Chapter 209

"Oh I see," Grace said, she never knew that he was not happy in his marriage, she had always thought that they were this happy couple who were so in love even though she never really saw passion and chemistry between them, she had always thought it was because of Mike's nature and personality.

"You want to talk about it?" she asked, but quickly regretted what she said

"oh I'm sorry, I didn't mean to poke my nose into your family affairs" she pleaded with him

"no it's fine, absolutely fine, it only means that you still care about me despite everything," he said

"come in and take a seat" he ushered her in

"thank you," she said

"so what do you want to know?" he asked

"Well, anything that you are willing to let me know,", she said.

"Well it's nothing much except for the fact that Patricia and I are just husband and wife on paper, nothing more" he said

"What!! You guys had a contract marriage?" she asked in shock and Mike could not help but laugh at her face

"It's not funny Mike," she said

"yea it's not funny but you need to see the kind of face that you made" he said and laughed a little bit more

"so?" she asked

"We didn't have a contract marriage, what I meant is that we are not in love with each other, you know when you stopped coming around to the hospital as you used to, I felt lonely, and then Patrica started coming around more often, I thought that we had chemistry and that was why I married her, it was only later that I realized that I never loved her, and she never loved me" he explained.

Grace could not help but get teary, how could he put himself through all of that when she was always here waiting for him

"Why did you have to choose her?" she asked

"because there was no other option?" he said.

Grace stood up and made her way out of the office but Mike quickly dragged her back

"Grace why are you always doing this to me? Whenever we are having a conversation, and I'm thinking that we are starting to get somewhere, you just zone out all of a sudden, the same thing you did three years ago," he said, looking into her eyes that were starting to water; he does not understand this girl.

"talk to me Grace what's going on, and I'm not letting you go until you tell me what's going on even if you scream this entire hospital down," he said

"just let me go, I don't ever want to be around a man that doesn't even consider me as an option" she said

"what are you even talking about?" he shouted at her

"What do you mean by what I'm talking about? Why do you keep pretending that you did nothing wrong? You know exactly what you did, and if you still want to deny it, then it's fine," she said and ran out of the office. She needed to get out of the place as soon as possible; she couldn't keep doing this.

Mrs Whitney was about to go back inside when she bumped into jack

"oh I'm sorry sir," she said not knowing who it is

"It's me Mrs Whitney" he said and she looked up

"oh I didn't see you coming" she said

"Are you going somewhere?" she asked him

"not I just want to get some fresh air and give Christopher some time alone with the love of his life", he said.

"Come let's go sit there" she said and they made their way to the bench in the hospital's compound

"so tell me who is then the love of your life?" she asked him

"Nah, I've never really had time for stuff like that, I just want to focus on other things, even though there is one girl that I like, and I think I love her, but do you know the funny thing? I don't even know her name," he said as his mind drifted to Cassie; he wondered where she was and what she must be doing at the moment.

"Oh that's very normal or you need to do is just ask her," she said

"I wish that was possible, I don't know where she lives or where she is, all my life I have had to look for the people I love, first it's my sister and now it's the woman I love, it's crazy," he said getting a little bit emotional

Mrs Whitney felt the need to hold and hug him, he must be going through a lot already, it's a lot to take in for him

"what's the girl's name?" she asked

"my sister or the girl?" he asked

"well they are both girls right so what's their name?" she asked

"I don't know, I never got to ask the girl her name; she didn't tell me and my sister, she was very little when I lost her, I don't remember the name my mom used to call her cause I was just four years old back then" he said.

"What do you mean by you lost her?" Mrs Whitney asked a little bit curious

"my dad was murdered that night and my mom was being chased as well, she carried my sister in her hands and she pulled me along and she put us under a truck so we could be safe, then I heard a gunshot, I remember it so well and I remember my sister crying so loud that I had to cover her mouth so those bad guys don't hear us" he started to explain and he was already crying this time.

"Then I met her under the truck to go look for my mom cause she was supposed to have been back by then, but she wasn't but then I didn't find her, I lost my way and when I later found the truck, my sister was no longer there" he finally said and this time he could no longer control the tears, he just allow all the pain that he has bottled up for so long poured out.