The Love That Passed

Third Person’s POV

Jared was looking outside the window when he heard the knock. He knew that it was Colleen because he saw her getting in the mansion. She doesn’t go into his room and stays in her own room all the time and Jared knew that the reason she was there was because his mom was there. Even after two years, Claire and Ingrid didn’t know that they were sleeping in a separate room. “Come in.” he said without looking and Colleen entered the room.

“Mommy Claire is down stairs, why don’t you send her home first?” she said not looking at him either. She didn’t want to look at him when they were talking because Jared didn’t like it as well.

Jared approached her and asked, “Who is he?” Colleen was confused so she looked at him accidentally and she saw him glaring at her so she looked away.

“I don’t know who you were talking about.” she replied and went to the couch so she could sit.

“The man you were talking to earlier, who is he?”

“Dr. Gerard.” she replied and Jared was angry that she didn’t want to say anything to him besides that.

“Do I need to hire a private investigator to get to know him?” he asked and Colleen looked at him.

“Why would you do that when he has nothing to do with you?” she asked.

“And does he has anything to do with you?” Jared asked in return.

“He’s my friend.” Colleen answered even though she couldn’t understand why he had to know who Dr. Gerard was. “You can go to mommy Claire and I am going to stay here for a while, I will be going back to my room when you leave to send her home.” she said to change the topic. She didn’t want to talk about Dr. Gerard in fear that she would burst her anger now that she remembered how he refused to help her for the surgery about two years ago.

“You’re dismissing me so you don’t need to answer my question?” Jared asked.

“You never asked me about anything before, you never talked to me so I don’t see a reason why you were suddenly interested in my affairs.”

“So you admitted that you had an affair with that doctor?” Jared asked angrily and pulled her to get up from the couch she was sitting on.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

“What are you doing? It hurts.” Colleen complained but Jared didn’t listen to her.

“Are you telling me that you had an affair with that doctor?” he asked again.

“What I meant by affair is in general. Everything that happened to me, you never interested before, why would you ask me now?”

“Is it wrong to ask my wife why she was with another man?”

“Who is your wife?” Colleen asked which stunned Jared. He doesn’t know why he acted that way, all he knew was he didnt like seeing Colleen with Dr. Gerard. He had a feeling that he liked Colleen, which was true after all.

“Even if it was just on paper, you are still not allowed to see any man. You have to remember that, and for that to happen,” he said and pulled Colleen at the back of her head and kissed her. It wasn’t tender and was meant to punish her. She was pushing him away but Jared was big and she was small and weak and had no strength to protest so she just let him. “I don’t want to see you with that doctor again.” Jared said after the kiss and got out of his room.

Colleen was nailed where she was standing and couldn’t believe that Jared had kissed her. They never got intimate in their two years of marriage and even if she was preparing everything he needed for office, they never saw each other most of the time. When they do, she would avoid him and go the other way where she knew Jared will never go.

She couldn’t understand why he had to do that when she told him that Dr. Gerard was just her friend. ‘Is he thinking that I was cheating on him?’ she thought and she felt furious thinking he had the nerve to think that way when she wasn’t doing anything wrong. She went to the window where Jared was standing when she came in and saw him and Claire getting in the car to send Claire home.

Colleen got out of Jared’s room and went to her own room as Betty followed her. “Colleen, are you alright? Did you two fight?” she asked, worriedly and Colleen shook her head. “Then why are you looking like that?” Betty asked again.

“Like what? What do I look like?”

“You look like you have been caught in something.”

“There’s nothing like that. I came to see Jared in his room and you know that I am not used to talking to him. Maybe that’s why I feel flustered.” Colleen replied.

“OK, do you want to eat? I made a snack.”

“No, I wanted to rest. My doctor said that I needed that now.” she replied and went to her bed. She wanted to rest first because she felt her heart beating differently. She was afraid that she would find herself having difficulty in her breathing. She didn’t want that to happen because she wanted to have all her laboratories normal so she could have her surgery.

“You rest then. but once you feel hungry, you have to come and see me, all right?” he said and Colleen nodded in agreement. Betty got out of her room so she could rest.

Colleen lay down on her bed and started to think about the kiss that she and Jared shared just a moment ago. She still couldn’t believe that it happened. She thought that he was still seeing Stacey so he won’t have any reason to do that. It’s not as though he was deprived.

Jared was her first kiss and she couldn’t help but touch her lips. She imagined it to be really sweet when she did that with her boyfriend. Now that she had tasted it with Jared, she confirmed it to be true even if it was for Jared to punish her. After two years of marriage, they had their first kiss.

What would happen to her now that Jared had done something he shouldn’t and think about it. Colleen closed her eyes and didn’t realize that she fell asleep with a smile on her face. Deep down inside her, she was hoping that this will be a start of their good relationship and work things out. It may not be too late for them to have a new beginning.