''Rose'' I winced when my heavy eyelids opened.  I balanced on my elbows and sat up to see him here, I was obviously surprised to see him here.

''What are you doing here Carter?'' I asked rubbing my temples to soothe my excruciating in my head, it was killing me, but the expression etched on Eric's face made fear grip my heart.

''You lied to me, Rose I, I can't believe that you are alive'' he uttered those words suddenly that broke my soul, again, all these years what I tried to hide, he just knew it? But how?

''W-What are you saying? Have you lost your mind, Carter?'' I tried to don my best straight face , I was failing a bit , Curse me.

''Odette, will you stop hiding from me, Please, you know how much how much I missed you, every second of my life, I thought about you, I thought I lost you'' he whispered holding my hands and tears streamed down his beautiful blues, my heart clenched as his tears dropped onto the carpet. ''You don't know how much my soul craved to be with you, how much my heart yearned to beat with yours , how much my eyes cried to see you , you don't know , now you are back .. I, I have no words! It was you all along! No wonder I had this feeling towards you since the start! Your face! Why haven't I noticed this all this time?''

My throat went dry, My head was spinning, what will I tell him? I have to lie to him , again but what? The happiness on his face was precious but I have to stop this delusion Ric.

I felt his breath fan my lips softly,  before he could kiss me , I jumped back onto the bed , making him pass a frown at me , he was taken aback and I know that. I can't kiss him.

''Stop, Stop, I am not her , I am her sister , umm, her twin sister'' I lied shamelessly, and I kept a straight face and trustworthy face, and his face showed that he trusted me , the way his face broke , shattered me too, physically, I was lame and pathetic and I knew it

''What are you saying? I-If you were her twin then why would you have her ring, her pictures , you are lying again aren't you? Please stop lying with me'' he cried holding my hands,  I closed my eyes and looked away , his tears have always been my weakness, I can't see him like this.

''Because I loved her , and this is , this is my daughter and, and she loved you , a selfish person like you! And to make the matters worse she had a daughter,  But she died before I could, see my niece! You are pathetic because you know why? She died and you decided to make babies with some whore. And I don't want to see your face because I hate you for what you have done to my sister and these pictures and this ring, is the only thing left of her! Well, let's forget all this and now leave! Never mention her name ever again!'' I seethed , tears filling with tears for lying to him without flinching , when did I become such an expert? How can I lie at my Eric, he was the only person who could study me like a book, complete me like a jigsaw puzzle.

''I-I am sorry, I missed her so much , I never knew that she had a sister , Maybe you must be split when you were adopted, I understand, thank you for letting me know Ms Kathrine'' Eric apologised wiping his tears with the back of his hand ''I am sorry, but not sorry for loving Odette endlessly and forever because that is the best choice I ever made in my life, loving her '' he announced before looking at the magazine that was peeking from my bag. He trusted my words like it was true, His face was broken beyond despair.

One was an old Vogue Magazine which was featuring me and other one was the latest Forbes Magazine featuring him, Now what will he think of me?

Eric moved his fingers over my old picture, tears refilled his beautiful blues before he sighed and picked his magazine, I loved my auburn hair, I raked my fingers through my silver locks to reminisce the feeling that once I had long autumn hair that he loved.

''You keep this too? Wise, you love your sister so much it seems'' he whispered with a straight face , I looked away , what was I doing?

''I thought you hated me Kathrine, filthy liar! then why my latest Mag cover? Why do you keep it'' he cussed , more tears streaming down his eyes , cascading down his neck into his shirt , I gulped and glared at him , yes , I am a liar , I lied about being the twin to me , does that make any sense?

I did not say anything and looked away from his glare, my breath pacing, tears streaming down my eyes , this hurt me so much, he was too beautiful to be broken yet I am breaking him, But I had to because he died once because of me, I will kill him and I can't let this happen again, I am just a threat for him, not in this birth, I love him too much, too much that it pains to let him go , I bit my lips to keep myself not to burst myself into tears, Why should I be made to lie to the only man I ever loved.

He turned to walk away when I jumped forward and grabbed his wrist, he shot his eyes at me, filled with rage , I sighed and whispered ''Stay''

He frowned quizzically , I burst into tears and wrapped my arms around his waist , I could feel his heart race , In knew he was confused as hell , but my nails dug into his back hugging him tightly as possible , this is the last time I am going to hug him because I decided to get married to Jaxon because he is the best person I can be with and for Lia also , I know I am wrong .. But am sorry Ric

I felt his hands wrap around me and rub my back to soothe my back, it felt divine ''I am sorry Carter for being rude at you, I am getting married to Jaxon, but I want you to know that she loved you a lot and still does, and she will never stop loving you'' I whispered burying my head in his chest.

He grabbed my chin and made me look up into his gorgeous eyes, I was drowning in them again, I felt the world beside me fade as he tilts his head at me, my eyes just looking into his divine blues with my mouth thing open,  I was getting weaker, please no.

''I know'' he whispered with a smile, he suffered too much, in reality, you don't get any happy endings, you have to live on your own, strive for your place on earth, you won't get your prince charming to take you away in his white horse, you have to find your own.

''Please don't leave me, I am not as strong as you see, I am weak , please.. Stay'' I shamelessly begged , I want him to stay , I lived all these years without him and I missed the feeling of him beside me and now I got him back , he is near and yet so far from me, it kills me that we will never be together.

''You want me to stay? With you?'' he mused ''With you liar?'' he chuckled, I smiled and hit his arms playfully , he ruffled my silver hair and flashed a smile.

''Thank you for changing my perception about you , you seem to be the opposite of her , but I like you'' he whispered rubbing my palm with his thumb , My cheeks turned red at this, why was he making me so difficult to breathe? Did he like me?

He softly leant forward near my ears, making me shudder ''I would never hurt you, ever, I promise , so please don't cry because of me, I have this attraction for you which is wrong, which kept me from killing you and you look beautiful when you blush for me'' he chuckled deeply making me gulp, no pun intended.

He smirked at me, oh those lips are making my heartthrob, I took a deep breath and grabbed his jacket my fingers gripping hard on the soft cloth,  pulled him towards me, my back was pasted to the wall, and the pull made both his hand balance on the wall , our noses touched , our hearts started beating in perfect sync and our breaths paced up , this was simply ethereal.

He looked at my eyes and then my parted lips which were inches from his , I knew he was controlling himself from kissing me , the guilt must gnaw him right? Does he think I am his lover's sister? Nah.

I knew I wanted this but still, I did not , I tilted my head a little and so did, it was inches from our lips to meet when I sighed and moved away from him, I heard him leave a groan of frustration, if I kissed him, then I would never be able to marry Jaxon and go away from him.

I was leaving him and this was final , I wiped my tears and cursed myself, I promised myself a thing-

''I will always love you, Eric Carter, Always and Forever''

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*hides away in depression*

𝚆𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚎 ,

𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚗𝚊 𝙿𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐

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