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“Get out of here.” I don’t care if I’m falling in to that trap of his once more. I just want him gone. “Just leave me alone, Daniel. I don’t want to be a pawn in your game anymore. I just want to go back to the place where me and you had no interaction. You have messed everything up for me and I hate it. I hate it.”
With that, I turn on my heels and I stalk away from him, hoping that Daniel will finally get the hint and leave me alone for good. I know that there are going to be more negative stories about me now online, but I couldn’t care less. Everyone is trying to break me down anyway. All I need to do is hold my head up high and find a way to get through it. I am strong, I am powerful, I can do this. This might be the biggest challenge that I have ever had to face in my life, but I need to show Daniel that I won’t be defeated. That I am better than him.Chapter 15 – DanielThree Months Later…Life is sort of back to normal these days. Almost. It took some time and a lot of frustration, but people seem to have finally moved on from the stupid sex tape debacle and they are on to something else. It’s just good that we live in a world where everything is so fast paced and crazy that people have a short-term memory. A lot of them don’t seem to remember that they turned their backs on me at the first opportunity. But now they are back, and I have to let a lot of them in once more because I really don’t want to lose it all.
There is a much calmer atmosphere here these days anyway, which I like. No one seems panicked and stressed thank goodness. The focus is all on work and nothing else. That’s the main thing.
“Hey, Boss, we just got the account from Cambridge Accounting,” Rebecca tells me with a grin. “They were wavering before but now they are fully on board. It must have been that charm of yours.”
“Good news.” I grin from ear to ear. “I’m glad that somehow I have managed to claw it back.”
Rebecca talks to me some more and I have some conversations with other people in the office as well, but I can’t shake off the sense that something isn’t quite right. Not with work but with my life. Something has been missing ever since the day that Gemma told me to leave her alone and I can’t seem to fill that hole at all. I haven’t been dating, I haven’t been interested in anyone else, no one sparks desire within me like she has done so I have been very lonely. But these days, just sex, a one-night stand isn’t enough for me. If it isn’t going to lead anywhere then what is the point? I want so much more, and my life won’t feel complete without it.
But I tried, didn’t I? I did my best with the romantic gesture and it got me nowhere. She didn’t like it at all. She has fully turned away from me and I just know that she won’t come back. It’s a shame because I miss her a lot. I know that we could be good together as well. We were good together. I know that Gemma wants me as well. I could see it in her eyes every time that we looked at one another but she was just too scared to take that step. She has been too scared for me and her to become a real relationship because of all that happened between us. She’s afraid because of the sex tape and all the drama that we have suffered. She doesn’t want more.
Tim doesn’t agree with me. He doesn’t think that my romantic gesture was big enough. When I told him about the flowers he scoffed in absolute disgust at the idea and said that I was a fool, but I think it’s fear.
The day comes to an end much in the same way as it always does, without any fuss anymore, people simply quietly exit the building and head back to their normal lives and I am by myself with nothing and no one. I let out a deep sigh from the pit of my stomach and rest my head on my hands, wondering where I can go next. I don’t want to go home yet; I don’t want to be alone in those four walls where I have memories of Gemma clinging to every part of it. I would much rather head out and get a drink somewhere, something like that, but I also don’t want the hassle of talking to people who I don’t really know. I can’t socialize easily when I’m not in the mood.
