Their End, My Beginning novel Chapter 23

*Ryder's POV

I have heard nothing from her after the funeral. I even hired a private investigator to let me know what she was doing and after 2 days as I realised what I was doing was nothing but going to be a big problem for me, I said to P.I not to stalk her anymore. I didn’t want any of my enemies to know about her and use her against me. Also, knowing about her every single minute means it will be very hard for me to not go to her, and hence I stopped my stalking.

After almost 1 and half week later Nicholas and Amanda came to my office requesting to see me. I didn’t want to allow them in, but when I saw my receptionist acting very rudely to them; I lost my mind no and I mean NO ONE TALKS TO ANYONE RELATED TO KAT IN ANY RUDE WAY. And so, I went to talk to them. They mentioned about some computer that was there in the police station as an evidence from the accident of Kat’s parents and that they wanted the laptop. It confused me when they talked about getting the laptop as they needed it for them. But I cleared that confusion immediately because I know Uncle Nick wouldn’t do anything to harm Kat. And I was even more confused when I came to know Kat wasn’t aware of Amanda and Nicholas meeting me.

But that confusion was soon out of my mind when I got the call from Kat after 2 days after meeting with them. I was in my office doing my work as usual and suddenly; I got a call from an unknown number, and I picked up the phone thinking it was some ally of mine, but the moment I heard her sweet voice, that I love so much, I hung up on her. I felt as if my dead heart was going to jump out of my chest.

I never hung up on her, though she had done that many times because of our stupid fights I never did. I was very possessive of her because I always feared that other men would take her and I know she had the same fear when it came to me; we were that madly in love with each other, you can call it toxic, but that is our definition of being in love as cliché as it sounds. Because of that fear I never hung up on her, thinking she would seek comfort from one of her male admirers, and because of the same reason she called me back whenever she hung up on me. And another reason was, I always loved hearing her voice, and it nagged me when I cut her off, and hence, I never did. Again, I was head over heals in love with her