Chapter 322: It’s Too Late.
Back inside the ward, Laura studied the couples before her. She smiled at them and unlike in the past where it would be fake, this time it was real and pure.
She was happy to be before them. It surprises her they haven’t done anything out of their character to her. Did the news about Alfred and images of Adele not get to them and haven’t Arissa told them all she knows yet? She asked in her thoughts.
Beatrice flashed her normal loving smile towards Laura and when she did, the urge to hug her so tight just like back then when they were friends in college covered Laura but the courage to bring it to reality wasn’t there. Especially not after all she made them go through.
"Thank you for coming," Beatrice appreciated, and a single tear left her eyes. She missed the old Laura so much but that doesn’t mean she didn’t still love the woman standing before her. She can’t tell what made them drift apart back in college but before she knew what was happening, her memories with her once best friend began to fade away and slowly, they returned to strangers.
When she was dying, after Stephen and her daughter, one more person hit her heart so bad. And that person was Laura, her struggles for survival kicked in a hundred times when she realized she would go, leaving Laura behind.
Whatever happened between them never changed her love for Laura. She still loved her best friend to a faulty end and always want to see her happy.
However, she wasn’t dying anymore, at least not so soon, and her friend stood before her. Hence, she rejoiced inwardly.
Laura chuckled and took the available seat before Beatrice. She took Beatrice’s hand in hers after taking the seat.
Placing soft get-well-soon kisses on the back of Beatrice’s hand without her friend not her husband complaining, she looked up at them with watery eyes.
"I’m so sorry I wasn’t here and you had to go through all you went through alone. I’m just glad I was never too late," she said.
Stephen glued his eyes on Laura for some seconds. He cleared his throat after a while and said, "If you should ask me, you’re too late. All the moment she needed you and the period you would have been close to her and stood behind her as a friend, you were never her, and also, she does not need you anymore. Her health is back to normal and if you don’t have any more thing to do than mock us in a pretentious way, I think you should take your leave," his voice wasn’t warm nor welcoming as usual. This time, his voice held cold seriousness in it and a tiny piece of irritation lingering around his words as he spoke.
Laura turned dumbfounded and in great astonishment, she stared at him, her lips slightly parted.