"Katherine, please..." Henry finally murmured. His casual act began to crack when he realized that Kate kept staring at him with that cold gaze as if she was ready to kick him out herself.
"This is for our baby. Do you know how worried I am? You’re probably only a few days before going into labor. I can’t leave you alone," Henry said.
...
Kate said nothing but began to feel the love and hatred brewing in her heart, making a poisonous mix that only corroded her heart even more.
Her eyes began to pool with tears as she kept staring at that pair of desperate and vulnerable erald eyes.
"Katherine..."
"Chloe, Vernon, I will have to return to my room now. I have sothing to talk to with him," Kate said.
"No need. You two can talk here. We will wait outside," Vernon said. He grabbed the remote and turned off the ho theater.
They got up and left. Chloe was worried that sothing might happen if they left Henry and Kate alone, but she couldn’t do much when Vernon firmly pulled her out of the ho theater and closed the door.
Kate and Henry stared at each other for a long ti, no words ca out of their mouths, but their eyes were communicating with the sa notion that didn’t change.
Henry was desperate, wanting to be with Kate, wanting to protect her. He couldn’t spend another second not knowing the fate of his beloved.
"Katherine, please let stay by your side until you give birth to our baby. I don’t want you to suffer alone," Henry said. His voice began to get shaky as he tried his best to control his emotions. He slowly reached Kate’s belly and caressed it, "I promised you that I will protect our son."
Kate grabbed Henry’s hand and brushed it off, forbidding him to caress her belly, "This baby is mine, Henry. You have lost the right to call yourself a father since the day you wanted to give it to Marlon in exchange for wealth and power."
Henry truly regretted his actions back then.
He was blinded with rage, grief, and desperation. He lost his way when two of the most important people in his life were suddenly taken away from him, and Sarah’s words only made things worse.
He beca a monster that followed Sarah’s words without question, taking her poisonous statents as the truth.
"I already told you many tis about my position back then, so I won’t repeat myself, Katherine," Henry said. He gently held Kate’s hand and asked, "But I want redemption. I am begging for your forgiveness. Is there a way for to make up for everything?"
Kate looked down, staring at their hands, and she couldn’t help but shed tears again.
She rembered how he held her hands when they first t. They got drunk together and told their life stories.
Henry held her hand before he made his advance. It was the warst and gentlest touch she had experienced from a man.
She was washed by grief, lust, and desperation.
That night, she beca a completely different person. She beca her true self, a vulnerable woman who wanted to be loved because she had never been loved in her life before.
Everyone never loved her, but they needed her.
But this man didn’t need her, but he was willing to touch her that night.
"Why are you doing this to , Henry?" Kate murmured. "Why can’t you just leave alone? You’re opening my wound again..."
"Because I’m selfish," Henry replied. "I can’t bear to part with you. I will go crazy, Katherine."
"Do you think parting with you is easy for ?" Kate shook her head. "I am also hurting, Henry. I... I love you. Just because I know the truth doesn’t an my love for you will suddenly disappear."
Henry’s eyes widened, he tightened his hand around Kate’s and said, "T—then, let’s start anew and—"
"But staying with you hurt even more," Kate said. "Staying with you reminds of all of my failures in the past. I trusted my mother, Matt, his mother, and Erin, yet all betrayed . I put all my love and trust into you, yet you keep hiding the truth from repeatedly until I have to know it this way."
"Katherine..."
"Henry, I love you, and if that selfishness in your heart still wants more, then I will be honest, I will never fall in love with another man after you," Kate said. "You are the last man I fall in love with because now I realize I’m not worthy of any man’s true love. All of you simply want to use or play with my heart."
"I—I am not going to play with your heart! I changed my mind a long ti ago!" Henry said. He put Kate’s palm on his chest where his heart was beating and said, "Katherine, feel my heartbeat. Can you feel how fast it beat?"
Kate nodded.
"I... I am nervous yet excited at the sa ti. I keep dreaming about you, to the point that my heart will beat faster every ti I see your face, even in my dream," Henry uttered everything that he had been experiencing these days. He had never been so in love with a woman before to the point that he might die because of it.
Of course, Kate would lt when Henry said such a sweet thing. She wasn’t a strong lady when it ca to love.
She was weak to physical touch, even weaker when the man she loved uttered how desperately he loved her.
Yet, at the sa ti, her heart kept on denying it.
Not because she didn’t believe in Henry. Everything about him already confird that Henry was true to his words.
But because she was too afraid to give her everything for Henry, only to be betrayed again. Her heart had been shattered into pieces, and even if he glued it back, the cracks would never disappear.
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