🌹R O S E III🌹

🌹CHAPTER THIRTY - ONE🌹

"Now, we have to get up" I say laughing as we have been in bed for hours and we truly do need to stand up. Alexander has been holding me this entire time for some reason but there is no way that I'm going to complain about it because I do like being in his arms.

He does make me feel safe. He does let go of me when I've said that and as soon as his arms have let me go I feel this longing to me in arms once again and I feel the shivers take over me as I grow rather cold without his atom around me to warm me up.

"Rose?" He asks me and I look at him and into his face. "Do you forgive me?" He asks me. I smile at me as I get back on the bed and capture his lips. His lips are so sweet and I wish I could always kiss him but I do break the kiss. "Of course I forgive you. I already told you that I did and I meant it" I tell him and smile at him as I turn around and go to the walk in closet.

I find clothes that I want to wear and then I dress myself and go back into the room to see that Alexander is in the shower. Smiling I head downstairs to the dining room to get some breakfast and as soon as I enter I smell the heavenly smell of food and my stomach growls, wanting nothing more than to dive right in.

However, I do sit in the seat that I'm always in and I just sit there, waiting for Alexander to come for breakfast or I think it's now brunch since it's between morning and noon. I sigh in happiness as I sit there, my life has turned into one of happiness.

There has been so much pain no agony but now we're happy and free. The doors open and Alexander walks inside but the look on his face doesn't match mine in the happiness but rather sadness. "We need to talk" He tells me. I give him a puzzled look.

Something about the look that he gives me lets me know that he's about to give me some bad news and I know I won't like hearing them, not at all. "All right, what about? If this is about yesterday than don't worry, I've already told you that I forgive you for that" I say to him but he shakes his head and sits down in a chair beside me and turns to me.

"No, it's not about that. I know you've forgiven me about that. It's about something else. Something that I've been meaning to tell you for the past two months" He says. I put my hand on his to reassuring him that it's all right, that he can say whatever he wants.

"Rose, it gives me no pleasure in saying this..." He trails off. I don't think that he knows how to tell this to me. The more that he waits the more nervous I get that it is something bad. And I start to think of the worst which I hate doing, I don't want to think of the worst but he's making me do that if he doesn't tell me.

Alexander then stands up and gives me a look of anger. "I don't want you anymore. It's over Rose" He simply says. As the tears form in my eyes my jaw drops open and I give him a confused look as I stand up. "What are you talking about? Are you breaking up with me?" I ask him in sadness.

I can't believe that this is happening. As he nods his head and turns to the door. "I want you out by the end of the day" He says and I drop to the floor, crying as the pain inside my heart is just too much to bear for me right now. This has to be a mistake.

Just minutes before we were in each other's arms, lovingly. What changed? What happened? I sit on the floor as the tears are streaming down my face. My heart is hurting so much that the stinging pain is too much for me to handle as the tears of pure agony roll down my cheeks.

While the pain may not be physical, it feels like someone has just ripped my heart our of my chest and then crushed it and stamps on it as it shatters into a million pieces. The pain is so much that I can't take it. A headache has formed inside my heart but that is nothing compared to the pain inside my body.

Sobbing and crying on the floor I finally pull myself up from the floor after what feels like hours have passed. Standing up feels like it hurts me. I walk up to the bedroom and knock softly on the door but when I get no answer I open the door.

Seeing that the room is empty I take out my phone and laptop and walk with tears still fresh coming down my face to the door and down the hallways. The mansion is empty as there aren't many there but it feels empty, like my heart. The dullness in my eyes as I walk down the hallways and to the front entrance where I exit the house.

It feels like I've just walked out of there but a part of me remains still in there as I left my heart with him. My heart and soul belongs to him and him alone and now that he has broken it but the thing is, it still belongs to him. He owns my heart and he owns my soul because I gave it to him because despite he might not love me anymore, I love him more than anything.

Looking at the two rings on my finger and sadly smiling as I remember how he gave them to me, one by Mrs. Ryder who I knew by Ms. Scott at the time and one when I found it in the garden. I take both rings off and lay them on the step near the door as I walk away.

Then the thought comes to me, he broke up with me. He actually broke up with me for real. Perhaps the love that I thought he felt for me disappeared when I went into the coma and perhaps... no, he can't be. He can't have found another woman already.

But he has broken up with me. After everything we have been through, I thought that he cared about me the same we I care about him. With pure love. Sadly I turn around and walk away with tears streaming down my face. As much as everything inside me wants to turn back around and jump into his arms.

Have him tell me that this is just the sickest of them all and that he's just messing with me in the worst way possible and he will tell me that he loves me the same way that I love him. With my... well, now shattered heart but I still love him more than myself.

I don't know where to go but I just continue to walk until I find a part where I sit down. I would say it's about noon as I sit here. People go past me and probably give me crazy looks but I don't care about anyone else nor how they are looking at me. I put my laptop and phone down and then pull my knees close to my chest and just allow myself to cry.

Watching people with their loved ones, couples walking around brings me even more sadness to me as I stare into space, not wanting to see happiness from others. "Are you all right?" A man asks me. I look up to meet his worried glance as I slowly nod my head.

He sits down next to me and looks down at my finger to see the tan line of a ring. "He's an idiot" He speaks to me and I nod my head at that. Alexander was an idiot for breaking up with me and I don't even know why he did it and he left before he could even explain it to me.

And as much as I would love to storm to him and demand him to explain why he did that, I can't. Mainly because I've no idea where he is nor do I know where to find him. "Do you have anywhere to go?" He asks me. I think about it for a moment.

I could always go to my mom's but I don't want her to see me like this, she's been through so much and seeing me break down like the way that I am as I want to be strong for her, I want her to know that I am strong but in reality I'm not strong.

Shaking my head at the man but that only brings me into more sadness than ever as I realize that I don't want to bother anyone. I'm a crying mess... well, I think a mess is not the word for it. Horrible mess is more like it and I most likely look horrible too.

I'm not enough for him as he doesn't want me, that is what he said. "You can stay with me. My roommate moved out last week and I've got a spare room if you need it, just until you get better and realize that a man that dumps a woman like you doesn't deserve your tears" He says, trying to lighten the mood.

I look up at him with a half smile but I'm sure it looks bad as my face is red and puffy from crying and I've got dried and fresh tears on my cheeks, I look like a zombie. I slowly nod my head as I don't trust my voice anymore. He smiles at me and helps me stand up.

Picking up my phone and laptop I start walking alongside him. "I'm Eric, by the way. Eric Strike" He says with a smile on his face. I look at him with a look that tells him that I don't want to speak and he seems like he understands. "You don't have to tell me your name yet" He tells me.

Why is this man so nice to me? I look like a horrible mess and I'm crying and I've just been broken up with and he doesn't even know me nor my name and yet he smiles at me. Eric leads me to his car and I sit down. With a heavy sigh I turn to face the window as I look outside while he drives.

The drive isn't a long one but it felt like eternity as he finally stops in front of a apartment building. "Let me help you" He says as he turns off the car and goes over to my side and helps me out of the car. I feel helpless and weak as my heart does.

The sadness in my heart is weighing me down and I feel like the sun has just gone behind the clouds and the darkness has taken over. Eric leads me upstairs until we're in front of a door which he opens. "Welcome to my home, it's not much but it's home" He tells me as he closes the door.

I sit down on the couch as I could not even stand anymore as the pain inside is just too much for me to handle right now. I can't do it anymore. As he sits down next to me I burst into tears once again but then again I never stopped crying. "Just cry, let it all out" He whispers to me and that is what I do. Cry.