Chapter 70

"Gabriel? What are you doing here?" She asked as the blood drained from her face?"

"May I come inside your house?"

Aurora stepped aside, allowing him to enter. Gabriel looked at her place, once Aurora closed the door, he turned towards Aurora.

"How are you, Aurora?" He asked, taking a step further in her direction and placing both his hands to her face. "You don't know how I missed you, love."

Aurora closed her eyes for a second to gain strength. She gulped and forced a smile on her face. "I am fine, Gabriel but there is something important I want to talk about."

Gabriel nodded. "Anything you want, love. Anything you want but first let me feel your arms around me to feel alive again. I was in hell without you…"

He tried to kiss Aurora but she turned her head and took a step back.

Gabriel stiffened. "Aurora? What happened, love?"

"If you missed me this much then why didn't you call me once, Gabriel. I tried to call you many times but your phone was always off."

Gabriel frowned. "You are right, there is something you need to know to love. I thought I won't tell you about it because I know what she meant to you but I can't lose you. You are the one I have in my life."

"What do you mean, Gabriel?"

Gabriel stiffened hearing his full name from her lips again. She used to call him Gabe, not Gabriel. He could feel a change in her behaviour towards him.

But he needed to make her understand everything calmly, she was his fiancee, he knew she was angry and he needed to cajole her.

Gabriel once again tried to hold her face but Aurora stopped him by showing her hand, "please don't come near me, Gabriel and say whatever you want to say."

"Alright, then listen. I tried to call you many times, Aurora. Many times but your phone was not reachable. I tried to contact you every way but someone blocked my contact and conspired for us to not communicate with each other. I even called that person and scolded her for interfering in our relationship, she warned me to stay away from you. But I don't care about her. What I care about is how can you think that I didn't try to call you. Don't you know your fiance…"

"What are you saying, who interfered in our matters, who conspired against us? Who are you blaming, Gabriel?" She asked, stunned hearing his words?

"Susan, it was her who warned me to stay away from you. You know she even said that you have someone else in your life, I didn't believe her. How could I when I know you, My Aurora can never do something like this to me!" He said with a heavy throat.

Aurora's legs turned to jelly, she forgot how to breathe. "You are lying, Susan would never do something like this, never." She whispered, trusting her friend one hundred per cent. Susan knew how much she hated it when someone tried to interfere in her matters. She couldn't do that.

Gabriel was astounded hearing her words. She never questioned his words ever and now she was telling him that he was lying. She changed this much in a few months. "Aurora, you are calling me a liar!"

"Yes, because I have full faith in Susan. She is my soul sister, she can never do something like it. Never!"

Gabriel nodded. "I never thought I would have to show you proof of something but I came prepared for this," he pulled out his cell phone and started a recording in which he was talking to Susan.

Aurora's face turned ashen. She didn't know what to think and what to feel at this moment. Susan did that to her.

"Did you believe me now? You know you hurt me today with your words Aurora but I am ready to forgive you for them because I know how much you love Susan…" he moved ahead and raised her chin h his thumb and forefinger.

"I love you Aurora. I know you are shocked but you will be fine. We will leave here and marry each other. I can't bear this distance between us anymore. I have suffered enough without you being by my side."

Aurora met his gaze and searched his eyes. She gulped before speaking. "What took you so long to come here, Gabriel? Why didn't you come here sooner, tell me?" Did she ask? "Was your camp more important than our relationship?" She jerked his hand from her face.

His brows jerked upward. "How could you think like that? I wanted to come to you but couldn't Aurora, I was stuck in a situation. I came here as soon as I could."

"What situation Gabriel? What situation are you talking about? I know whatever Susan did was wrong but one good thing came out of it that I came to know about my true feelings. I am sorry, Gabriel but I can't do this anymore. I feel suffocated in this relationship. In these four months, I came to know what true love feels like. It gives you freedom, not a cage, Gabriel. I am sorry but I just can't," Aurora said, with a straight face. She was trying to keep her tears at bay. She didn't want to look weak at this moment.

She looked down and inhaled sharply, before opening the small box in her handbag in which she keep his ring. "I don't have any right over it anymore."

Gabriel glanced at the ring on the box once and then at her face. "So she was right, you found someone else, huh? Who is he? Someone from your class, someone rich just like your father?"

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Aurora stiffened at the sharpness in his voice. "Money has nothing to do with it, it's how you made me feel, Gabriel. Caged. Imprisoned."

"Caged! Is that what you call my love now! Great Aurora," he stepped back and clapped "bravo! Now, my love was imprisoned for you but I recall you telling me how good you feel with me. Tell me what I did wrong, tell me!" He snapped at her.

Aurora gasped hearing the violence in his voice. " I gave you my heart, my love, my emotions, everything to you. I accepted your childishness, helped you in growing up into this maturity," he gestured at her body up and down with his hand. "I didn't let you feel any less even knowing that you can never give a man pleasure with this frigid body of yours, Aurora. What more can I do to make you feel love, Aurora. Answer me."

"You could have accepted me the way I am Gabriel. You tried to change me for yourself, you tried to control me. I had dreams but never believed in them, you wanted me to wash dishes in your restaurant when I wanted to design jewellery, you mocked my dreams…"

He grabbed her hand tightly, "I tried to show you the reality of your dreams. I tried to show you that you were nothing without your father's name but I was wrong and no one's happier about it than me. You proved yourself in this world without your last name, congratulations on it. But what about me? Am I nothing more than a toy to you who you want to discard like old clothes because now you have found a new toy? What did he have that I don't have except for money?"

Aurora snatched his hand from his grip. "I already told you, it has nothing to do with money. I just don't feel anything for you anymore Gabriel…"

"So four months were enough for you to forget your lifetime promises," he chuckled. "I was in the hospital, fighting for my life but your face gave me strength to fight for it. I told myself every night that my Aurora is waiting for me but I didn't know the girl for whom I defeated death ran into another man's arms the first chance she got!"

Aurora left the breath she was holding. Hospital? "What hospital? What happened to you?"

"Why do you care? You don't love me anymore. What does it matter to you that some people attacked me? They tried to kill me. I somehow survived their attack. The police kept me under their protection for three months, Aurora. I was in a hospital bed, fighting to come back to you, to meet you, hold you again in my arms but when I came my beloved stabbed me in the back by telling me that she didn't love me anymore. Didn't you feel any shame while cheating on me, you unfaithful who*e!"

Blood drained from her face, her hands went to her lips, a loud gasp left her mouth. "Gabriel!"

Gabriel cursed himself. "I am sorry, I got emotional for a moment, I shouldn't have talked with you like that. I am sorry. You called my love a cage, Aurora, then I am freeing you from this cage, you are no longer imprisoned with me," a chock left Gabriel's throat, tears descended her cheek in anger and pain. "Be happy, go and live your life the way you want with the man who showed you what love feels like."

"Gabriel! I didn't know about the attack. I will ask dad…"

"Keep your sympathy to yourself, Aurora Kings. I don't need it and don't show me your father's money. I didn't have much but what I have I am happy with it. You want me gone right, don't worry, I will leave you with your prince charming. I will leave your life without a single word but you won't find peace in your life Aurora. I loved you with everything in me and you threw me out of your life like an unwanted insect. Thank you for teaching me how wrong I was to believe you. Thanks to your greatness, I will never believe any girl again, I will never be able to love anyone again. But you, I wish you all the best in life, be happy, Aurora."

Aurora didn't want to hurt him, she only wanted things to end smoothly, this was too brutal for her to bear. "Gabriel, please, I never intended to…"

"No, you are right, Aurora. I was wrong when I tried to change you but I told you before why I was doing that. I feared losing you. I thought if you accept my lifestyle then there won't be any problem for you in future with me but I was a fool to believe so. I was a fool. I don't have any right to be here anymore, but you don't feel guilty about anything. I will learn to live without you. I will learn to live without your presence in my life, without hearing your voice, no matter how much it kills me from inside I will bear this pain for your happiness. I was selfish to behave like that with you but not anymore. Go and live your fairytale happily ever after. I give you freedom from this cage, my last gift to you, Aurora," he pulled her closer and placed a soft kiss on her head.

"Forgive me for making you feel like that, but I promise if you ever need me again, I will be there for you, if not as a lover than a friend. Aurora."

He kissed her head once again, looked at her face in painful agony and walked out of her house without glancing back a single time.

Aurora watched him walking out with numbness, her mind was blank. She felt like a lifeless body at this moment.

On the other hand, Liam asked the driver to drive as fast as he could. His body was restless since Mike told him about a man coming to meet Aurora. He needed to know who the man was but he was stuck on the road. The distance felt neverending with every passing second. "Drive faster!" He barked at the driver and called Mike to know what was happening there.

"Sir, he left crying," he told Liam the moment he accepted his call.

"Follow him and find out who he is. Go!" Liam ordered, he was going mad thinking about the man and why did he meet Aurora?