sure of was she didn’t want me in the kids’ life nor her life.
” Sir… What should we do? Isabella just left,” my secretary felt the need to remind me that Isabella had gone.
” You and Carlos should drop off the things the twins picked out at their home, call me another driver,” I instructed.
” Yes sir,” she bowed before taking out her phone and calling another of my drivers to come over and have me picked. When I thought today was going to favour me in terms of Isa, looks like I was the only one seeing it that way.
Getting to my hotel room, I sprawled on the bed as I drowned myself in my thoughts. Things shouldn’t have turned out like this, Isa had changed. Normally, I would have been able to trigger the old flame we had but she was harder to reach than I thought.
” Can we come in sir?” The voice of my personal assistant Carlos came.
” Yes,” I barely said.
” We have delivered the goods to Isabella’s house, is there any other thing you’d like us to do?” he asked.
” No, not really,”
” Sir, about Isabella… What are we going to do since this didn’t work out?” My secretary questioned.
” There’s barely anything I can do to be involved in my kids lives,” I replied dispirited.
” But there’s absolutely no way she doesn’t still have feelings for you, maybe you could try another approach in wooing her,” Carlos suggested.
” I doubt she does anymore, the only thing I’m sure she feels towards me is resentment. She probably hates me the most in the world,”
” So are you just going to give up?” My secretary asked in a worried tone.
” I can’t but I don’t know what else to do,” I sighed as I sat up. Suddenly, a thought flashed through my mind, ” I just thought of taking the kids with or without her permission. After all, they are mine and I’m more capable of taking care of them. If I take them away from her, I won’t need to worry about never seeing them and I know if I file for custody with my influence, there’s no way I’d lose,” this was an ingenious plan, why didn’t I think about it earlier?
” It is a good plan but…,” Carlos exchanged glances with my secretary. What was up with them?
” But what?” I asked with twisted brows.
” It’s a great plan if all you care about is your children but if you still love her and want to get back together with her, then it’s a horrible idea,” my secretary finished up what Carlos left off.
” But don’t you think that if I have the kids, she would have no choice but to accept me for the sake of staying with them? I think it’s a perfect way to kill two birds with one stone,” I grinned in delight of my thoughts.
” Sir, that’s not how things work,” Carlos corrected my point of view.
” Why not?” I questioned.
” That’s simply because the most important thing to a mother is her kids,” my secretary went.
” Isn’t that the point I just made?” I interrupted.
” You’re still not getting it, sir. If you take the children from her, she would hate you for life and nothing you do would make her love you. She might as well because of your decision be compelled to stay with you but that’s the most that can happen, she would never love you after that. So if you go with this option, you will totally kill any chance of you being together with her, unless you don’t plan on doing so,” she adjusted her glasses.
” Yes, she’s right. We can’t stop you from doing what you want but you should at least be aware of the consequences of your decision. If you only plan on taking the kids and being part of their lives, then you can do so but if you want to get back with her, then that’s a fatal option,” Carlos exemplified.
” So what should I do now?” I asked frustrated.
” Let’s just stick to the old way of winning a girl’s heart,” he pointed out.
” Yes, by gaining her trust,” she completed.
” But she won’t let me get close to her easily, especially with James around,” James was going to be a huge threat to our reconciliation, I knew but getting him to stay away from Isabella would not be easy. It’s not like I could pay him off, he wasn’t the type. Argh!! I was running out of options.
” You don’t need to, sir. A girl notices the most minute details, like if a guy is mature, gives her personal space when she needs it, respects her decisions, e. t. c.”
” Seems like you’re really knowledgeable,” I complimented.
” Yes? Not really sir, I’m just… Just…,” I placed a hand on her shoulder to calm her nerves.
” There’s nothing wrong with being informed and I wouldn’t mind learning what I can from you,” I admitted my ignorance.
” I’ll do my best, sir,” she said relieved.
” So back to what we were saying… Does this mean that I have to give her time off now? Like I shouldn’t visit her soon?”
” Yes, it makes you unpredictable. It also makes her think that you’re becoming more mature, no one can tolerate an adult behaving like a…,” she covered her mouth as her eyes widened. She was going to indirectly say I was immature, maybe I really was.
” I’m so sorry, sir. It’s not what you think it is, I never meant to insult you,” she frantically apologized as she entered into panic mood.
” It’s alright, maybe you aren’t that wrong,” I said lying back down on the bed.
” Sir?” The both of them asked in shock as if they were unsure of what I had just said.
” The both of you are dismissed for today, I want some lone time,”
” We’ll leave right away, sir,” they bowed slightly.
” I’m sorry once more for my slip of tongue, I really didn’t mean it,” I knew she was afraid that she angered me but honestly, I wasn’t angered. Her words made me sober up, maybe Isabella looked at me like I was immature. Maybe to her, I was no different from a spoilt child who didn’t know just when to stop.
It was tiring thinking of the thoughts she had about me, turning to my side of my bed, I spotted our marriage certificate on the bedside table. Picking it up, I scanned it as if it was the first time I held it.
I kept questioning myself, if I had not accepted Nina back into my life, I and Isabella would still have been together with our kids. Why was I rash back then? I shouldn’t have let go of Isabella then, I should have known her worth better.
In the end, I made the foolish mistake of letting her go and now, I know that love doesn’t wait for anyone.