CHAPTER 68: REVELATION.
A few days after the announcement was made, Evelyn was finding it hard to be free and even go out. Kira tried her best in hiding this piece of information from her but at least, she failed woefully. Evelyn tried calling Raphael’s number but it was either he was ignoring her call or Jeremy answering it on his behalf and this was shattering her spirit alongside faith in him.
Evelyn had never met Raphael’s family members before except his half-brother, Vegas. She had met his friends but they were rarely around so it was understandable. Now, she had no one to talk to or ask after him from. She opted to visit his company but what good would that do her? What if he did not want to see her anymore? Tom kept asking day after day to want to speak with him but she couldn’t give him a well-certified answer other than he was busy and wouldn’t be able to come.
She had never faced such a thing like this before in her entire life and adapting to it was pretty hard for her.
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“Come on, Richard. This is just small talk with my friend. It’s been a while since I have seen her.* Elizabeth persuaded him and he reluctantly followed her to chat with her friend. After his unimaginable break-up with Kira many days ago, he had turned weak and cold. He just followed his mum to her meeting place to clear his head.
Richard brought out his phone and scrolled through the contact list, he had the sudden urge to want to reach out to her but he withheld himself. It was useless doing so.
He stared at his mum who was laughing hysterically along with her partner and he became bored for the day. That was why he hated coming along with her to her outings, she would greet every freaking person she saw as her friend and would stop to talk with them thereby wasting his precious time.
He then stood up and waved at his mum, “Call me when you are done.”
“Yeah, stick around,” Elizabeth replied and then he left.
Richard climbed down the stairs with his hands in his pockets. He decided to take a stroll to the swimming pool area to further clear his head. There were a few people in the pool while some were seated under the beautiful tall trees surrounding the pool.
Richard then pulled a chair backward and sat on it. A waiter came over to tend to his needs while he only requested a bottle of energetic drink.
His friend chatted him up about the upcoming practice for the City’s race at the national. It was pretty hard for his parents to accept, especially his mum, she kept on giving useless reasons as to why that was impossible but they finally allowed him to nowadays, especially after his fight with Kira, he just couldn’t do anything.
He texted him back and put his phone into his pocket while watching the people chat. He opened his drink, poured some into a cup, and drank it. When his eyes were roaming around, they finally stopped on a very familiar figure…no, two familiar figures and he was surprised to see them.
Richard sat up and rubbed his palms all over his face to clarify what he was seeing.
“Isn’t that Lucinda and…and Ben? What are they…”
Ben kisses Lucinda and the latter laughs out loud. They were behaving as if they had been in love for years. Richard couldn’t help but stand up and approach them for the last confirmation.
“Lucinda? It’s you.” Raphael said and Lucinda pushed Ben away as if she had been burnt by fire. She smiled nervously and combed her hair with her fingers.
“Richard, what are you doing here?” She asked him.
Richard was speechless. It wasn’t that he was surprised about Lucinda being hammered upon by any man, it was because he was slowly beginning to reason the whole plot. His eyes widened with each minute till they really couldn’t open further. He ran in between them and didn’t stop despite Lucinda’s yelling.
Richard’s heart was beating faster as he took a cab straight to Kira’s apartment. He already told the driver to take his mum home and if she should ask, the driver should inform her that he had something important worth doing.
While he was inside the car, a tear-stained look of Kira filled his mind and he felt completely bad for saying those words to her and behaving like a fool. On getting to her door after paying the driver, he knocked the door repeatedly until she came out to open it.
Kira’s appearance was rough and looked like she had spent the whole night painting. When would she stop harming her health?
Kira was surprised to see him but then she frowned and wanted to close the door. Richard quickly blocked it with his body and yelped when Kira pressed the door against his chest. This caused him to cry out in pain.
Kira quickly released the door and he stumbled inside with his hands on his chest.
“Damn, that is painful.” He whispered.
“Are you alright?”
“Yeah, I am fine. At least, the pain is not up to what I have caused you.” He replied. Kira stared at him blankly for a few minutes before putting her hands on her waist.
“What are you doing here, Richard?”
“I am here to apologize…”
“I am tired of listening to shitty apologies after mistakes. You were pleased with your slut so I will advise that you should go back and be with her. I am okay living by myself and I do not need another kid in my life causing troubles except my godson.” Kira answered him with anger laced in her voice. She turned around.
“When you are done staying, the way out of the house is the same way you came in through. Have a nice day, boy.”
Richard instantly hugged her from behind. She tried fighting against his hold but he was strong. She didn’t stop nevertheless.
“What the hell do you think you are doing?”
“Look, I am sorry. Yes, I acknowledge that I am a kid…I am a fool…I am a brat…I know that I do not worth you or your love or your trust…I made a mistake by raising my voice at you. I was a fool for not believing you. I was at the hotel today with my mum and I saw Lucinda and Ben together.
It came as a shock to me when I realized the game they had both played on me. The thing was that Ben came to meet me at my school last week and challenged me. He said that he was going to invite you over and kiss you, I had to go against that, telling him that I trusted you and that you hated his guts.
It was true that I saw you two kiss and I could see you lean in at first for it so that made me mad and I over drank myself to a stupor that night…”
“And then you had sex with Lucinda after. How is that excuse?” Kira pushed him away.
“Huh? You should tell me how that is an excuse. I never blamed you nor asked about your past with any of the girls, you could have talked with me. I was there with you whenever you needed me…my apartment, you said, was like a home to you. Ben is a human being and he has that chronic seizure that happens once in a while, that was why I had to go.
If I had told you before going, you wouldn’t have understood so I had to cut that part out. He could have died so I had to go. I wasn’t leaning in for a kiss, he told me that something was in his eye and I wanted to take a look not knowing that he was lying. I came back home after giving him a talk and a slap only to see pictures that were disgusting after dialing your number.” Kira expressed her emotions with gesticulation while Richard listened without interrupting.
“I am sorry. Can we please forget about the past and move in?”
“At this rate, I bet I can forget about you pounding Lucinda since my pure eyes watched the video. It kept ringing in my head since then. It’s really hard for me to let go of that immediately.”
“So, the relationship is a no?” Richard asked sadly. Kira sighed again and just tapped her forehead multiple times. He was having both the attitude of a teenager and a man too, how would she deal with this? She looked at him.
“I will try to make you happy, Kira, please. If something like this happens again, I will leave the relationship myself if it’s from my side. If I am confused about anything that deals with us, I will let you know, and then we’ll talk about it. Just please, I don’t want to lose you.” He pleaded.
Kira folded her arms and stared at him. He slowly approached her and wrapped his arms around her. He kissed her forehead.
“Please.” He pleaded again.
“You are not yet forgiven, Richard. You have to show him how sincere you are double time because you failed woefully the first time. The door is right there for you to leave.” Kira pushed him and left for her room, she locked the door firmly leaving poor Richard alone.
If he thought that he was just going to come in freely like before then it would be better if he had a daydream again.