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Chapter-37

CHASE
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ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇʏᴇꜱ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ᴏᴄᴇᴀɴ ʙʟᴜᴇ
ʀɪɢʜᴛ ᴛʜᴇɴ ɪ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ ɪ ᴋɴᴇᴡ
ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ꜰᴀʟʟ ᴅᴇᴇᴘᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ
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Celeste Reed.

She's all I could think about. Her name played in my mind like a broken record twenty four hours.

All my life, I wanted someone to just be with me. There were my grandparents, they never treated me like Marissa and Pete did. They treated me like their own blood but like every other thing, they left too. When I thought I still had Caden, they took him away too. It was imprinted in my mind time by time that no one will ever love me, Caden proved them wrong so they did what they could do the best, took him away. I wished they gave me up for adoption but it was always about their reputation.

By the time I got older, the hope of someone even like me died. Everyone was fake. People who laughed at me when my company was in losses wanted to be my friend when it became one of the top companies slowly. Alec stuck with me even on the days when I couldn't feed myself let alone have a roof on my head. His family treated me better than my own, or what was supposed to be my own did. I'm happy that he punched me in kindergarten. I'm happier that he sent that one resume to me because he thought I needed it more.

If not for him, I would've been sleeping in my office with an empty stomach and no one to come home to. He's never going to hear this from me but he's the reason I have Celeste today.

"All done." I snapped out of my thoughts as she looked up at me, her blue eyes shining in excitement. I looked down at the scribblings she did on my chest.

"Click a picture?" I asked.

"Yes!" She jumped up to get her phone. She wanted to draw on my chest because it looked empty to her. She clicked a few pictures before showing them to me.

"They look great." I tell her.

"They do?" She smiled.

"Yeah." I replied, her smile only getting wider. I swear everything brightens when she smiles, which makes me smile back.

"I love your smile." She says.

I love you.

She kept the phone aside. "You know what happened in..." She proceeded to tell me about her day. It's hard to concentrate on what she's saying sometimes. It feels like a dream, what if I woke up and she's back to hating me?

"Chase?" She said my name, breaking me out of my reverie.

"Yes darling?"

I love how she gets all flustered when I call her with a pet name. She brings her hands up to her cheeks, covering the red.

"Are you listening to me?" She asked after coming back to reality.

"Yeah. You were telling me about your day." I tell her.

"No silly, I was telling you about the apartments I shortlisted. I'll give Luke a call to see them today. It was so diffic-"

"Move in with me." I interrupt her. Why is she thinking about leaving me? Does she not like living with me? Do I make her uncomfortable?