Irresistible Boss Succumbing to Your Touch (Maria Anita) novel Chapter 387

When Henry pulled me out of the bathroom, I was very confused. What would come next? I couldn’t hold back, and I told him everything that had left me so mortified. He held me tight in his arms and kept talking about his fear of losing me, but at no point during what happened did he come to ask if I was okay, so how could he expect me to believe his desperation was for me?

Maybe he was only there with me out of some kind of moral responsibility because I was pregnant. Alexander was going to marry that woman because he thought she was pregnant, maybe Henry has the same sense of responsibility as his friend.

Ah! I was completely confused and didn’t know what to believe. After eating, I lay down on the living room couch and closed my eyes, wanting to think and clear my mind. Henry lay down with me and hugged me, not allowing me to question what he was doing or push him away, he just stayed glued to me.

When day started to break, I remembered the conversation I had with Hebe a month ago, when she told me how she healed from a traumatic miscarriage. Maybe looking at the sea could do me good too.

I got up very slowly, being careful not to wake Henry, and left the house, walked to that rock where Hebe showed me she used to sit watching the sea. I went to the rock and sat down.

The first thing I felt was the sea breeze touching my face, the salty smell of water hitting the rocks below, and I heard the sound of wayes breaking on the beach, along with the chirping of birds flying around. The day wasn’t fully bright yet, but the darkness of night had almost completely faded.

I began to feel peace taking over me, a calmness, as if my body was responding to the murmur of waves breaking on the rocks, slow, steady, soothing. Gradually I felt everything inside me transforming, and when the first rays of sun began to cross the sky and touch my skin, I felt that ice I seemed to have inside starting to melt and warmth heating my veins.

Sitting there, alone with the sea, first I cried, then I sighed, releasing all my woes, and then I began to feel my heart beating again, rhythmic, warm, restored. The moment the sun showed itself in all its splendor in the sky, I felt renewed and ready. And it was at that moment that a steaming mug was placed in front of me.

“Coffee?” I asked as I stretched my hand to take the mug.

“Not today. Today it’s hot chocolate because we need comfort.” Hebe handed me the mug and sat beside me. “Do you mind?”

“Of course not.” I smiled at her. “I borrowed your spot for a bit.”

“It’s magical, isn’t it?” She asked me with a smile.

“Completely!” I replied, still admiring the immensity before me.

“It’s here for you whenever you want.” She looked at the sea. “Want to talk about what happened inside you?”

“Are you willing to listen?” I looked at her as she watched me with gentle eyes.

“I’ll always be here for you, you’re like a sister to me now.” Hebe was always welcoming and kind.

“The love I feel for Henry is beyond me, beyond what I can control or what I imagined existed in the world. It’s a deep connection.” I started there, maybe she would understand the fear I felt. “Yesterday I felt as if I lost him, as if he didn’t love me,

as if he couldn’t see me, and something stirred inside me…

“Like a stormy sea,” Hebe finished my thought precisely. “You know, Sam, I believe in soulmates, predestined loves, people born to connect on a level far beyond human understanding. And I think you and Henry are soulmates because he feels exactly the same way about you, with that love that’s waited a lifetime for you, you know.”

“But Hebe, yesterday he turned all his attention to Isabella, he didn’t even bother to ask if I was okay,” I complained like a petulant child.

“Sam, he knew you were okay. He protected you, pulled you away from the car and held you. Like he said, he looked into your eyes and saw you were safe and well. But Isabella wasn’t,” Hebe sighed and continued with worried eyes. “You know, Sam,

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before you, Henry lived a free life, never getting attached to any woman, but he would always hook up with Isabella. She was constantly after him, throwing herself at him, and he would end up sleeping with her, but he never led her on, always made it

clear it was just sex.‘

“He told me about that. And she never gave up on him,” I said, meeting Hebe’s eyes.

“No, she never did,” Hebe agreed. “And then you came along and completely transformed Henry, that’s why I say he waited his whole life for you. After you, he never got involved with her again, mean, after you caught them together, that was Reynold’s fault. But that day was the last time he was with her, that was a long time ago.”

“Yeah, it seems so distant now.”

“Yes, Isabella has this obsession with Henry. I don’t believe it’s love, it never was, it’s just the desire of a spoiled woman,” Hebe spoke as if explaining something to a child, slowly and carefully. “However, somehow, Henry felt responsible for the situation she created. He thinks that because he gave in to her advances for so many years, she ended up creating false hopes, and what happened yesterday was an act of desperation. He feels guilty, Sam, for her being in the hospital and, especially, for her almost killing you twice. Can you understand that?”

“He thinks it’s his fault that she’s a crazy person out of control?” asked skeptically.

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