e- Hard tim

sn't planning to run into Nathan today. After everything that happened between us, I told myse

. Knowing that I helped save someone's life, even if it was someone I didn't know, gave me a strange se

a familiar voice boome

art sk

as Na

through steel. Standing before me was a man crumbling under the weight of fear. His designer coat was unbutton

the doctor I had spoken to

ng involved in an accident. Where is she?? Doctor, p

e with one hand. His personal assistant stood a few steps

on his shoulder, "you do not need to be worried. Yes,

she was saved by an an

rned slowly an

e first time since he stormed int

as of shock, grat

ss his face like an

e is B-negative. It wasn't in the blood bank, and time was run

g me for the first time. His steps wer

. You sav

nod

ng time, then the doctor added, "You can see y

e doctor and tur

aid softly, like it hurt h

ospital benches, resting my head against the wall. I coul

he finally came out, his eyes were r

d up to speak, but before I could

tight, raw

bled as he buried his

weren't here today? I have been nothing but cruel to

is tears soakin

matters is that your sister i

slightly, still

at you to something special. No expectati

esit

erability in his voice, the a

. Let'

look after Bella, call

s bo

............

is fingers tapping anxiously against the wheel. When we arrived, the staff greeted him with bows, usherin

rapes. O.M.G............

d as he ordered dinner. The room was filled with the gentle

the silence. "Not the wine, not th

type who talks about feeli

"But today... I can't bottle it in.

nd I reached out, gently

me abou

, he did. He ev

ated her way into the family, and his father fell for it. Nathan's mother was pregnant with Bella at that t

gave me a chance to stay with him and be his heir or go with my mother and suff

" he said. "I became her

mmering. "And that hardened me

ned atte

who had been in a coma for nearly twenty years. How Mrs. Rivers and Cas treated me b

back,

mother's na

nod

r talks about her, but sometimes... sometimes I ca

est ti

, but the thought was

aughed, talked and co

bloom in the space

excused myself to

as real. If this new version of Nathan was rea

ned th

here h

Nat

Jas