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” Lucas, you really made the mistake of letting her go, why are you so stubborn?”

Leah, asked.

“Can we not talk about this again please, I don’t want to talk about this alright,”

“You are not going to hear the end of it brother, not when you stupidly let a woman that was meant for you go,”

Lilac chipped in, Lucas could only roll his eyes in disapprove, these ladies were out to get him and he wasn’t going to give them the chance to, it’s been over three months since Katrina left, and so far he has been doing well, well not totally true, he had been a mess the first month she had left, it felt like huge chunk of him had been pulled off and it had taken over a month to find the balance again and now he was okay, two months three weeks, five days and twelve hours since she left him, he didn’t know why he was counting the days and hours but he found himself knowing despite how busy he was, there was always something to remind him of her whether it’s when he forgot a meeting he has to attend or when his new secretaries give him the wrong information or files, or when he was alone in his bed at night, he has completely deserted the bed in his bedroom and choose to sleep in the guest room instead because even his bed reminded him of her, he had thought initially that she had erased herself from his life but soon realized how wrong he had been, she was everywhere, even right now, the first thing his family say when they arrive l for the grand opening of his new luxury hotel was about Katrina, not even a congratulations or a good job and he knew his mom will say the same if she shows up too.

“Where are you, young man?’

Leah asked waving her hands in front of him as if to wake him from his thoughts.

“I am right here, just stop bullying me already, why did you guys come here instead of going to the house to wait for me?”

He asked wanting the both of them gone, he didn’t know how Leah managed to convince her husband to babysit her toddler just so she could come to bully him.

“We are here to ask for Katrina’s house address, I think she changed her number because we can’t reach her,”

“Why do you want to see her?”

“None of your business Mr, she no longer works for you, just give us what we requested for,”

“I don’t have her address, the last time we spoke she said she moving,”

“And that was when?”

“Hmm, three months ago,”

“Lucas?!!!”

“What?”

“You mean you have been lying to us all these while, no wonder Katrina wasn’t taking our calls, are you that foolish?”

His oldest sister attacked, he knew sooner or later they will find out that she left him but he had pushed so much but this was unavoidable, they had to be here for the grand opening of his luxury hotel, he spent almost six months or more to complete the hotel and he was proud of how well everything turned out but he admitted that a vital part of everything was missing, Kat, she should be here to see this, she played a really great role in getting the hotel and he wished she was here, but he had let her leave him.

“Are you not going to say anything Lucas?”

“I don’t know what to say, I told you she quit her job, am I supposed to hold on to her when she wanted to leave?”

“Yes, you are supposed to,”

“Why will I do that?”

“Because you love her idiot, and I still don’t know why that’s so hard for you to get into your head,”

“I don’t know what you are talking about and you guys have to leave now, I have work to do,”

He lied, he had nothing to do here, he had put everything in place and all he needed to do was take a bath the day after tomorrow and head for the opening of his new baby, but he has been free the whole week and it made him think and those thoughts were thoughts he didn’t want to have, work was the only thing that helped him keep his mind off things, off how much he still missed Katrina’s presence.

“We will leave if you give us an address or a phone number,”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

Lilac demanded, her baby bump pupping out.

“I don’t have any,”

“Did Jordan quit too, he might know something,”

Jordan that crazy guy, he had tried asking of Katrina from him but dude shut him out each time, he goes ‘with all due respect sir, I can’t share anything,’

And he had given up after a few tries, he didn’t want him talking about him to Katrina and giving her false hope.

“He is around,”

“Can you get him here?”

“You guys just leave her alone,”

“We are not going to do anything to her, we just want to see her and make sure she is doing fine, not everyone is bad as you are, and she is our friend,”

Leah said eyeing him, all he could do was put a call across to the designing team office and request for Jordan to come to his office, the crazy guy knocked a few minutes later and he watched as his sister rushed on him, they shared hugs and greeting and he wondered just how they became that close.

“So you are telling us you can’t give us her address or a phone number?”

Lilac asked, Lucas, looked on with pity at the man now facing his two crazy sisters.

“Yes, I can’t, Katrina wants a private life which is why she moved and changed her number, I don’t want to disrupt that,”

He said and Lucas finally realized why he hadn’t been able to reach her when he had tried calling her one time, he even went over to her old apartment and was told she moved, he had already known she will because she told him so but he had hoped she was still around.

“Come on, we are her friends we are not trying to harm her, we just want to see her,”

Leah said.

“I can’t, I am sorry,”

“Oh please, you have to take us to her or we will stalk you and find her, what do you mean you can’t? Do I look like a bad person to you? I wanna see my bridesmaid, it’s been over six months since I last saw her, and we were pretty close,”

Lilac replied.

“You guys let the man be, he already said he can’t do it,”

Lucas put in trying to save the guy but two sets of offended eyes turned towards him.

“Shut up if you don’t wanna get a beating from me, you are the reason we are bullying him right now, stupid, if you had not let her go we won’t be doing this, so don’t get me mad,”

“Don’t mind him, if we don’t find Katrina just know you are not gonna get peace,”

His sisters attacked him and he raised his hands in surrender.

“I tried to help you Jordan but as you can see,”

He said and just sat there his ears eagerly listening in on his sisters talking the young man into doing what they ask, he admitted to himself that he wanted to know how she was too, Katrina left a huge mark on him and he hasn’t been able to move on to anyone, he tried going out on dates a few times but he always end up backing out when things wanna get intimate and he decided to not bother again, he made himself believe that it was because he was busy and had a lot on his mind, but in his heart of hearts he knew, he knew it was because no one else stood a chance, there was only one woman he wanted but he had let her go because he couldn’t give her what she asked for, if only he let himself, maybe he could.

“Okay, finally, see ya, Lucas,”

Lilac said picking her purse and he looked at them confused before turning to Jordan who let out a nervous laugh.

“Are you really going to take them to her? I asked you and you refuse,”

“You asked him? That’s interesting,”

Leah said but he ignored her fixing his attention on Jordan.

“Hmm, Kathy doesn’t want to see you, and she never said the same for your sisters, she might still kill me but at least I didn’t bring you,”

“But she is not even in the country,”

He replied.

“She is, she just moved apartments,”

“Oh,”

“You didn’t even know she was in New York, you are such a loser,”

His sister Leah accused.

“Why didn’t you just tell me when I asked.”

“Sorry, but I gave her my words,”

“Don’t mind him let’s go,”

His sisters both said in unison.

“Wait,”

He called when they were almost at the door.

“What?”

They both asked.

“Can you give this to her? I prepared this for her and was going to give it to Jordan, so now that you guys will see her can you do me the favor?”

He requested handling the special invite he had wanted to give Jordan to give her, he made it for her hoping she would attend.

“And If she had been out of the country when did you want her to get here? Dude? I can’t believe you are my brother sometimes,”

Lilac said collecting the invitation card from him and opening it.

“Wow, you are not totally stupid are you, this is pretty and different from other invites, I will deliver it since it’s so pretty, but what if she had not been in New York? What were you planning on doing with this?”

She asked and he couldn’t give her an answer, maybe he would have left it in his locker.

“Let’s go Li, we have a lot to catch up on with her,”

Leah said and they left him standing there, left alone with his thoughts, all he could think about was if she would accept the invitation, what will he do when they meet again, would she still want to be with him? Because right now, if he was being true to himself, he wants her back…