Chapter 54: I Am Sorry

Ch-53

*snap* *snap*

"What is going on in your mind?" Cedric asked her. 

Eleanor came out of her dreamland when she heard someone snapping their fingers in front of her face. She didn't realize she went into a daze just like that. 

"Nothing," she said. 

Cedric knew she was thinking something serious based on her frown. And if she was fighting with her angel, devil, or heart or brain she wouldn't be like this. She would change different expressions and so on. 

"Cedric…" Eleanor started. 

"Hmm?" he responded. 

"Help me," she stated. 

"With?" he asked. 

"Bankrupting Cole family by morning," Eleanor stated. 

"Why?" he asked. 

"To take back my kindness," she said with a sneer on her face. 

Cedric smiled at her words. Indeed, since they don't want her kindness, there was no need for them to have the fruits of the labor of their brother and her father's hardwork and they shouldn't have the money she gave them. 

Looks like the tigress, who slept inside her, was waking up. 

"I will do it," Cedric said to her, making her smile. 

"And?" he asked. 

Eleanor looked at him in shock. She only wanted to make Jessica's family suffer for some time before she started to play with Jacob. But Jacob played a huge part in her grievances. She knew if she wanted to play with him, she had to hold some power in her hands. She knew it would be a little hard for her. She decided to ask for help from Cedric after some time. Eleanor never thought he would catch her hesitation. Indeed he knew her better than anyone. 

"How?" she asked him, feeling curious about how he caught her hesitation. 

"You are frowning even after you asked me about Jessica," he said, raising his thumb to soothe her brows. 

When his thumb finger smoothened her brows she looked at him differently. She felt his finger was slightly warm and it felt like he could see all her worries in a glance. 

"You look at me too much," she pouted. 

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"If I take my gaze away, I am afraid that you may disappear. Or I am afraid that you, I am seeing, might turn into an illusion," he said to her. 

Eleanor looked at him in shock. Was he for real? Was she that cruel to him? 

[You are.] her heart said to her. 

[What do you mean?]  Eleanor asked. 

[You forgot his existence because of Jacob's presence. He waited for you in the shadows for the sake of you. He never revealed the things that could bring a hurricane in your life. Cedric waited for you for many years. Can you say that you never hurt him wholeheartedly?] her heart questioned her. 

[But she never did those things knowingly.] her brain came to reason out. 

[She never tried to remember him. She forgot the whole world for the sake of Jacob! She doesn't have to know that she was hurting a person. Knowing or not knowing but she hurt the person. Just because she doesn't know she hurt him, it doesn't make her any better. She has to do things that can compensate for him.] her heart came with a strong retort. 

Indeed… who cares whether she hurt him knowingly or unknowingly. They only care whether she hurt him or not. 

She looked at his eyes which were filled with fear, love, and tenderness. 

"I am sorry," three words left her mouth unknowingly as she gazed at him. 

For hurting you all these years, for causing you the pain all these years, For ignoring you, for making you sad, for throwing you away, for not being beside you all these years, for making you alone, for snatching the smile on you, for being a jerk, for making you go through the heartbreak, for making you lose confidence, I am sorry from the bottom of my heart. 

These words were her unsaid words. She wanted to say many more and many more things. But she said nothing. Many emotions swirled in her mind, but she didn't know how to console him or herself. Feeling vexed she sighed softly. 

"You don't need to be. I am fine as long as you are with me," he said to her cupping her face. His long palms acted like a barrier from the cold wind. He hugged her in his strong arms making her feel safe and secure. Unknowingly she snuggled closer to him. 

"Make Jacob suffer. He always wanted to be heir of the Boris empire. Help his third brother, so that he would become the heir. Let him taste the bitter taste of his company falling into the hands of a different person other than him," Eleanor said, leaning in his embrace. 

Cedric froze at her words. He actually planned to bankrupt them. But making them go through it is difficult. As she said… they don't need the person they hate to handle the Boris empire. But they can make the person who trusts them work for them. The third son of Boris' empire was a smart person, unlike Jacob. 

Even though he thought about this possibility, he was just too lazy to meet the third son of Boris. So… he gave up that idea. And now… when he heard Eleanor's words… he was surprised that she was thinking just like him. A smile formed on his face. 

If his subordinates saw Cedric all the time, they would have died with a heart attack seeing him smile more than five times. Cedric was known for being a devil. He never smiled. Even in the meeting partners and everyone, he would have an expression saying that he was meeting them for a formality. Or his face says that… you are not worthy of my smile. But today… he smiled so many times that one could keep track off. 

"I will," he assured her. 

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Author's Notes: 

Guys… Let's do something. In every chapter… let's count how many times Cedric smiles. Let's keep a track of the smiles.. The person who answers them correctly and is first to comment will share a screen in the mini-theatre with Cedric.

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