You Kept Me Waiting While Loving Her 1 Chapter 10
‘Your life isn’t a mess because of me. Please stop bothering me.”
I didn’t want to drag it out any longer. I took Axel’s arm and walked away.
Sitting in the car, a wave of shame washed over me for no reason at all.
I had actually given up my studies and countless opportunities all for a man like Wyatt.
Back then, I was trapped inside my own feelings, always waiting for him to turn around, to love me just a
little more.
But now that I was finally outside looking in, I could see how pathetic Wyatt really was.
Axel handed me a tissue. “Everyone misjudges someone at some point. Don’t dwell on it.”
After everything that happened, I wasn’t in the mood to eat anymore. I just went back home to pack up some
things for my mother.
I thought someone as proud as Wyatt, after being put in his place like that, would just go straight back to
New York.
But the next time I stepped outside, he was standing in front of my building again.
“Just give me some time, okay? It won’t take long.”
He pulled me into his car.
Neither of us spoke the whole way. But the car was heading toward the ocean.
I had no idea what he intended to do. Before I could speak, I spotted a full proposal scene set up by the
shore.
Pink balloons, white sheer drapes, with the vast blue sea as the backdrop.
I’d told him about this once, back when we first got together.
So he’d remembered all along. He just never wanted to give it to me.
Wyatt took out a veil and pinned it into my hair. He took my hand and led me to the water’s edge.
Then he lowered himself slowly to one knee and held up the ring. “Alaia, this is the proposal you always dreamed of. Do you remember? You wanted to see the ocean. You loved pink. I remembered everything.”
“Can you give me one more chance? Can you wait for me?”
I looked down at him. His eyes were just as red as mine had been so many times before.
I had waited for this scene for so long-so long that I’d even forgotten when I first described it.
You still don’t get it. I don’t love you anymore.””
Tears rolled down Wyatt’s face. His voice broke as he held my hand tighter, trembling. “I know I’m a piece of shit. I took you for granted for so long. It’s okay if you don’t love me anymore. I can wait. I’ll wait until you forgive me again.”
“Everything the Blackwells have will be yours. I’ll pave the way for you. Just please… please don’t push me away.”
The wind was blowing my veil in every direction. I turned my head and looked at the shoreline I had once
loved so much.
Still, I shook my head gently. “I loved the ocean because I loved the idea of traveling there with you. I longed
for a sincere proposal just because I wanted to feel I truly mattered to you.”
“But Wyatt, there’s no love left between us. I really, truly don’t love you anymore.”
He collapsed onto the sand, sobbing, tears streaming down his face.
I took off the veil and tossed it right onto him.
“Maybe you’ve forgotten this, too, but you once told me to keep walking forward and never look back. The boy I loved-he’s been gone for a long time. I hope this is the last time we ever see each other.”
I turned to leave. Before I could take a step, he asked me one final question. “Are you really sentencing me to eternal ruin just for one mistake? Do you really think that man can go his whole life without ever messing up? That’s not how the world works, Alaia.”
I didn’t look back. The wind was loud in my ears. “No one can guarantee that. But I know one thing: as long as I love myself enough, I’ll never be afraid of losing again.”
I never saw Wyatt again after that day.
I heard all sorts of rumors. Some said he fell into severe depression and tried to end his life time and again. Others claimed he traveled around the world to heal his heart and would never return to New York.
Yet none of it mattered to me anymore.
When I successfully secured another business project, Axel stood by his car holding a bouquet of flowers, waiting quietly for me.
My life was moving forward.