You Kept Me Waiting While Loving Her 1 Chapter 04
Reese had clearly been expecting me to lose it again. My response caught her off guard.
“I really admire you, Alaia. You sure know how to hold back your feelings.”
“I was the one who said we weren’t right for each other back then, but it still stings watching my old admirer
fall for someone else.”
“Still, I’ve no intention of splitting you two up. He’s already proposed after all, and I’m not about to take your
leftovers.”
She twirled her nails casually, acting as if everything was only natural.
I almost laughed.
Wyatt treated me like he was training a dog. Meanwhile, he was out there being someone else’s dog on a
leash.
This world was completely absurd.
But none of it mattered to me anymore. Tomorrow, I’d be gone from this city for good.
“You can keep your sick little dramas to yourselves. I don’t need updates.”
I’d barely taken a step when the door swung open. Wyatt walked in with a bandage wrapped around his head.
“Alaia, how could you talk to Reese like that? She’s been through a lot tonight too. You’re supposed to be the
older one here-you should be comforting her, not picking a fight over nothing.”
I turned and looked at the man I’d loved for years. That face had been the secret crush of my teenage heart,
the person I’d wanted to spend the rest of my life with.
But he’d rotted from the inside out.
He wasn’t the Wyatt who’d driven me to my exam on his motorcycle and told me never to look back.
And finally my heart stopped hurting for him.
I lifted my head calmly. “Don’t worry. I never will again.”
With that, I went straight home and finished packing.
I’d lived in that place for years, but in the end, everything I had to take with me fit into one small suitcase.
The next day, I was surprised to find Wyatt at home. He had his sleeves rolled up, washing strawberries in the kitchen. There was a birthday cake with buttercream frosting on the table.
“I had that video taken down. You were right, it was a jerk move. The other day you asked me to treat you like a kid on Children’s Day, so I got you a cake.”
Last Children’s Day, Wyatt had left me behind to set off fireworks by the river with Reese for hours.
She’d just come back from abroad then, and I’d been so sure I wouldn’t lose. How could those silly remarks from their younger days ever outshine the real me who stayed by his side?
Yet reality soon slapped me hard across the face.
Staring at the cake and washed strawberries, I felt no warmth, only utter desolation in my heart.
“Wyatt, let’s talk.”
Four years. The best years of both our lives. Before I left, I wanted to say a proper goodbye.
He was about to say something when that familiar ringtone went off again.
This time, I didn’t stay silent. I reached over and pressed my hand over his. “Can you just let me finish for once today?”
Wyatt shook his head. “I’m supposed to leave for Paris with Reese today. Can we talk when I get back?”
As he was about to leave, something suddenly crossed his mind.
He pulled out a ring and a hotel business card from his pocket.
“That hasty proposal ring last time was too rushed. This one is to make it up to you. I’ve already booked the venue for our engagement party too.”
“Once I get back from the trip with Reese, you bring your mom here, and our families can meet.”
He didn’t even notice the suitcase sitting in the living room. He strode out the door, in a hurry to get to Reese.
I grabbed my suitcase and tossed the ring into the trash on my way out.
Now there was no need for any farewell at all.
At the airport with my mother, standing at the gate, I saw Reese linking arms with Wyatt on the other side of
the terminal.
He noticed me, too.
But this time, I wasn’t going to wait.
I walked onto the plane as he stared after me in shock.