Chapter 171: Did I just slap my boyfriend?

AMBROSE ADMITTING TO HIS FEELINGS FOR ME WAS A SHOCK TO ALMOST EVERYONE HERE. Me inclusive. My heart fluttered the moment I heard him say that and something like butterflies in my stomach flew all over the place. "But..she's your girlfriend Adam and am not going to try and steal her away...."

"It's not like she could be stolen anyway...."

"Look...Eleanor and I are just friends...I've liked her for a very long time but I've never acted on my feelings because I knew she's with you and will always be. She's an amazing woman and that's a fact. If anything's gonna break you guys apart, it won't be me...." Ambrose dusted his hands and walked away. I held onto his hand but he looked at me in a way that told me it was okay. Adam, seeing that I was holding to Ambrose pulled me away and dragged me towards him. I got angry and pushed him away.

"Adam...you have to leave. Now! How did the guards even let you in...it was invite only ...." I snapped in anger.

"Oh yeah?? So I couldn't come and witness this version of your love story? Eleanor and Ambrose??" He asked with a sly tongue and I slapped him. How dare he? The music immediately stopped and I could tell everyone was terrified.

At least not me. I was firm in my decision and I wanted Adam to leave. I wasn't drunk nor was I under the influence of someone. I was myself the entire time. A sobber Eleanor...

"Elly???" He asked shocked no less than I was.

Did I just slap my boyfriend?

"Adam....why did you come here??? You're being a nuisance.....and you're ruining my party..."

"The one I was not invited to....and now you call me a nuisance for attending the party? Oh my God....if there's anyone who's hurt then it's me....did you think even for a second about how I would feel when I see you snooping around with another man?? Don't you know that it breaks my ego to see my woman with someone else??? You're hurting me Eleanor....and it's sad that you don't see it...." He plainly let it all out making me look like the villain. Everyone held their phones out and started filming us which I really didn't care about at the moment.

"You really are very ungrateful! How dare you question me as if I've done something wrong? I promise on my life I don't regret anything that I've done to this point and even if I die I will not regret it one bit. Given the chance to live this moment over and over again I will choose to still chase you out of my party because you of all people doesn't deserve to be here in the least...." I looked him in the eye when I said it so he would understand me clearly.

I wasn't joking nor was I regretting any word that was coming out of my mouth. I heaved a sigh and blinked over and over again, hiding the tears in my eyes. I didn't want to cry because who would I be crying for?? Adam wasn't worth even my shimmering tear. He humiliated me in front of everyone in this place and now, I had no interest in having the party anymore. I spread my eyes and I couldn't find Ambrose. Where was he?? He was nowhere to be found and he was the one I had to find and apologize to. I needed to say sorry to him for tarnishing his reputation like that.

It was all my fault. My undeserving boyfriend ruined everything including his career. He accused him of all sorts of things forcing him to just admit to the feelings he had for me so that he would just bring an end to the story. I didn't think he would actually like me and even if he did...what??? I had to talk to him, maybe that would explain why I also felt different being with him. I felt happy and free and open minded. It was fun to be with him every moment we spent, I felt like I was with my hero. Could Ambrose possibly be that man..?? Of course he had money and he would in the slightest even by the snap of his fingers order troops to come over and rescue me. He had that power...could it be.....?

I turned around to find him so that we can talk about this once and for all. I was going to say sorry first and then talk about all these doubts I had in my mind. I passed through the crowd but suddenly someone grabbed my hand.

"You're going to him aren't you...??"

"When you already know why are you asking???" I asked back and turned around to leave when he cooked up another drama. "What did I ever do to you???"

"Enough Adam...." I tried to shut up but he wasn't willing to.

"No seriously...what did I ever do wrong?? What have I done wrong that you're punishing me so severely for???" He went on and people started whispering amongst themselves. I knew for a fact it was about me but I couldn't quiet put a finger on it.

"I said enough!! I didn't want to say this because I was acting mature but you've pushed it out if me....." I swallowed hard and looked at him knowing I will not be responsible for what happens after this.

"You received a call to go to Britain and paint the princess' portrait for her coronation and you walked out on me right in the middle of our date after they told you they were sorry for any inconveniences made. I was inconvenienced in that moment because I wanted to be with you.....I had just come out of a traumatic series of events and I wanted to be with my boyfriend but he walked out on me to chase his career....."

"But Elly...you're the one who encouraged me to leave...."

"Because I wouldn't live with the guilt of having asked you to stay with me. And if you really wanted to stay with me, you would have. I was left sad and broken but I managed to pull myself back up and move on. I met Ambrose two days after and he was a good distraction from it all. I got a movie offer and worked myself out just so that I'd forget that I've missed you. And when I heard you were coming back, I planned a dinner at the house....I lit candles all over the house and you have no idea how beautiful the house looked. Ambrose was the one who helped me with it all the way and to think that you would accuse him of wanting to steal me away from you is stupid. I waited for you that night. I sat in the cold waiting for my love who never came because there was a delay at the airport??? Really?? Come on find a better lie....."

"Elly... ." He gasped my name in disbelief. I took out my phone and showed him the video I recorded of the entire place. I remember I was so angry that I tore everything apart. The once beautiful place was irrecognisable.

"I took it all down because you did not deserve to see all the hard work I put in for you....but still, I let it slide and forgave you. I told myself it's Adam, I can wait for him my entire life and each second you weren't there, Ambrose was the one who made me remember how much I loved you and how I shouldn't give up so easily...Then you came and we had our dinner but the entire time, you kept looking at your phone and I kept wondering if you were waiting for someone's text because I was right next to you. I also let it slide until you were invited again to go to England. I asked you not to go but you insisted on going. I needed my Adam to be with me in that moment but no ...he chose to leave and go see a princess instead ..." I cried and he tried to comfort me but I refused. I wasn't going to let him talk his way out of this.

"You kept on leaving me to go to England and do you think I wouldn't get lonely to seek someone else's company? Why do you taunt him when you need to question yourself first. But anywho ..I also let it all slide. We traveled to Las Vegas for the shoot and when you apologised, my heart melted and I knew that you were really the man for me. You told me you would be in Buenos that Saturday so I decided to go and surprise you.....I asked my director if I could shoot all my scenes in advance and take a week's break because I wanted to come here and be with you. I worked myself out trying to shoot small and half scenes. It was exhausting and tiring but I still did it for you....I flew home and decorated the house once again...I planned our dinner all over to make up for the one that got ruined the night you got the phonecall. I waited again....but you never came...instead, I was told you'd gone back to Britain instead of just come straight home. Oh Adam you have no idea how that hurt me. It was in that moment when I realised I couldn't live in that house anymore. I packed my things and moved here ,into my house. And guess who helped me the entire time?? The very man you're pointing fingers att!!" I tossed my finger on his chest, pocking him crying over whatever was going on between me and Adam. Was this ever going to get resolved or this was the end of us?

"Now do you see???" I asked him, who was now quiet. "After all that did you really expect me to invite you to my party? But how was I supposed to be sure you'd come because it'd become a habit of yours to bail out on me!! How did you expect me to not feel insecure about you and dump you....how???" I asked screaming at his face hoping he would get my anger.

"I didn't want to do this. I didn't want to talk about this in public but you forced me to.....I didn't want to say all these in front of them but you pushed it out of me....Why???" I held onto his hands and shook his huge body vigorously waiting for whatever it was which I wasn't even sure of.

"Elly...."

"Get Out.....please .....leave...am begging you to please leave....!"