Free Forgetting Him by Anna Belle

him.
                  "A small pool in his penthouse."
                  "Marie ..." He shook his head in disbelief.
                  "I know now that it was wrong but ..." Her shoulders sunk.
                  "That's why you jumped when I came in, because you expected him to come in."
                  "I hope I don't see him today."
                  "You know that Nathan didn't even come in today? He didn't even let me know." O'Conner looked worried. "Who knows what happened to him. God, I hope he didn't hurt himself or get sick from that cold water." He got up from his chair.
                  "Nathan didn't come in today?" She looked worriedly at her father.
                  O'Conner moved towards the window and leaned on it.
                  "You should go and check up on him and apologize." He ordered her. This was the first time that he did that but, right now, he didn't have a choice.
                  "I can't." She shook her head.
                  "What do you mean you can't?" He asked, a bit furious at the fact that she would even answer back to him.
                  "It's like you don't even understand that our future and this companies futures rest on him! It's like you don't understand that from his report and his view of our company ..."
                  "Alright! I'll go." She cut him off.
                  "I really don't know what's gotten into you lately, but every single time you are with that man you do something stupid and rash." He looked worriedly at her.
                  "He brings it out of me ..." She shook her head. "I don't know, he's the only one that can get me that upset."
                  "I know why, and you know why too." He crossed his arms on his chest.
                  "No, it's not why you think it is. Whatever happened then is in the past."
                  "Do you even feel anything towards him?" He asked her, hoping that she could work out her feelings towards the man, regardless if she would answer him or not.
                  "I don't know. I feel bad for what I did to him and I can't think about anything else at the moment."
                  "Do you know when a person is sure that they don't feel anything towards another person?" Since she just looked at him, he continued to explain it to her. "When that which is happening to the other person doesn't make any sort of impact in their life." He added, hopeful that she would understand what he was trying to get across. "And it seems to me that you're very shaken up about what you did to Nathan."
                  "Of course I'm shaken up about it, but that doesn't mean ..."
                  "I don't want to argue with you." He interrupted her, turned around and headed towards the door. "When you come back from Nathan's, please, tell me how he's doing." He added and closed the door behind him.
                  Marie sat in her office, alone and confused.
     

Chapter 18
     
     
                  Bruce tried to work, but he just couldn't focus. All he could think about was seeing Marie with that expensive wine, bought by a man that he didn't even know.
                  When they were back in his apartment, he heard as she called someone. Curiosity got the best of him and he slowed down to hear who she was calling. He stopped completely and listened in when he heard that she had called the restaurant they came back from. She asked for the name of the man that bought the expensive wine for her table. He heard as she whispered, "Nathan".
                  After that, he turned around and left his apartment. He knew who Nathan was, the entire company talked about him. He discovered recently that Nathan was the one sent in from New York to examine the company and he was