In her mind, she could still hear Damen demanding that she listen to him – that she let him explain.
“You don’t understand,” Damen had said.
She shook her head. “No. It’s you who don’t understand. I love you---”
“For God’s sake, Mairi! You’ve known me for what – three f**king days? And now you’re telling me you f**king love me? Do you know how f**king crazy that sounds?”
Yes, she knew. She had always known it sounded crazy. But she had grown up believing that someone like Damen Leventis would walk into her life, make her fall in love with him, and then they’d live happily ever after.
Maybe it was crazy. But was it so f**king wrong? Was she so wrong to believe that the kind of fairytales she believed in, the ones that had Greek billionaires in it instead of Prince Charming – was she so f**king wrong to want to believe that those fairy tales could also come true?
She hadn’t bothered explaining after that.
She had simply left.
And now---
Velvet and Mandy were waiting for her by the gates. She didn’t know how they knew she was coming and couldn’t make herself ask. All she knew was that she had reached the end of her tether.
“Mairi?”
The sound of her name, spoken by someone who cared – who really cared for her – was all it took to have her breaking down.
Mairi sobbed, falling to the ground on her knees, unable to stop the harsh heavy sobs that shook her body.
It hurt. It hurt. It hurt so much because she had believed in the fairytale. And the fairytale did happen. She had met her Greek billionaire and had fallen in love with him. But what she didn’t count on was what could happen if the same Greek billionaire did not want to live happily ever after with her.
The End