Chapter 116 - GOING THROUGH ANOTHER PAIN

It was Lise last movie before she called for a break.

She didn't attend any event and didn't post anything on her social media. She disappeared like ghost and made people wonder about her.

Yet, the news about her disappearance would never last longer than the news about people died in the attack of the supernatural creature.

And during that time, July secluded herself in her own apartment, didn't even bother to pick up any phone call or replied any messages from her friends, who were worried about her condition, since they didn't know what happened to her.

The rumor about her dating Knox McKeltar had long forgotten, since there was not many evidence of it.

And now, after more than five months, July was completely alone in her own world, waiting without any certainty…

Until one night, she felt his presence. Someone was watching her from the dark.

July opened her eyes and found that deep, dark blue eyes, that she longed to see, were staring right at her.

Knox was sitting on the edge of her bed, holding her hands gently. No one knew how long he was there…

"Hey," Knox said, smiling softly at her.

For a moment, July was in trance, she couldn't do anything, except staring at him and observed his expression.

He looked tired, exhausted even, there was a small cut on the corner of his bottom lip. She wondered what caused it since it was easy for him to heal himself.

But, aside from that, he looked exactly like she remembered. Handsome, radiant, brilliant, the man that she loved.

"Don't cry…" Knox said, he wiped away tears from her face and caressed her cheek.

July could feel his callous fingers against her skin and that was the moment when she realized it was real. He was there…

After such a long time she waited for him, he finally came to her.

"I am sorry, I am very sorry, love…" Knox said, he took July in his warm embrace, buried his face against her shoulder, as he breathed in her lovely scent. He loved her. He loved her with every fiber in his being.

Five months was nothing compared to the time that he had spent in his eternity, but it was five months of being away from her that felt so different.

Knox thought he could stay away from her for her own safety, leaving her without words, since it was hard to say goodbye to her. He didn't even know what he could say to her or what he could offer…

Their time was difference, in this life, there was nothing he could do to keep her close to him, without getting her hurt in the end of the day.

She would be the one, who would take the brunt if they continue this relationship.

And yet, here he was… sitting beside her bed, watching her trouble sleeping. Her brows furrowed deeply and she kept calling his name every now and then.

It had been five months, but she had not yet gotten better. If anything, her condition only got worse, she shut all the people out of her life…

July's body was trembling in his arms, she was crying her heart out and there was nothing Knox could do to lessen her pain.

"I am sorry, my love…" Knox whispered to her ears, if he could, he wanted to take away all of her pain, he wanted her to forget about him, since it would be best for her to live her life without knowing him.

But, he couldn't do that and the thought of her not remembered anything that they had gone through together, was almost like a physical pain for him.

"You left me…" July cried, she hugged him tightly, as if she didn't do that, Knox would disappear again and she would wake up to find out this was only a dream… "Why don't you say anything?"

Knox kissed her cheeks and her forehead. "I am sorry." And that was the only words that he could say, though it was not enough to show all of his feeling for her.

"Don't ever do that again!" July grabbed Knox front shirt, as she looked at him right in the eyes with her teary eyes. "Don't leave me again!"

However, Knox couldn't promise that. He had nothing to offer for her…

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Lise was laying down on the hospital bed, waiting for her labor, since the interval of the pain had become closer with Gael was sitting on the chair beside of her bed, refused to leave her alone.

Meanwhile, Anne had prepared everything for this moment and she was very enthusiastic to welcome a new member to the family.

Lise couldn't say that it was a family, but this was the only thing that close to it…

She was glad to know that her family survived the earthquake months ago and lived their life normally even without her.

"It will be hurt for you to have a normal labor, don't you want…" Gael kept fussing over this fact. He wanted her to have painless delivery, but Lise was hellbend to have it normal, since the doctor said she could do it.

"No, Gael… I want it this way." She held his hand and it felt so cold to her touch. His condition sometime worried her, since occasionally he would look so frail.

Lise knew what caused him that way and she was sorry for that… she didn't mean to put him in harm way, she just…

"I am sorry to put you through another pain…" Gael lowered his head and kissed her knuckles, remorse in his eyes.

Lise sighed, as she caressed his curly hair and spoke in low voice, as the pain came again. "This is the pain that I am willing to go through."

One thing that Lise conceded; there was no way she would hate her own child…

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