Can you?

Ch-44

"Why do you treat me so well?" Eleanor blurted out the question which was bugging her from the moment he crashed into her life again.

She imagined different scenarios where she would not be his cup of tea. And she imagined where she was not his fit. There were many beautiful women in this world but this man chose her over the beautiful models, actresses, socialites, and heiresses. And he also treated her well. Why?

Honestly, she couldn't support him as other women do. She was spoiled from the time she was born and became a useless heiress.

But what was there in her that made him like for many years?

"Because you are my love," he said to her, making her unable to avert her gaze.

Those chocolaty eyes… They tell tales to her. They make magic to her body. They change the shades at different times. People may call her a lunatic if she says his eyes were beautiful. But indeed, his eyes were really beautiful. Earlier he said he can see the whole world in her eyes but in truth, she could see her whole world in his eyes.

As she stared into his eyes, she got lost in the pools of his eyes. Does she want to get out of these dark abysses? Nope. If she can, she wants to stay in those pools forever. Those eyes show the love he has for her. They show how much he loves her but… why could she see a layer of loneliness in those eyes.

"Eleanor…" he called out.

"Hmm?" she came out of her thoughts when she heard his words.

"I know you don't love at least not yet. Your confession was something that you did to say you like me.

"Please give me your loyalty and time. I will make you fall for me," he pleaded her desperately.

Oh, Cedric… Oh, My Cedric… My soon-to-be Love… how lonely are you to ask loyalty instead of love to your future wife?

'I want to take all your pain and loneliness. I don't know what you faced. But I want to listen to your worries. I want to know your pains, sufferings, and everything. I will become your supporting shoulder to lean and hide your tears in the depths of my clothes. I want to place my cold lips on your forehead to assure you that you are not alone. You aren't lonely but you have me. Cedric… Can You give me the chance to share your life, worries, struggles, pain, suffering, and everything with me? Can you give me the chance to become your true soulmate? Can you give me the chance to become your perfect wife? Can I enter your life like a part of your heart and soul and listen to every little thing of you?

"Could you give me the chance to be your one and only woman in this life?" she thought. She wanted to say everything out but she felt a lump forming in her throat.

Why was she having these kinds of thoughts towards him? Does she love him?

She wanted to say yes proudly and confidentially but what was stopping her from? Maybe her past.

Yes… her past. Her past with a scum, who was known as Jacob.

She loved him with her whole heart and soul but in the end, all she got was heartbreak. She loved a man with all hers for five years. Even if he doesn't love her, Can Cedric love her and cherish her? Can she give her the security that she wants? She has answers to all her questions.

But why can't she accept them? Maybe it will take time for her?

But a life with Cedric was something she felt good and exciting.

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Author's Notes:

What do you think of Eleanor's situation right now?