Somebody To Love (#4)

CHAPTER 22: Why?

As said, Everette was down there within half a minute and marched to his brother's office. Shocked to see him like this.

"Gareth, what the hell is wrong with you?" He yelled.

Gareth stood with his back towards him, his head hung low, hands at his sides, palms folded into fists.

Hearing Everette's voice, he slowly turned around, his jaw clenched and eyes red with rage.

Everette took a cautious step towards him. "Brother...what happened?"

"She left me." He spat. "She left me. That's what happened."

"What?" Everette stepped even more closer and gently placed his hands over his shoulders. "What do you mean by she left?"

Gareth's bottom lip quivered, tears welling up in his eyes, his voice cracking. Not full of anger like it was before. But a broken, soft voice. "She left me, brother." And he hugged Everette tightly as he broke down, placing his head on his brother's shoulder. Everette's heart broke on seeing him like this and he hugged him back.

"She left me, brother..." He sobbed. "She said she would never...yet she left me. She left me..."

Everette had no words to console his brother as his mind wondered why she would leave him when she loved him.

"I loved her..." He cried, his tears soaking up Everette's shirt. "I was happy. I fell in love with her...I finally found somebody to love and she left me...she promised she won't."

Everette pulled back and held his shoulders firmly. "Listen to me, brother."

Gareth's head was lowered, tears streaming down his face, and he refused to listen to Everette. His legs wobbled and he fell down on his knees, holding his head in his hands breaking Everette's heart further.

Everette crouched down in front of him. "Gareth...just for a moment...think. She loved you...why will she leave you?"

"She d-didn't..." His voice cracked. "She didn't...she never told me she loved me..."

"Did she give any reason as to why she left you?"

Gareth sniffed. "She...she messaged me...she said...that... it's too much for her...and she is leaving...she left..."

This didn't sound right. She loved him, didn't she? How can she leave? And why?

Everette grabbed Gareth's arm firmly and pulled him up and dragged him over to the couch which thankfully wasn't destroyed by him.

He made him sat down on the couch and he continued to cry as Everette pulled out his phone and dialled Aeryn's number.

"Aeryn..." He spoke as soon as she picked it up. "Can you come to our office? Right now?"

"What happened?"

"Please...just come here..."

"Okay...I'm coming."

Gareth placed his head on Everette's shoulder, tears refusing to stop as he closed his eyes and Everette wrapped his arm around his shoulder consoling him.

Twenty minutes had passed when Aeryn reached the building and Everette told her to come to 40th floor.

On reaching that floor, Kyle guided her to Gareth's office and she gasped on seeing the condition of it. Everette placed his finger over his lips, telling her to be silent since Gareth had fell asleep with his head on Everette's shoulder. Streaks of tears still visible on his cheeks, a frown etched on his forehead and he kept mumbling Harper's name in the sleep.

Aeryn sat down beside Everette concerned about what all this is about.

"Eve..." She whispered. "What's wrong with him and Harper...she seemed to have disappeared...do you know where she is?"

"Gareth received her message earlier..." He whispered back and explained everything to her and even called Kyle in who told them how concerned Gareth was about her.

When he finished explaining, Aeryn spoke immediately with confidence. "She would never leave him, Eve. She was in love with him. She would never do that. I believe her."

Everette glanced at his brother and placed a light kiss on his head. "Then where is she? And what did she mean by that message?"

"Wherever she is...she is in danger." Aeryn spoke, fear settling inside her.

"Harper..." Gareth mumbled, still sleeping, a tear rolling down his eyes.

Everette's jaw clenched and he gritted his teeth. "I swear if she did it deliberately...I won't spare her, Aeryn. I don't care if she is your friend."

"And I swear, Eve that she didn't do it deliberately. Someone is behind this."

"Either someone made her do it or...she has been kidnapped." Aeryn added hoping Harper's alright.

Why will someone kidnap her? Who has a grudge against her?

And why?

Chapter completion on 23/7/21