ROSES FOR RACHEL: EPISODES 61-THE END
Episode 65
The man took a staggering step towards me, dragging his left leg slightly. “I hate that it had to come to this, but really, I’m probably doing you a favor.” The man’s shaking voice whispered as he looked me up and down with his striking green eyes.
Under any other circumstance I might have thought he was attractive, but right now I was frozen in fear, waiting for Calvin to jump to my rescue, but he didn’t.
“Castro, please.” Calvin said. “We can work something else out.”
Castro shook his head and took another step closer to me.
“Calvin?” I asked, my voice rising an octave, but Calvin shook his head at me. I widened my eyes, not sure what to do, so I turned away to run. “Guards!” I shouted.
“Rachel, no!” Calvin yelled at me, but it was too late. The guards swarmed the room, overpowering Castro with ease, although he didn’t really seem to put up a fight anyway.
“Did he tell you what he did to my boy?” He shouted at me. “He was so young! We were supposed to have an eternity, and your mate ripped him away from me! Maybe you deserve to live this way!” He yelled at me as the guards drug him out of the room.
Calvin tried to protest, saying he didn’t want the man harmed, but the guards insisted that he at least be taken to the dungeons. “I’ll get you out!” Calvin promised and the man’s eyes didn’t look hopeful. “I’m so sorry about this.”
The last guard left the room, closing the door behind him and leaving Calvin and I alone in the library. “What was that?” I asked softly, taking in the stress etched on Calvin’s pained face.
He crumpled his face, sitting on the red velvet couch behind him and dropping his face down into his hands while I lingered at the door. “That was Daniel’s father.” He said shaking his head, then he sat up, running his hands up and down his nice tan slacks. “He wants revenge for me klling Daniel.”
“How does he even know it was you?” I asked gently.
He shook his head at me. “Because I wrote him a letter when I returned to the castle, explaining everything that happened and apologizing. I didn’t want him to just never come home and his friends and family be left wondering, so I told him.” He explained. “He showed up here and I talked him into coming in here to talk and try to work something out, but then you came in.”
I felt like he was annoyed at me, and that only made me annoyed at him. “How was I supposed to know?” I asked. “He said he was going to hurt me and you didn’t do anything.” I said.
“Calling the guards was the only thing I could think to do.”
He stood up, walking over to me. “I told you not to come down here.” He reminded me. “It’s alright though. I will give him some time to think, and then I will get him out and try to explain everything to him again. I just need to have him understand what happened. I never meant to kll Daniel.” His eyes filled with tears, but he didn’t let them spill over. “I wasn’t going to let him hurt you, Rachel.” He whispered. “I don’t think he was going to anyway, he’s just hurting.”
I nodded my head, feeling a little awkward here with him now, which made my heart weigh heavy in my chest, all the distrust and secrets were settling between us, keeping our hearts away from each other. “Hold me.” I whispered, needing to feel close to him again somehow.
He tilted his head down, searching my eyes, and when I looked up to him with tears in my own eyes, he looped his arms around my body, holding me tightly to him and I imagined that if he could only hold me like this for the rest of eternity, that maybe all of the little pieces of my heart would somehow morph back to the way they were before. Before all of the hurt. “Rachel?” He whispered, resting his head on top of mine.
“Yes.” My voice cracked around a soft sob.
“Do you know how much I love you?” He asked, rubbing circles on my back with his hands.
“Yes.” I said again. “Do you know that I love you?” I asked him, tilting my head back to look up at him and he leaned his forehead against mine.
“Yes.” He breathed, then sighed. “Do you think that it’s enough?”
“Enough for what?”
“To keep us together.”
I pulled my lips into my mouth, biting down and trying not to cry, but seeing the pain I felt echoed on his face only made it that much harder. “I want it to.” I admitted shakily.
ROSES FOR RACHEL: EPISODES 61-THE END
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