Forbidden Desire. | ✓

(37) Comatose.

He turns on his heels and begins to walk towards his car that he parked behind in the alley so Sahara wouldn't have been able to spot him in the beginning. Once he reaches his car, he leans on it for support.

Sahara runs after Damian, she could hear Ria calling after her from behind but she didn't plan on stopping, not until she finds Damian. The moment she spots him inside the alley, she could tell he was having a hard time processing everything he just saw.

She walks towards him and stops right in front of him,"Damian? Damian, are you okay?" He wouldn't even look at her, her heart clenches. She desperately wants to reach out and touch his cheek but doesn't know how he'll react.

"How do we always end up like this?" Damian finally says.

"Like what?" Sahara asks.

"Like this." He pushes her against his car and grabs her waist, pulling her closer to his chest. He leans down and places a kiss on her forehead.

Sahara's heart is racing, she's missed this feeling so much over the month. However, it also hurts, it pains her that they're like this: so on and off.

She places her hand on his chest, Damian asks, "Do you think we can have another shot at us?" Sahara doesn't answer. He shuts his eyes, taking in Sahara's floral scent. He wraps his arms around her "Maybe in another life, we'll be together."

Tears well up in Sahara's eyes as grips onto Damian's shirt tighter, why couldn't she answer him? This is the only life Allah grants us, there's no coming back, Damian! Sahara yells in her mind.

"We have a beautiful, yet sad and tragic kind of a connection. Were we doomed from the start?" She poses a rhetorical question. His arms get tighter around her waist, scared she'll slip away before he's ready to let go.

She places a hand on his cheek as tears slip down her own cheeks, she laughs sadly, "It's so odd, we work so hard for each other but at the end, it destroys us both. We stay away from each other, it shatters us. We're together, it crushes us."

Damian smiles an almost bitter smile, "And don't forget the fact that we thought it would be best not to see each other, but we never keep that end of our promise."

She lays her head on his chest, "The world is playing some kind of a cruel joke on us."

"Not us, the world is playing a cruel joke on me and you accidentally got entangled in it. I'm finally getting what I deserve after hurting so many people. It's my fault, I never should've brought you into my world, I destroyed you with my own bare ha-"

Sahara crashes her lips onto his, memorizing the shape of his lips using hers. She doesn't want him to continue, she can't let him go like this. She can't leave but it looks as if their fate doesn't want them together, it hurts every time they separate and every time they reunite.

Damian pulls back, as they are leaning on each other's forehead, their breathing heavy. "Would this finally be out last goodbye?" Sahara asks with a tinge of pain in her chest.

"It will, I will make sure of it. I will make sure I never get in the way of your future happiness, I will make sure you never have to see me again, I will make sure I never hurt you again." Damian says in an almost wistful tone.

Sahara crinkles her eyebrows, "What are you talking about?"

"Don't worry, Sahara. It's better to start forgetting about me starting now." He caresses her cheek with his finger and he looks away.

"Damian... why do you sound like that? Why you are you talking as if you're going to disappear..." Sahara says, concerned. She isn't liking the way Damian is saying things.

"Sahara, all I want you to is stay but maybe there's no way we can live this way. We can't work it out, we're not meant to be." He sighs. Sahara squeezes onto the ends of her scarf in unbearable pain.

"Please do not approach me when you see me at Angela's charity event because I know you will be attending with Imran. Do not make this harder for us."

"Please... Damian..." Sahara insides are shattering into so many pieces all over again. Her tears begin falling uncontrollably, her throat constricted from the sharp pain of heartache.

Right before Damian sits down in the driver's seat, he says for the last time, "Please, let this be our last goodbye..."

The Sahara he left behind drifts into a state of comatose: comfortably laying down but unconsciously bleeding, safely sleeping but silently hurting.

• • •

[Sneak Peak For The Next Chapter]

He passes by her, barely giving her a second look. But when he does glance over, he looks at her as if he doesn't recognize her, as if they have never met, as if they never were in a relationship. Is this what he meant, when he said he'll never interfere with her life? Pretend he never knew her? Sahara couldn't stand the unknown look in his eyes, she wants to violently shake him and tell him to remember her, remember them.

- - -

A/N: ahhhhhh!! omg they can just never GET TOGETHER AND BE HAPPY!!! 😢

I just want to know one thing, are you rooting for Damian and Sahara? 👀 Let me know!! 🤗

Please vote and comment and let me know how y'all feel!! // Follow me on Instagram: forbidden.darkness ♥️