Chapter 300: Done Floating
The human heart was one of the most complicated organs out there. From a scientific point of view, all that it did was pump blood throughout the body. But it was also thanks to the heart that human beings were able to feel so deeply. And because of those feelings, people tended to do irrational things.
That they would not have done if they were not being ruled by their emotions. When Emily had found out that Derek had been cheating on her, she had made up her mind. Just because she loved him, that did not mean that she would stick around and be his mistress.
It should have been as simple as that. But her traitorous heart, had left behind a sliver of hope.
I am leaving, but if he comes to find me to explain everything in person then maybe, just maybe I might take him back. She should not have had such a thought in her mind at all.
All things to do with Derek Haven, should have been deleted from her memories. Her feelings for him vanishing the moment that his mother had told her about her son’s engagement.
But Emily, despite the pain that she was in, had wanted him to have one more chance. As the days had turned into weeks, and he had not tried to contact her in person.
She had taken that to mean that he really had been caught out. That he’d not had good intentions for her from the very beginning. It had added more to her pain. But then Emily had at least been certain in the knowledge that she now knew where Derek stood.
How he viewed her. How he saw that relationship as having been something, that he could easily get over.
But now her mom had just gone and rocked her world. Derek had come for her. He had come directly to the apartment wanting to talk.