EPISODE 46

Catherine's POV:

'Seeing you with other girls

make me angry, but am I the reason

Of that?'

*****

"Hey girl, I saw your text message. What's up? How did it happen?" Talia questioned me immediately. I picked up her call.

"It is a long story, Talia, you need to come over." I told her and she groaned.

"I can't wait. But I can manage so tell me where the hell you are so I can come over." She said impatiently.

I told her the name and number of my mother's house before ending the call.

"Margaret, please can you make that big Mac two? My friend is coming over." I said to Margaret who was rinsing the pot inside the kitchen.

"Okay, young mistress." She responded.

I've told her several times today to stop addressing me as a young Mistress but she never listens.

"I'm going to say it again, call me Cath or Catherine. I feel old when you call me 'young mistress'." I told her and she smiled, showcasing her set of teeth to me.

"Okay Catherine."

I walk out of the kitchen humming to Olivia Rodrigo's drivers license playing on my phone.

Now I can relate more to the song.

It reminds me of all the good times I had with him and now I don't have them.

PAST

I walked out of my house wearing the couple hoodie Ace bought for us.

I like how I always buy the same thing for both of us. It's like you want everybody to know that we are a couple.

I like it. I can't begin to explain how I feel whenever I'm with Ace.

I feel safe, even though we are young I know that you will do anything to make me happy and to keep me safe. He is literally the only one that I can trust and wait for both my body and my heart. He is different. A gem.

Ace and I are neighbors, and we met literally when we were just kids.

I was maybe six and he was seven and now I am 14 and we have established a love so strong that can never be broken.

I pushed the front door open and walked inside the house, I met Ace inside the living room. He has a book in his hand which I bet he can translate word for word.

My boyfriend is just different.

He is smart and everything anyone can ask for.

He smiled immediately when he sees me and opened his hand widely for me to sit between his legs.

"I haven't seen you all day." He said, his mouth shaping into a cute pout.

"I was cleaning up the house and couldn't come and see you." I responded with a smile on my face as he kissed my lips. "But I'm here now."

He raised the book in his hand up to his face and my eyes followed it.

*HARRY PORTER*

I still don't understand the hype around that book.

I'm yet to read it and I won't judge it yet but the book is so popular that I wonder what is so special about it.

"Are you mad at me?" I asked, my hand cupping his cheek.

"No, you gotta do what you've got to do. " He responded and grinned widely, that boyish charm that has always been one of his signatures showcasing itself again. "Let's go to our spot."

I nodded my head and got up from his lap, he stood up and took my hand in his then led me down the basement.

Our spot.

Our safe haven.

A bed lies in the middle of the basement and a couch beside it.

Ace had this place fixed for us.

No one else knows about it but the two of us.

I removed my flip flops beside the bed and lay down on the bed. Ace joined me and wrapped his hand around my waist then pulled me to himself.

I smiled and relaxed my muscles.

I feel safe with him.

"Butterfly, you know that I love you." He whispered into my ear and I nodded my head.

"Yes, I love you so much too." I responded to him.

He twirls a strand of my long golden hair between his fingers and nuzzles my neck.

"I'll always protect you, you will always belong to me." He declared.

I know.

"I am always yours." I murmured back at him.

PRESENT

I guess that promise is now invalid.

He is the one hurting me the most right now.

"Miss Meyers, you have a visitor by the name Talia Scott." One of the guards came to tell me.

I got up from the couch and ran outside.

Talia was standing outside the gate beside her car, I told the guard to open the gate so that she could drive her car in.

"What the fuck is going on, Catherine. I'm confused." She expressed her confusion when we both walked inside the house.

"You remember the day I came to your house and on my way leaving I called you to come pick me up because a car was following me?" I asked her.

"Yes, I remember. What does that have to do with you finding your Mom?" She inquired, still obviously lost.

I explained everything to her and when I'm done, she was hot with rage.

"Your uncle deserves to rot in jail for what he did. That's fucking disgusting!" She fumed and shook her head. "I can't believe that he wanted to trick you into signing your inheritance off to him."

I still can't come to terms with what is really happening.

I've always thought of Vivian as the evil one, I never knew uncle Alex was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

"So you and Ace. Damn. Really? I can't imagine the both of you together. He is so intense and you are..... Soft. Was that why he took an interest in you?" She asked curiously and I nodded my head.

I have got to see him and try to make amendments.

I hate to.

We have a lot of shits to sort out.