Chapter 19 - The Love of My Life

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*At the hospital*


Romeo Morgan's POV


After that day, she didn't drop by to see me anymore. I should have known it. I was deceiving myself when I saw how intimate they behaved around each other for the past few days when I risked uncovering my tracks by following them. I thought maybe it was all just for a show, I thought despite it all maybe I would still be irreplaceable in her heart. But I was wrong, foolishly wrong.


"The blanket is going to rip off in your grip at this rate. Seems like you ain't that sick," Oswald suddenly walked into my ward with the use of euphemism in his words once again."You shouldn't be here," I said coldly to him as I released my clenched fist from the punch that stirred in me at the thought of Juliette being together with Rogan.


Just how do I stomach losing the love of my life and having everything robbed away from me after returning from death.


"Relax, I just wanted to drop by and make sure you are still alright. So when are you going to make your next move?" He asked, faking concern behind the pretence of his devious self.I wouldn't have made the pact with the devil himself five years ago if it wasn't to save myself. Biological or not, I would never view him as my father. He made his intention clear to me back then when I first saw him in Dublin. There was no kinship in him, there was only hatred and the thirst for vengeance towards Owen when he told me how much he wanted to bring down Owen and destroy whatever he has built. He wants his brother to suffer for taking everything away from him, including the love of his life, my mother. When I learnt of Owen's plan to make me into someone just as pathetic as Oswald, I decided to ride on this destructive force of Oswald and change the course of my fate with my own hands.


With Rogan's leaving his CEO position, it gave me even more advantage to carry out my plan. For the past five years, I worked on the facade of being a tamed CEO at their disposal in their eyes, just so I could get their guards down enough to bring down the Morgan's enterprise and seize the power from them. Together with Oswald at the back end, we had been able to pull out loads of transactions that entail traces of fraud, tax evasion and money laundering, a toll of evidence that was enough to get the Morgan's Enterprise in trouble. To ensure that there weren't be a backup option for the Morgan's Enterprise, during my term as the CEO, I had intentionally dumped a large sum of Morgan's money into investment and assets that cannot be liquidated within a short time, crippling the cash flow once the time is right. We were ready to crush the Morgan's Enterprise and have them begging for mercy when we seize the power from their hands.


I thought I would eventually get to own my days of happiness with Juliette after my plan come true and become a man that is deserving of her. But I was caught off guard when my parents proposed my marriage with Julius. I have absolutely no wish to marry Julius, but at the same time, I could not risk losing everything that I have built if I were to rock the obedient facade that I had put up with my parents all this while. It hurt every ounce of me to accept my marriage with Julius in front of Juliette. I hated myself for being torn between the love of my life and the plan that I had tirelessly built for the past five years.


The wedding left me with no choice but to bring forward my plan of destroying Morgan's Enterprise on the day of the wedding with the help of the media frenzy. Everything was supposed to roll out smoothly but Oswald just couldn't contain his excitement to witness the downfall of the Owen. He turned up for the wedding and his presence alarmed Owen. The personnel that we had arranged beforehand for the revelation of Morgan's corruption went missing without a trace.


Oswald escaped from Owen's chase, while I was left with no choice but to run away from the wedding. Regardless, I cannot proceed with the wedding because if the Leclaires gets into an arranged marriage with the Morgans, the downfall of the Morgan's Enterprise would implicate the Leclaires too. The last thing I ever want is to hurt Juliette or her family.The turn of event happened so last minute that I was running short of time. I couldn't locate Juliette in time to get her to leave with me so I came clean with Julius and trusted that she would have passed the note to Juliette.


Little did I know, my world came crashing from that day onward. My first blow was when Juliette did not turn up to leave with me. I left not knowing that she was unaware, the thought of being rejected by her haunts my heart. When I realised Owen had sent men to silence me under the pretence of the search for the runaway groom, the brute of having to escape death from my father hit me even harder in life.


Just what am I? Someone who can't even get love from the only woman I love, someone that even my parents wants to disown, someone disposable and obsolete in their eyes? Abandoned even by my own parents, I am just all alone by myself. The hollowness and coldness of solitude struck me so hard that I felt my mind mired in a mangled state.


I felt a part of me painfully lost when I learn of Juliette and Rogan's marriage. But still, I chose to believe that it was just a paper marriage for a show, after all they had not known each other much. It was this thought that prevented myself from being entirely brutalised during this period of time. Despite it all, I hang on to faith and tread through danger to get my way back to her.


She has no idea how close I was near to losing my last bit of sanity when she tells me I have lost her to Rogan. One moment in my life she is the one who could lift my spirits, the next moment she has my heart cruelly mangled. But I just couldn't stop loving her. Five years, we shared five years together, loving her in the shadows in ways I could. I refuse to resign to fate.


When she said she love Rogan, I realised all that truly ever matter to me was her and has always been her. I regretted thoroughly for being blinded by vengeance for power. I should have seized the love of my life and cherished her from the start.


I wasn't going to back down like this. If there is anything even worth fighting for in my life, it would only be Juliette. I will take her hands back into mine, regardless of whatever it takes.
"I will be going back to the Morgans," I said impassively in response.


"What?! Isn't Owen going to silence you?!" He asked incredulously.


"He wouldn't, couldn't, to be exact. Now that I'm back in front of Rogan and Juliette, there is no more runaway groom excuse that he can use to hunt me down and silence me. Besides, he still doesn't know that I'm involved with you yet. I have to get back to being the CEO, otherwise, Rogan will soon find out the discrepancies in the investment that I had made under the Morgan's Enterprise," I explained.


"Great, sounds like you have got a plan in mind already," He said in good spirits.


"You just need to stay out of this and not spoil the broth like the other time," I cautioned Oswald.

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