You Kept Me Waiting While Loving Her 1 Chapter 08
(Alara, I never thought it would come to this. I always believed we were going to get married and grow old together With Reese, I really thought I was just looking out for her like a sister.]
[I was wrong. I shouldn’t have played that delayed gratification game. I spent all that time soaking up your love without ever considering how you felt.]
[Please forgive me. We shared our best four years together. Don’t leave me behind.]
Wyatt couldn’t get through by phone, so he sent one message after another like this.
I almost typed out a reply, my fingers hovering repeatedly over the input box.
Pouring out past grievances would make it seem I still cared.
Trashing him harshly felt unfair to those four years of my life.
My lashes fluttered, and sorrow welled up inside me.
If only he had woken up sooner.
If he had chosen me even once amid all the times he stood by Reese, things would never have ended like
this.
But there are no what-ifs in this world.
The next morning, just as I was about to leave, Wyatt’s parents called.
I’d met his mother before. That elegant, regal woman had looked me up and down and finally said only that
as long as her son was happy, that was all that mattered.
Deep down, I knew she thought I was just someone eager to climb the social ladder.
Back then, I loved Wyatt. So I swallowed my pride for him.
When I picked up the phone this time, her tone was noticeably softer. “Alaia, I heard you two have had a little
disagreement. Wyatt’s been going out drinking every night, locking himself in the room you used to share
and refusing to come out.”
“You’ve been together for so long, don’t act childish. Learn to be more tolerant.”
I interrupted her gently, “Mrs. Blackwell, we’re not ‘having a disagreement.’ We broke up.”
Mrs. Blackwell didn’t get angry at my blunt tone. Instead, she let out a small laugh. “I know Wyatt truly loves
you. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be torturing himself like this. You can’t stand having anyone come between you two, so I’ll send Reese away and make sure she never gets in your sight again.”
“You’re a smart girl. You know what kind of family the Blackwells are. Stop making a scene. Who gets
through a marriage without swallowing some pride? Don’t you agree? Sometimes you just have to let things
slide
Stop making a scene.
Everyone kept saying those words to me.
Wyatt abandoned me, and he told me to stop making a scene.
Reese, just so Wyatt would keep chasing after her, told me to stop making a scene.
Even now-after I’d already ended things with him, after I’d left New York for good-his mother was still
telling me to stop making a scene.
All of them only cared about their own interests, yet no one ever thought about how I felt.
“Mrs. Blackwell, maybe you think I stayed with Wyatt for what I could get out of him. Maybe you think I was reaching above my station. But he was the one who chased me. He was the one who insisted on being with
me.”
“If it weren’t for him, I would have gotten into an Ivy and gone abroad for graduate school. What I gave up for him was a bright future. Not the other way around.”
I paused and let out a bitter laugh. “I’ve paid the price for my youthful ignorance, yet I can afford to let go. But in the future, in the life I’m going to build for myself, there’s no room for Wyatt.”
I hung up, snapped the SIM card in half, and threw it in the trash.
Let those rotten years stay buried in the past.
I pulled myself together and took my mother to the hospital for her pre-surgery workup.
Right before they wheeled her into the operating room, she held my hand tight.
“Mom’s going to be fine. I’ll be waiting right here.”
Thankfully, five hours later, the doctor told me the surgery had gone well.
The ophthalmologist Axel had referred us to really was that good. Even a complicated case like hers might
actually recover.
I clutched my phone, trying to figure out how to thank Axel.
But Axel showed up at the hospital before I could even decide.
“Mr. Kensington, you really don’t have to…”
I watched him busying himself with everything-even sending his assistant to buy daily essentials and bring
them to the hospital.
“You’re someone I personally recruited to my team. It’s only right I look after you, so don’t be so reserved
around me.”