Free Web NovelChapter 21: First Love
Lyzer and Neal turned to the door and Lyzer’s face reddened in horror. Catherine’s face paled when she realized there was another person in the room with her darling and quickly straightened her dress to cover her nakedness.
Lyzer looked away in embarrassment as his brother turned to his wife. After making sure that she was properly covered, his face returned to glare murderously at the lousy thing.
Neal’s gaze softened on his mate and he was once again reminded how he didn’t hate everyone.
’’Oh, Brother-in-law...’’ Catherine said quickly in a blush as she composed herself.
’’I will do as you wish, brother. Excuse me, I have patients waiting for me at the clinic.’’
Neal didn’t spare him a glance as his gaze remained on the one thing he truly valued since he walked this earth.
Catherine tried to earn a smile from her brother-in-law but was ignored.
Neal beckoned her with an outstretched hand and she answered. His gaze burned down on her face possessively as his hands cupped her cheeks softly. He then leaned down to kiss her.
Catherine fell back on the large, dark bed in the room as he hovered on top of her. Red peeked through his dark grey eyes as he asked, placing himself between her thighs and Catherine prepared herself to be loved by him again tonight.
’’Who are you most loyal to?’’
He pressed soft kisses along the sensitive curve of her neck.
’’Your world?’’
Catherine shivered as he had her pinned to the bed. Her dark red robe fell just enough to reveal her creamy thighs. His hands moved slowly along her leg before gripping the base of her knee hard. His weight pinned her beneath him, drawing another shiver from her.
’’Corrine?’’
Catherine moaned when he buried one of his hands down her robe to fondle her breasts.
’’Or me?’’
He waited for her response, one hand hard against her left breast. Catherine closed her eyes tightly at the pleasure of his mouth behind her ears.
’’You...’’ She whispered. ’’Always you.’’
’’Then,’’ he moved to bury his face deep in her hair, planting soft, loving kisses down her face. ’’Will you betray me if I told you, your daughter has just one year left to live?’’
Catherine...froze at the news before she cried out in pain as he entered her, claiming her body once again until she truly was his.
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Corrine noticed a gas station as she was returning home one evening and decided to purchase gas there.
She drove through the entryway and parked beside one of the front pumps. Another car followed behind her and stopped in front of her car.
Corrine turned to her purse and paused when there were two like it.
She shook her head, blinking when it became four and then her vision blurred, followed by a sickening ringing in her head.
’’Ahhhh,’’ Corrine cried out as she leaned on her steering wheel to sob when the pain seized her in waves.
This time, there was a throbbing sensation and she couldn’t see clearly for a while.
’’I told you you shouldn’t drink last night.’’
Corrine froze at the familiar voice. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
’’Hahaha, dickhead.’’
She raised her head quickly, her hands tightening around the wheels of her car and she stared through her windshield.
Suddenly, the pain ceased and tears clouded her dark green eyes as she stared at Henry.
Her Henry. And someone else she hasn’t seen him with before.
They both came down from the car parked awkwardly before hers and for a moment she prayed this wasn’t a dream. Some optical illusion the tumors in her head were currently teasing her with.
She wasted no time and hurried out of her car like she was being pursued.
’’We have been visiting that club for five weeks now and you still haven’t gotten used to their tequila,’’ the guy getting out from the driver’s seat joked with a grin.
Corrine...paused.
She stood there like a bucket of ice water had been dumped over head.
Her legs refused to take another step as she stared at both men like they weren’t humans.
’’You mean the cheap club currently using the bottom floor of my house?’’ Henry raised both eyebrows as he said in that deep, dark sexy voice of his. He looked taller and bigger. His head was still shaved as he smiled at his friend.
’’You really are a wasted man. Let’s go grab what we came here for and leave this place,’’ the boy, shorter with wild, frizzly blonde hair and braces around his teeth, urged as they locked the car and walked up to the convenience store by her right.
Corrine thought it was a miracle they hadn’t noticed her standing there.
Her world did a funny spin, tilting at an angle that revealed a very nauseating truth to her.
Finally, she moved and quietly returned to her car. She sat there for a while, looking like an empty shell. Her hands loosely around the steering wheel as she waited.
She wondered why she didn’t call his name.
Why didn’t she run to him and wrap her arms around him and cry as much as she wanted in his arms.
Everywhere suddenly felt empty.
Weightless and...Grey.
But he told her he had been in China all this time?
Did he lie—-SLAP!
SLAP!
SLAP!
Corrine broke down in tears as she kept hitting her face repeatedly. Her head fell limp against the wheels. How dare you think he will dare lie to you?
Henry will never do such a thing. freēwēbnovel.com
She remained in that position for a while. The sound of his laughter jolted her awake as she stared heartbrokenly at her first love.
Him and that guy seemed awfully close as they raised their voices and rolled in laughter. They each had in their hands plastic bags wrapped around what looked like loaves of bread.
’’We partying tonight, dear?’’
’’Sure,’’ Henry said while settling in the passenger’s seat of the car.
Go to him.
But Corrine hesitated, hands trembling as the car roared to life and they drove out of the gas station.
She followed them for a while on the lonely highway, thinking and missing him so much she was tempted to drive past them, overtake and pull him out of that car.
But when the car turned to the left of a forked road, Corrine didn’t make the turn. She kept her eyes fixed on the road that led home.
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Corrine stumbled through the entryway of her home. Her car keys dangled loosely in her hand as she struggled to remove her heels and slid out of her jacket.
The cold was nothing in comparison to how she felt. The dead silence of her apartment made the constant ringing in her head even louder as she pushed through the door of her bedroom.
A quick flash of lightning through the closed windows as she rushed for her bathroom. She could no longer hold it in to reach for the toilet seat so she paused before the basin and vomited her guts.
The sound of her retching echoed through the bathroom and it went on for minutes. Corrine feared she was going to die tonight.
But nothing could have prepared her for the next thing.
She coughed repeatedly and once the fit had finally passed, her hands trembled as she reached for the silver taps.
Corrine froze when what she threw up this time wasn’t french fries, burgers or the coffee she had today.
It was blood.
There was blood all over her sink.
