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Hunterâs Por (contâd)
She whimpered and pushed me back. Rubbing her arm I held in a scalding grasp, she sneered,
âYou canât do anything, Hunter Macintyre. Tyler is not a weakling. You canât take him down. He knows how to deal with a monster like youâ
Hearing her praise that scoundrel in front of me, a vortex of fury swirled inside me.
âDonât.â I fixed my dark eyes on her. âDonât try it. Claire. I know thereâs nothing between you and Tyler
Just because you think it that way, it doesnât mean itâs not true. Tyler promised to marry me. He promised to give me a marriage you couldnât.â She articulated after averting her gaze.
I didnât want to irk her but my lips upturned in a knowing smirk. She looks away when sheâs lying.
âReject him. Heâs not worthy of you
âNeither were you and I still married you. Whatâs wrong with trying it with him! He canât do any more damage, can he? Youâve done everything to me. I donât have anything to lose.â
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I bit into the flesh of the inside of my cheek. Blood spread on the tip of my tongue. I gulped it as I let her eyes burn with mine in a c
1 heard Tia Murphy talk shit about you. Sheâs alive because sheâs an elder, I know for a fact that your motherâinâlaw will never slander and blame you for trapping her sonâ
Claire staggered and frantically removed her hair from her face
âAll thanks to you. But Tyler is different. He doesnât-
Tyler! Tyler! Tyler! Why do you keep chanting his name?â I lost my temper.
Going near her again. I pointed a finger at her. Not a clever move on my part. But I couldnât help it
âIf you donât stop it then I will really do something to him. Donât push me, Chine
âWhy canât I push you, huh? Why? She pushed me back, provoking me. âWhy are you getting riled up when I mention Tyler! Why canât you see me with him? Why canât you leave me the fuck alone? Why???â
âThatâs because II ground my teeth together and gulped the words with a lump in my throat
âYou what Hunter Macintyre? Claire pushed me again.
Because I regret divorcing you. Because I regret being an idiot and making you suffer from agonies you didnât deserve. Because I regret that you lost our baby because of me. Because I want you to be my wife again. Because⦠I love you.
âYou what, Hunter? Tell me. You canât just command me like you are my owner and have no reasonâ Her tearâsmothered voice plummeted on my heart like lightning.
Because I regret leaving you for another woman.
Yes, I understand it now. I understand I made a gravely mistake. I shouldnât have left the wife who loved me like a piece of her soul for a woman who broke my heart.
Even if it was for fulfilling her duties as a daughter, Zara left me. She wasnât there when I craved a loverâs touch or kiss. She didnât take care of me when I was depressed after her departure. She didnât put cold cotton cloth on my forehead when I was burning in swealtry fever. She didnât prepare dishes for me day after day persistently, even though I kept rejecting them.
It wasnât her who patiently waited in our marriage.
Claire did
She did everything for me and that was why I was willing to work on our marriage. It was her love and resilience that made me believe in our bond, and agree to announce it to the world that I was hers
It was because of her why I took interest in our anniversary preparations. Alas, I fucked up. I Fucked up a great deal.
But the mouth, when I saw Zara after two years, I couldnât control myself. The time I spent with her- the time I assumed was heavenly in my life
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came flashing before my eyes. I didnât know what I was doing and ran to her,
However, the true treasure was the two years of married life I had with Claire. When she would greet me with smile. When she would serve food in a plate for me, and sometimes feed me with her hands. The true treasure was her and I didnât see it until she left.
Whoever said it, said it wiselyâThat you only acknowledge value of someone or something when they are no longer in your life
Similarly, I realized Claireâs worth only after she left me. Otherwise I had taken her for granted. I never cared for her feelings much less about how my actions would hurt her.
I always believed that she was depended on me. That she loved me too crazily to ever think about offending me or leaving me.
But after she left, it was then it came to my awareness that I was the one depended on her. I was the one who needed her.
I was drunk ons stupidity. I was blinded by energies unknown that I couldnât see what Claire has done for me in our two years of marriage.
It was only after I slapped her, only after she said she will free me that I started feeling weird. And after she signed the divorce papers and bled to miscarriage did I realize that 1 disrespected the woman who truly worshiped me. That I kicked the source of happiness and peace out of my life.
I thought it was Zaraâs memories which were helping me survive. But after Claire left me and our house, it struck me that it perseverance.
Was Claireâs
Her small meaningful gestures, her motivating notes I found in my lunchbox daily, her smiles, her touch, her shy hugs, her breathing, her scent, her voice⦠It was them who kept me going and I never realized it until they ceased to exist in my life.
And now, Iâm here again. In front of her. With hopes that I can get a second chance.
Although as I said I donât think I will get another chance from her, I will keep trying
I will repent for all 1 made her suffer and try to make it upto her.
I will go on my
my knees in front of a thousand cameras if thatâs what it takes to seek her forgiveness.
I will plan my own murder if thatâs what will make her look at me with love in her eyes again.
I will bleed myself to death if thatâs what will make her smile happily again.
I will try. I will wait. I will battle for her as she did for me in two years of our marriage.
She was giving a test earlier. Now itâs my tum.
She was trying to save our marriage from collapsing. Now itâs my burn to pick all the pieces and put them together to rebuild it
She was trying to prove her love for me. Now Iâll do the same. Iâll show her and the world that I love her. I have truly fallen in love with her.
Maybe I was always in love. It took time to recognize it.
I do not love Zara. Not any more. I will not be with her. I will not let anyone else have her place.
I will not see the wedding ring I made her wear on someone elseâs finger.
I will not walk down the aisle again with anyone else except her.
I wonât take any other woman on our wedding bed. That house used to chim with Claireâs laughter. It will only chim with her voice, her laughter again or no one elseâs.
I will only take Claire as My wife. My woman My love. Just her. No one else.
I will win her again.
Rubbing a hand on my face, I blinked my weary eyes. I didnât sleep for the last two nights as I was nervous about this meeting. Its exhaustion was weighing down on me now.
âYou have always been an independent woman, Claire. No one can own you. Itâs just that-
âYou know what, forget it. You have wasted enough of my time.â She rolled her eyes disinterestedly as she ambled towards the door.
âClaire, I need to talk. Please listen to me I didnât hate the fact that i was pleading to her,
Slie was caught off guard, yet she didnât stay. She held the knob and twisted it.
âI donât wait to. Thereâs nothing left to talk about. Just leave me alone.
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Thatâs what I canât do. I canât leave you alone. That too in RavenMoore. In Tylerâs country.
âYou donât know anything about Tyler. He is aâ¦â I trailed off as I turned around to the sight of Claire staring in a state of stupor while Tyler was standing on the other side of the door, his right hand lifted in the air with knuckles facing outside as if he was about to knock on the door.
A frown formed between his eyes before it turned into a dark scowl.
âWhat the fuck is he doing here? Did he bully you, Claire? Tyler came inside the room, pointing at me.
His appearance fueled my possessiveness. I crossed the room and pulled Claire behind my back
âTake your ass out of here, Murphy!
No fucker can talk to my wife with that rigidness in front of me
Tbcâ¦