In Love With Someone Else Bryce was all smiles as he made his way over to work later in the day. He wanted nothing more than to stay indoors with Hera all through the day but sadly, he got an urgent call from his office concerning an important work that needed his attention.
At first he didn't want to but Hera had forced him, pleaded with him to go ahead and handle it but he had promised to get back has soon as he could. He was only here for formality sake and because he wanted to respect her wishes. She'd get upset with him if he didn't and for the life in him, he didn't want that. The last thing he wanted to do was getting on her bad side.
Doris helped to set up everything he needed for the day's work and he couldn't wait to finish up on tso that he could go back hto Hera as quickly as possible.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt"Would you liketo get you anything sir?" Doris had asked after setting up everything that he needed to continue.
He waved her off. "No. You can go and don't let anyone in until i ask you too. I want to be left alone for now." "Sure thing boss!" She replied before shutting the door behind her as she made her way back to her position. Bryce picked up his cellphone to scroll through spictures of Hera. The ones he had taken of her earlier today before he left the house.
Damn! He was only away for a few hours but he already misses her terribly. Maybe love wasn't such a bad thing after all. Maybe it was finally tfor him to let himself cave and let go of his fear from the past. Maybe it was tto move on. He just had to admit it and the rest would finally be history.
"Ma'am you can't go in there." Bryce overhead the persistent and loud voice of Doris just outside his office. "My boss is busy and you can't—" The door forcefully pushed open and Nella walked in with Doris behind her. The latter had an apologetic look on her face as if to tellthat she didn't mean for her to barge into my office unannounced.
"I'm sorry sir. I tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen and-" He raised a hand at her and she stopped talking almost immediately. "It's alright Doris. You can go, I'll handle it from here." She nodded in relief and strutted out of the office, gently shutting the door behind her. Bryce knew that one day, something would like this would happen but he wasn't expecting it to be today. He just wasn't ready and cut out for facing her today. He waited for her to say something, anything at all but she didn't so he decided to break the silence himself.
Resting his hands on his chin, he discarded his work and faced her. "Why are you here Nella?" "I think the right question should be, why is your secretary stoppingfrom coming into your office?" She asked, voice laced in contempt. "I've always cunannounced and not once have you sentaway so why would she try to stop me? Did you instruct her to?" "I instructed her not to let anyone in because i don't want to be disturbed so it's not just you." He answered casually. "Now, why are you here in my office?" Nella noted the shift in his voice. It was completely different from what she was used to. If anything, Bryce never spoke to her in this manner. There was something different about him but she just didn't want to believe what her gut was telling her so she brushed it off. "Why else would i be here Bryce?" She retorted.
He ran his hands over his face tiredly. "You shouldn't have chere Nella. You should've at least called to letknow that you were stopping by before barging into my office like this?" "I should have called?!" She yelled atand threw her bag on the nearest couch angrily. "Well Bryce, I've been doing that for the past three weeks. I've been calling and texting non-stop. I've been trying my very best to check up on you but it feels as if you were deliberately ignoring all my attempts to reach out to you!" "So why don't you go ahead and tellwhy you've been ignoringall these days." She folded her hands across her chest. "Go on. Tellwhat you've been up to that's so important to the point where i don't matter anymore." "I've been busy Nella." He answered firmly, flipping through the papers on his desk meticulously but he never told her why he had been busy these past few weeks. "I've been busy with work, the company...i mean you of all people should know that?" "I'm not a psychic Bryce so how on earth do you expectto know what's going on in your life if you don't tell me?" "I was going to tell you... eventually." "Oh don't givethat crap Bryce. You think I'm stupid or something?" She countered, eyes staring him down but for sreason, he remained unmoved. "You've always been busy Bryce and it's not like there's ever a point in your life where you aren't neither did it stop you from seeing me." He swallowed. "Listen Nella, we can't keep on seeing each other anymore. The only reason why i didn't reach out to you all these while was because i didn't know how to tell you." Nella felt conflicted. She couldn't believe her ears. She had wanted to believe that he was joking but Bryce doesn't play games. When he says something, he always meant it. When he was done with you, there's no way on earth that he would cback.
"Y-You're leaving me?" She asked completely appalled. There's on way on earth that he was trying to dump her. Not after everything that she had done to make him stay by her side. She had always loved him and that was the only reason why she stuck it out with him all these years.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThat was the only reason why she never complained about his habits or the fact that he was sleeping around. It didn't matter as long as she had him. As long as he cback to her whenever he needed her. It never mattered as long as she would always continue to be his number one, his top priority over the others so how could he leave her now? "I'm sorry." He apologized sincerely even though he knew that it wouldn't stop her from hurting. This was why he doesn't keep them close because he knew how attached they would always becbut in this case, he just couldn't anymore.
"I um...i want to be a better person and i want to fix myself and it wouldn't be fair if i kept leading you on. I'm truly sorry." "N-No." She walked up to him and cupped his face with both hands. "You can't possibly do that toBryce. I'm your friend and other than that, you love me. You're supposed to fall in love within the end. You can't leaveBryce. You simply cannot leave me. You-" He held both hands and slowly brought it down. "No. You and i knew With
from the very beginning that we weren't meant to be together. I had always made it clear right from the lear right from the start that i would never end up you. It En was my fault and I'm truly Sorry Nella but this has to stop. Whatever we had or shared between us, ends here and now."
She shook her head vehemently, angry and hurtful tears falling miserably. "Then I'll wait I'll wait for you to cback. You can take all the tyou need in the world to fix yourself and I'll wait till whenever you're ready to be withBryce." "Don't do this Nella." "Who is she?" She asked out of the blue shocking him but she only snorted. "You didn't expectto think that there was no one else right? The only reason why you want to call off what we have is because of her right so who is she?" "It doesn't matter and you don't have to know that He answered
conversationally. "But i have feelings for her and this time, it's the real deal.
I have strong feelings for her and i cannot bear the thought of loosing her in my life. She's the reason why i want to be better. Hell, she's the reason why i have to be better." "She's the reason why i want to leave this life behind and i cannot do that with you still in the picture Nella so please, just let it go and let's remain friends." She staggered a few feet backwards, eyes fixed on him in disbelief as realization finally dawned on her in the harshest way possible. "You're in love with someone else." Bryce Donovan was in love with someone else and the sades t part of his confession was that whoever he was in love with, was not her.