Chapter 6
Vincent picked her up carefully – she felt smaller, more fragile than he remembered – and laid her down on the couch.
He would have to wait until she woke up, with him around – being a beast and a doctor – she was safer as if he called the ambulance.
A fresh bottle of water rested on the coffee table, ready if she needed it, and he sat down, focussing on her heartbeat.
The moment the clouds in her mind started to disappear, Catherine shot up into a sitting position:
„Vincent? What... what happened to me?" He hadn´t expect her to wake up with such power and she quickly leaned back when she realised how close he sat next to her, being clearly uncomfortable.
His joking mood was long gone and he observed her closely, worry in his eyes.
„When was the last time you ate something? You look pale and you´ve lost weight!" he analysed.
„Well, thank you for that compliment..."
„Catherine, I mean it!"
„I... had a salad, ...for lunch,... yesterday..." she hesitated.
„You know, I don´t have time to eat, and appetite neither." she answerd his scolding look with annoyance.
His phone interrupted the conversation that didn´t quite go as planned anyway.
„Phone..." he excused himself and stood up.
„Yes,... sure, … I´ll ask him if we can..., yes... ok, me too..."
He turned back, looking uncofortable in his skin.
„Uugh, the wedding! Never knew one could possibly spend so much time planning a single day..."
and for the first time since he had showed up she took a closer look at him – suddenly he looked as if he hadn´t slept in days.
„Wedding angst? Didn´t know that about you..." she joked.
„But I guess things have changed, we have changed and this is none of my business anymore.
It feels good to know that both of us have successfully moved on, you know?
She kept talking but he didn´t really listen, for a minute he tried to imagine how Catherine would react in that situation and secretly he knew that with her, things would have been simple. Not ´average-boring-simple´ but beautiful. That´s who she was and that would have shown in the style of their wedding as well, if only –
„Vincent, do you even listen? I have to go, Tess is probably waiting already."
„Sure. Oh, and Catherine? – take care!" he added before he left her apartment through the front door.
Those last words moved her more than she expected. ´Take care...´ she leaned against the door and all the emotions came crashing back again.
„Oh, Vincent, I love you so much!" she couldn´t help it, he was still a part of her.
And he heard her, his super senses didn´t betray him.
„Oh Catherine, I love you too."
2 weeks later
Vincent took a week off for a trip to Miami, Erika would have an editorial shooting on the beach and hoped that maybe she would get to spend some quality time with her future husband.
But he himself could only think of Catherine.
He spend time waiting for his fiancé, sunbathing on the beach, all tanned skin and muscles- arousing women´s attention and men´s envy.
´Catherine...´ his thoughts drifted away.
Everything used to be so clear, structured and he knew what he wanted, until now.
The years brought back his memory and slowly he changed. The past defined who he was and when he remembered it, he missed his old self.
For a while he hadn´t paid attention to the people around him but when he felt a pair of eyes resting on him, he looked up:
"Vincent!"
"Catherine?"
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