Chapter 35
CHAPTER 35
ZYRAN
After making up some excuse to finish my work tomorrow, my boss lets me take the rest of the day off. I can’t stop myself from smiling like a fool as I close my laptop and go upstairs to see my girl. When I reach her office, I see her crying, with her hands over her face.
“Kiara?” I say, rushing over to her immediately. “Tell me what’s wrong and I’ll kill it.”
She looks up at me with the saddest look on her face, and all I want to do is hold her.
“No, that’s why this is happening,” she laments.
I try to run a soothing hand along her back, but when she pushes me away, I immediately know.
Yolanda said something to her, got into her head about me.
“What did she tell you?” I ask murderously.
Kiara shakes her head and wipes her face frustratedly. “It doesn’t matter. She won’t ever speak to me again.”
“You have me now, baby. Forget about her.”
Kiara whips her head in my direction with a look of pure malice on her face. “ Forget about her? How can you say that after everything you’ve done? You’re the reason she doesn’t want to talk to me anymore, and you’re telling me to forget about her?”
I open my mouth to say something, anything, to make it better, but the words don’t come out.
“If you cared about me at all, you wouldn’t be so desperate to get Yolanda out of my life,” she snaps.
“Everything I’ve done has been for you, Kiara,” I say heatedly. “Everything. For us .”
Kiara drops her head into her hands again and cries some more. When I hold her this time, she doesn’t push me away.