Damon, who abruptly joined us, requested to have a talk with me in person. This implored Denis to excuse us and go wait for me in the car.
From the look of Damon's facial features, whatever he wanted to tell me did not look or sound good.
"Alright. " I exhaled deeply, pleading with him to spill. Anxiety had begun rocking in my nerves, and his silence was doing me no good.
"There's something I want to tell you. " He began.
I already knew that. What I wanted was the whole content of what he wanted to say.
Impatient, my eyes settled on his face to detect any clue of anything. Damon's expression was void. His eyes kept shifting from side to side, before finally settling on me.
"What's it?"
I was becoming restless.
"It's a about him. "
"Who?" I asked.
"Brian. " Damon muttered.
The sudden mention of him wheezed out a good amount of oxygen from my lungs. I felt constricted and any minute I was going to loose my breath.
"Which Brian?" I feigned innocence. I knew very well the Brian he was talking about, but my conscience was too adamant to admit.
The question had settled inside my nerves, giving me an extreme anxious feeling. He had to be okay. For the sake of our son, my Brian had to be well.
"What Brian Damon?"
I pressed. Although i was clearly aware of who he was talking about, I needed a confirmation from him.
Instead of giving answers, Damon went silent . His silence was not so comforting. His gaze shifting from side to side neither was it doing any good.
When Damon finally opened his mouth to talk, I wished he hadn't said a word. I wished he hadn't joined us at our table. My evening with Denis and I was going well, until Damon suddenly showed up.
I did not realize the time a lone tear had dropped out of my eye, streaming down my cheek. It was Damon's voice that alerted me I was crying.
"I'm sorry Val. " He said, his face filled with remorse.
"I'm sorry all this had to happen to you. You don't deserve it. "
I sure didn't. I sure did not deserve whatever Brian was putting me through. I deserved forgiveness. The forgiveness I sought years ago when he decide to leave me. Yet, Brian whom I was hoping to create a family with, had lived with resentment and hatred towards me.
In his words, I played him. I chose his wealth over him. I stumbled upon his trust and disregarded his love towards me. I broke him in a million pieces no heart could repair. Alot of crimes Brian was accusing me off. A lot of them, that if he presented his case in court today, no jury could plead my innocence. I would be found guilty!
Perhaps, the damage I did could only be undone by me. My mind took me back to our years in junior school. Brian could do anything just to be with me. He did everything to even get noticed by me. And when I broke his heart for the first time, he's still found it in his heart to forgive me.
Brian McDermott Grey fell in love with me for the second time. He embraced me like I had never left his life. Like I hadn't chosen someone else over him. In his words, that was very childish of him to overreact like that. Changing schools because of me was so uncalled for. What mattered at that moment was that I was with him again. I would not leave him. I had chosen him.
Brian was indeed deeply in love with me. What could have triggered him to have such a change of heart? Was what I did any different from junior school? I did not cheat on him. Even when executing my plans, I stayed loyal only to him. A woman can only win if her eyes are set on one goal. Perhaps I was too ambitious. How could I undo all these?
"I need some time alone. "
I had excused myself and left Damon's company.
The ride home was so silent. A sense of tranquility washed through the atmosphere, setting a good audience for my thoughts to wander. I thought about everything that might have happened in the year we had been apart.
I thought about the turn of events that rode us to where we were. Once upon a time, we were the envy spoken elite couple in town. Now we were enemies. How did everything change so fast.
In Damon's voice, I was the only person who could stop Brian on committing the mistake he was about. It was only I, who could implore him to have a change of heart. He still loved me, Damon had said. He was just too hurt to think with his heart. He says, an alpha man does not rule the world with his heart. It his mind that makes him a conqueror.
He was right. My Brian was right. But getting involved with the underworld was not a solution to mend his broken heart.
After carefully putting all the pieces together, I now understood the sudden disappearance of Brian McDermott Grey. He was skillfully plotting his comeback. This time round, he was not coming back as the elite bachelor Brian McDermott, but as the husband to the princess of a drug Lord.
One thing about Brian was that, he never liked to get involved in anything that could harm himself, reputation or his family. This was not Brian. Something must have implored him to think he was in love with Mercy.
Everyone in town knew who Mercy's father was. Getting involved with her is like getting into bed with her father. Brian was making a very big mistake. In all the years I had known him, Brian was someone who carefully thought about his decisions. He acted diligently in everything he did. Not this.
I suddenly understood the reason behind the worry Damon had earlier. Making a drastic move of coming to approach me, meant he really needed my help.
I was stunned to find out Damon had been friends with Brian all along. Even when we met in college, as him being my supervisor, he was reporting to him, hoping he could reunite us. Damon did not expect Brian to make his mind into marrying someone else.
He had envisioned a bright future, full of life and lilies between Brian and I. He was one of the few people that sincerely hyped our relationship. He had been our greatest fan even before I stepped into the limelight.
Damon had revealed how Brian never stopped talking about me even when he changed schools. It was quite a shock when Brian suddenly stopped talking about me after our recent breakup.
Damon had concluded that indeed he was hurt. His actions afterwards, was doing everything inorder to unlove me. Even if that meant getting married to a drug Lord's daughter, Brian was willing to take the risk!