Chapter 25
"Can you help?" Eden asked as he gave me some photos and I looked at it nodding. There it was. I
couldn''t believe my eyes as I saw them after so many years. Never would I had ever thought that I
would be seeing their faces in photographs.
"This is my mother," I said as my voice croaked at the end. My finger trailed over the picture in which
my mother stood at the end of a dock smiling at the camera. The other picture consists of a group of
young people and there she was holding a kid on her hand.
"This is me," I smiled as a lone tear fell down my cheek and I sniffed wiping the tear off my face.
"This is hrious," Iughed bitterly.
"Never would I had ever imagined that I would ever get to see her again and like this. There was
another picture and there I saw my father and my mother together before a house. There was another
couple and as thedy told me, I understood they were her son and her daughter-inw.
Finally, I was able to understand what happened to me and how I remembered thedy. She was our
neighbor when I was a kid and used to go to her ce. One day we all went out together on a boat and
the boat sank. Her daughter-inw and my parents died in that ident and they thought I was dead.
But as I look the total reflection of my mother, she understood that it was me and she contacted Eden
wanting to meet me.
As long as I could remember, I was swept to the shore where a man found me and after admitting me
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to a hospital, I was sent to an orphanage where the head nun of the orphan took care of me and at
some particr period of time, I thought I should convert to a nun but ended up giving up on the choice
as I found my path.
"Can you help me?" she asked and I nodded as I kept my hand on the picture of my parents.
~
"You know if you don''t want to then you shouldn''t," Eden gave me a sympathetic look as I shook my
head.
We were at the front of the cafe where we just had the meeting. I could still see her sitting on the table
with a sad expression looking at her son''s picture.
"I want to help," I said and he nodded.
"Come here," he said and before I knew it I was pulled to a hug. I was gobsmacked by his sudden
move and I stood their stiff in his arms but after some time I understood he was trying to soothe me
after knowing my story and being a friend he was just doing his duty. I sighed as I gave in and kept my
head on his shoulder letting him soothe him.
I had no idea when the tears started rolling off my eyes and I was already crying my heart out
remembering my parents. All these years, I really thought that maybe they were alive but now that
simple hope of mine was shattered as I got to know the truth that they actually died.
"Hey, it''s alright," he said and I cried even more.
"Look at me," he said as he held my face and made me look up at him. My vision was blurry and I
could hardly see his face but before I know it, I felt something on my lips and I blinked continuously to
get a clear vision when I saw his face inch away from me. He was kissing me.
"No! Eden," I said as I pushed him away and looked at him in shock.
"What''s wrong? I thoug-"
"You have got the wrong idea," I said as I wiped my lips and was already running away.
"Listen to me, Sang!"
"Sang!" he was already after me but I hailed a taxi and got inside before he could even reach.
How the hell did this happen?
Shit! I let my guard down.
How am I going to tell this to Caleb?
~
The lights were off when I returned back to Caleb''s penthouse. I walked in as I turned on the lights and
I thought he was probably not back from the office. I thought about it and made my way towards my
room when I saw the lights of the study room turned on.
I walked to the room and found him working on hisptop.
"You are back early today," I said and he didn''t even respond. I made my way to him and leaned to the
table as I saw his face, neutral of emotions as he stared at hisptop.
"Did you have your dinner?" I asked and all he did was give me a nod in response.
"Can I talk to you? I have something to tell you," I asked wanting to tell him about everything that
happened to me. I wanted to share everything with him starting from finding thedy who got me my
parent''s pictures to Eden kissing me. I knew he would be mad hell angry but I wanted to tell him
everything. Part of me didn''t liked the idea of keeping things from him.
"Can we talkter? I''m busy," he said without even looking up at me. I felt strange as I looked at him.
He didn''t even look up at me. What was going on inside his mind?
"Okay," I said more like a whisper and bitting on my lips I moved out of the room but not before
ncing back at him.
A sigh escaped my mouth as I walked out closing the door after me. Perhaps he really was busy and I
should give him some time. We can''t really share love every single day. He had to work some days and
I needed to respect that. He has done so much for me and I should understand that perhaps there are
times when he needed to be alone.
I couldn''t sleep the whole night because all of a sudden, memories of fifteen years ago came flooding
into my mind. I jolted up from my sleep restless and all sweaty. I had a nightmare or should I say a
vision which had me drowning perhaps, it was what I had before I separated from my parents.
It was not a nightmare, but a reality. Past memories that awakened as I remembered my parents face
after a long time.
I was restless and my heart thumped against my chest. I wanted to be next to Caleb for some reason
because he was the only one who made mefortable whenever I was in his arms. I walked to his
room and found him sleeping on the side of the bed.
Slowly, making my way next to him, I put my hand on his torso hugging him from his back and instantly
felt relief wash over me as I closed my eyes and slept.
~
The ringing of a phone awoke me as my eyes, snapped open and I looked to my side to find it empty.
He was gone and I furrowing my eyebrows, I reached out for my phone finding ten missed calls from
Eden and text message which said ''I''m sorry. Please don''t be mad at me.''
I should tell Eden about my feelings and make him understand that I have Caleb in my heart. If I kept it
any longer then it would mean, I am igniting his feelings and it would be thest thing I would want.
I got off from the bed and saw Jenny in the kitchen. She smiled up at me and as I looked for Caleb, she
told me that he already left.
"Left?" I asked as I looked at the clock.
Strange! He didn''t even ask me and why did he go out so early?
I thought maybe he had some urgent work because he was so busy the previous night. So, I shrugged
off the matter and made my way back into the room where I got ready for the office all the while
checking the phone for any notifications from his side.
But found none.
As I got back to the office, I felt a little weird as I saw people already tensed around me.
"What''s going on?" I asked when I saw Bailey with a sour expression.
"I think your boss is not his right mood today," she said and she walked away when I looked back at
Caleb''s cabin. I made my way into his cabin and saw him angrily throwing fits on some employees. His
eyes fell on me when I brought his coffee and kept it down before him.
"Take it away. I don''t feel like having it!" he said and I was taken aback. It was not that he didn''t want it
but the way he spoke to me made me shocked. His voice had this bitterness that made me take a few
steps back. But as the employees in the room looked my way, I picked the cup and made my way out
of the cabin.
"What''s wrong with you Caleb?" I mumbled feeling my heartbeat rising in panic, thinking about him.
Sorry for thete update because the girl with whom I was writing this story has ditched me and now I
am left nowhere. Since I can''t contact her, I will be taking this story as mine and willplete it on my
own. Check Inkitt for the next chapter.