Macy – thanks for your quick review of chapter 1! Hope you enjoy chapter 2!
I can't promise updates as quickly as this one but I will do my best to post a chapter every day or two at least.
Chapter 2
Klaus smiled at the lightness of her tone. "Why do you ask that sweetheart?"
"I was just getting ready to text you when your call came through."
"Why were you going to text me Caroline? You made it quite clear that you wanted nothing to do with me."
As much as he tried to keep his tone light, Caroline could hear the pain in those words. "Haven't you ever heard that it's a woman's prerogative to change her mind?"
Despite Klaus' cynical nature, he couldn't help but smile again as he pictured the twinkle that would be in her eyes as she teased him. "I have. It doesn't typically work out in my favor when that happens however."
"Well maybe today is your lucky day, Niklaus."
"Perhaps it is. You still have not told me why you were going to text me."
"I was going to ask if you would consider meeting me to talk." Caroline held her breath as she waited for his reaction.
"Meet with you? To talk, you say? Talk about what, love? What could we possibly have to talk about now?" His curiosity was piqued as was his uncertainty. She had deflected every advance, every sincere compliment and offer he had extended to her and all of a sudden she was reaching out to him? It smelled of Salvatore plot and he wasn't sure if he was annoyed by that or deeply hurt that she would play along.
"You have no reason to believe me after everything that has happened between us. But I wanted to talk to you about us."
"But dear Caroline, you have insisted for months now that there is no 'us' and never could be. Last I recall you were madly in love with a certain hybrid formerly in my employ."
"We broke up Klaus. And it was because of you." Caroline knew he could hear her perfectly well though her voice was but a whisper at this point.
"Because of me? Love, I haven't even been here in weeks. How could it possibly be because of me?" Klaus wanted to believe what she said but his years of experience in dealing with manipulation wouldn't allow him to let go of this jaded line of questioning quite yet.
"Meet with me tomorrow and I will explain. All of it, I promise."
"Where and when?" Klaus knew if he could lock eyes with her he could compel her to tell him the truth. But he didn't want to do that, didn't want to strip her of her free will unless he was sure this was a ruse.
"Your house, 10am?" Caroline hoped offering to meet him on his turf would begin to show him she was sincere and not part of some plot against him.
"10am it is." Klaus smiled into the phone as they said goodnight. In a few short hours he would know what his sweet Caroline was up to.