Chapter 249 - Give Him Some Time (1/2)

|Innaya|

Arjun left… just like that. However, he did not leave alone. He whistled on his way to the door, and Fortune ran after him. Along with his departing back, I lost the beautiful relation the man gave me selflessly.

How much was I going to ruin my life?

I wanted to chase after Arjun.

I wanted him to stop.

I wanted to apologize… but all I did was to sit frozen.

”Anyways, it has nothing to do with me now. We don't have any relation anymore, so this doesn't concern me. Thank you for your non-existent trust. Oh, and by the way, had I not received the word of what Ayesha's mother wanted to do, you would be kissing goodbye to your dignity. So yeah, I think it was fun hiding things. Right? ”

Tears rolled down from my eyes, and they soon blocked my vision. I could not even recognize the outline of what was before me as everything turned blurred. His parting sentence echoed in my head,

Arjun showered his warm love over me for all these months, and what did I give him in return? Pain? Accusation? Deep down, I knew Arjun had different places for Eshan and me in his heart. I knew he cared about me a lot. I had experienced it in those two months. He had looked after me as the elder brother. He corrected my mistakes and showed me the correct way.

I still vividly remember the day when he announced himself as my brother. His clear warnings of entrusting Eshan with my secrets were fresh in my memory. I owed him a lot. In the dark, he had done many things from me, which I could never repay him off. Instead of acknowledging his love, why I questioned him?

My insecure heart could never control my emotions. It always brought the worst out of me.

I felt some movement beside me. Someone grabbed my shoulder, but I could not bring myself to move my gaze away from the door. I was hoping that it was yet another joke of Arjun, and he would just walk back through that door. He would joke around and say that he was just kidding.

Nothing of that sort happened, he was not coming back.

”Give him some time, let him cool down.”

I heard someone saying, but all I could think was Arjun's words. From time and again, he had been advising me to share everything with Eshan. He would encourage me to learn to trust people around me, allowing them the chance to enter my heart and life.

I heard a sigh before feeling a soft fabric rubbing gently against my cheeks. ”Innaya.”

I blinked, finally understanding the voice of Eshan. He was holding me, wiping my face with his handkerchief.

”...”

I opened my mouth to ask him to stop Arjun, but no sound came out of my mouth. With overwhelming guilt suppressing my ability to speak, making me unable to voice out anything, all I did was to open and close my mouth with despair.

I just could not bring myself to speak anything.

”Arjun… he left.” I sobbed, finally mustering remaining energy, which seemed to have depleted with the departure of my brother. After my family and Eshan, that was the only relationship I had made with someone else. And, because of my foolishness, it was broken. I could blame no one but myself.