Part 9

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Jame's P.O.V :

Sh*t! What am I thinking?

I can't cheat Stella, she is the only girl with whom I like to spend my time, to share my things and she understand me too.

I can't do this to her.

But...

Liza..

She is someone different..

I don't know what is this feeling..

I want her but more than that I hate that feeling when I see her with some one else. I feel like to punch hard on the guy's face who come close to her.

But...she had to be a b****, how could she be with Robert..

Why? I am waiting for her since one and a half year but she never gave me a chance and here she is so close to Robert in a few months..

Maybe you don't deserve her..

The girl in high school too fell in love with Robert...but not me..

I couldn't digest my failure and so I spilled everything about the bet to that girl and she left Robert..

But..I was unaware that Robert too was in love with her...

He hates me for that till now...

But Liza is not a bet.. and now we are mature enough than that time...

Will Robert think that I am again doing the same thing by separating Liza and him.

What if they are not in a relationship?

Yes..that would be great...

I don't want to hurt him again..

He must not be in love with Liza.

Because love happens only once..right?

And in my case it will happen never.

"Sir..do you want more?" The bartender asked me.

"No."

I don't want to be drunk..I don't want to do any mistake again.

I don't want Liza to hit me with a receiver.

A smile spread on my lips by recollecting the memories of that night when I took her to her apartment in a drunken state.

I still regret that night...

I have hurt her feelings..

But she always took care of me...my work...

I have her footage on my lap top of her working in my office.

I have saved them...without informing anyone.. except Dave..

Her innocence, her smile, her natural look, her eyes, her way of talking and blushing, her confidence in front of me, her awkwardness whenever I looked into her eyes....

God! James stop it!!

F***!!

What is happening..

I hate you damn Liza.... You have smitten me..

You will ruin me...

Enough.. I can't take it anymore.

F*** that company!!

F*** that marriage!!

I don't want anything. I want my mind in peace and nothing.

Take your half share Robert or take the whole company I don't give a sh*t anymore.

I need to talk to Liza...

Before I could have stood up properly I heard a gun shot.

What the f***?

The whole room went silent. Then I saw Dave and his men ran towards the backyard.

I too went there with Mason on my side.

I saw some men ran after the culprit. How could someone enter with so many guards around?

Robert's security head got a shot on his arm, he was executed to a nearby hospital.

"I think it was for...Robert." Dave told me.

What?

"Where is he?" I asked him.

He gestured me towards a corner where I saw him with... Liza.

What is she doing here?

What if the bullet had hit her?

What the hell is she doing in the backyard?

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I didn't notice anyone standing near us while I was arguing with Liza.

But then Liza suddenly stopped and gestured me towards my mom, her mom and Stella.

"Please explained this to them." She said and walked away from there.

Alright!

Let's do it.

I walked towards them and looked directly at Stella.

"I want to talk to you." She was in a daze I think but she nodded.

We went inside the hall room which was now vacant as everyone left the place after that accident.

I took her to a table and we sat on the chairs around it.

"Stella I can't marry you." I said it without a second thought.

She was beyond shocked.

"Excuse me?" She asked in a confused tone.

"I am really sorry Stella but I don't want to marry you. You are a very good friend but...I don't know..." I stopped in mid sentence as she stood up and hugged me from the side.

"It's alright James. And.... Umm.. sorry and thank you..." She said and sat down.

Why is she apologizing?

And...why is thanking me?

"Actually James... I was not going to marry you..." She said with a guilty expression on face.

"What?"

"Umm..yeah... My dad was forcing me to this marriage...umm...and I love someone else... I was going to runaway before the marriage...."

"What the..... How could you think of that? You were going to cheat on me? And how could you be doing that to your family?"

How could she think of doing this to me?

And what a fool I was to keep on believing her.

"I never thought you have such a cheap mind. I thought you were a nice person and s good friend but you are as same as your cheap brother."

"Stop it James. Stop telling anything about any of my brothers, they both loved me and that is the reason they were not willing to let me marry you. Because you don't love, you were going to marry me only to have that company in your hand. You were using me as a bait. I am not a property which you can buy for your profit. I liked you as my friend but when you kept this proposal to my dad, I was beyond shocked. How could you James? How could you use me for money? And...my father...he only knows how to earn money... He never see if his daughter is happy or not..if she need anything or not...he only knows to give orders... I only respected my dad because of my mom... Diego left him and I was too going to left him... And Robert...he don't like my father too...but maybe he understand my father and he always tried to keep our family together. But he don't know that our Father don't do relations he only knows business." She took a sharp breath and drank the whole glass if water.

I could see tears pouring out of her eyes continuously.

"Hmm..sorry.. I never thought I would be hurting your feelings. I thought you liked me." I said and held her hand to comfort her.

"Yes I liked you James and I still like you but you don't marry a person you like, there should be a bonding between them, there should be attraction and most importantly there should be love between them. You are my friend and I want it to be like that." She said and hugged me.

"Thank you." I said and kissed her head.

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I went to the rest room to check on Robert.

He was sleeping there so I didn't disturb him and went back to my room.

The next day we all left the hotel and went to our home.

I need to talk to Liza about her and Robert's relationship...

What if she is his girlfriend?

No...

You will back off James....

I can't repeat the same thing again...

But why this has to be Liza...

No..

Sorry Robert I can't ...

I will have her back to my company...

Back to myself...

That's it.

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