Xavier's pov:

Counting seconds and minutes was all I had been doing since last half an hour. Sometime before, Dan called me to inform that Maya has set out to meet me in fury. She created a sort of scene at home and I was pretty sure that this was going to happen here too. Keeping in mind to not become an entertainment for anyone, I sent Mrs. Molly who works as a caretaker and cook at my Penthouse and Joseph who works as my driver out of the place. Generally, Parker is the one who is always with me. But, this time I couldn't leave Maya alone. I strictly instructed him to be with Maya, always.

Suddenly, I heard a loud banging on the door. It was an indication of the terrible storm coming towards me. Before I could open the door, I saw the lock rotating, indicating that Parker must have given her the spare key. The door swung open revealing my extremely furious wife with the papers in her hand.

She stood at a notable distance from me. Her hostile glare and face contorted with rage made me sigh in defeat.

"Parker! Out!" He silently went outside.

I sat on the couch waiting for her to start. I knew it was going to be a long fight. I looked at her in the eyes. As soon as my eyes met hers, I saw a sudden change of emotions in a swift manner. So quick, that I wasn't able to identify the earlier look.

She hurriedly took out the papers from the envelopes and they immediately hit my face. She threw them with so much force that I'm pretty sure it would have caused some rashes.

"I think you should sit and talk. No need to be violent." I clenched my fist trying to keep my calm.

"Don't tell me what to do." Irritation surged up inside her.

She took deep breaths trying to calm her thumping nerves.

"Why are you so eager to divorce me?" She asked. Her tone had lowered down to the normal but, her voice still dripping venom.

I kept quite, not having words to reply her.

"WHY?" She shouted at the topmost of her voice.

I flinched at her tone and replied, "I'm not."

"Then, why the fuck are these made? One thing I know for sure that these are not for making paper boats."

"You were not happy with me. So, I'm realising you from this bond."

"I was happy with you. I was the happiest with you. But, not when you decide to keep on whoring around. You know what, I think you did a great job . We should get ahead with this divorce. Just that, I want to change one thing.

On these papers, it's written that the reason for divorce is compatibility issues. Change that . Correct it with INFEDILITY and CHEATING."

"What made you say that? You know that I did it once and I regret that. I apologized to you for that."

"Oh yeah. You did apologize. But, you also said that you won't ever even think about doing that again."

"And, you know that I'm true to my words." I clarified myself.

"Fuck your words you cheater. But, if by being true to your words mean that you can shove your tongue into someone's mouth and act like nothing happened, then for sure you were true to your words." She laughed bitterly.

"Watch your mouth Maya. I didn't do any such thing. What rubbish are you speaking?"

"I'm speaking rubbish. Oh yeah!" Her bitter laugh grew louder and tears started to make their way to her cheeks.

"I think there's some big misunderstanding. Please talk to me Maya. We need to clear it. I'm speaking the truth Maya. I didn't cheat on you."

"Don't you fucking dare to act all innocent. I myself saw you kissing her."

That was a big shock to me. When did she see me? With whom she saw me?

"Maya please be clear. I'm not getting a single thing. I'm honestly innocent in this case."

"Oh yeah! You are really innocent. All the time you were innocent. But, not when I myself saw you kissing Caroline."

"When?"

"When I came to your office. When I went downstairs to say bye to Chris, I came back to see my Oh So Innocent husband having a girl on his lap and kissing her hungrily."

Maya's pov:

He was quite for a minute or two before sighing in relief.

"What happened Mr. Adams? Cat caught your tongue. No words to prove yourself innocent now."

"Oh Maya! Only if you would have stood there another second, you would have seen the reality. It wasn't as it seemed." He said.

"What story you have now?"

"I don't have a story. It's the reality. I agree that you are speaking the truth. But, that's only the half of it. You didn't see me kissing her. It seemed like that. She kissed me and that too in a moment so fast that I couldn't react. But, as soon as I was able to, I pushed her away. She started to throw herself at me but, I didn't accept her advances. I promise that this isn't what you're thinking. I didn't cheat on you. I was and always will be loyal to you.

Oh God Maya! We were fighting for such a thing that didn't even happen. I was anyhow going to tell you about the incident but, you directly went home that day. No worries now. Let's end this thing. I'll talk to Lucas to take back the divorce petition. We have cleared our misunderstandings. I know you trust me."

His face showed a smile of rest and relief. He came forward, took my hand in his and before he could say anything, I yanked his hand away from me.

He was shocked by my reaction. I could see it in his eyes.

"You do trust me , right?" I kept quiet.

"Maya, tell me you believe me." His shaking hands and trembling lips made me fear his reaction a bit.

"You remember me telling you that you have a good way with your words? You really have that. You told this lie in such a good manner, that if I wouldn't have known you and your reality, I would've surely fallen for your story. And, to answer your earlier question, I did trust trust you but, not anymore."

He seemed a bit shaken from my response. It was becoming difficult for me to see him like this and not react to his helplessness.

"Maya don't do this to me. I beg you please trust me." His voice lowered and sounds of his sniffling were a thorn to my ears.

Before I could melt to this drama, I should leave. It is really not possible for me to see him like this, even if it's not real.

"Make sure to make the changes I told you about in the divorce papers and please, neither do I want any alimony nor your mansion. Make sure to remove that."

I started to walk away from there but, I suddenly felt a tug to my wrist.

"Pl... Please.. don't...le... leave me." I turned around to see him on his knees, crying his heart out to me.

Although my heart kept on telling me that he must be worth listening but, my mind refused to stay there anymore. Keeping stone on my already hurt heart, I jerked my hand off his hold and left from there.

Author's pov:

In this heartache the sun didn't shine, birdsong passed as if the melody couldn't glide through the air as it once did before. But the truth is, one rather forgot comfort than keep a lover who doesn't love. So instead of grieving, Xavier let this heartache be his teacher and the reason to keep seeking one who can hear the playful calling of their own soul. Because when this relationship broke up, either he would've turned to ashes or his memories would've , because he have to have no self respect at all to stay with one who can't see that how wonderful he is.

It had been a week Xavier had seen Maya. Last time they met, they seperated from each other emotionally. It will be this last time they'll ever meet at the end of this month for legal procedures of the court and they'll seperate legally and completely.

The last week brought terrible storms for both Xavier and Maya.

Not able to handle his first love giving him his first heartbreak, Xavier decided to leave everything that reminded him of Maya. He decided to leave New York and shift to France. He also made all the arrangements to handle the work from there. For this thing, there happened a huge argument between Lucas and him.

But, he convinced Lucas to accept his decision saying that, "There's this place in me where her fingerprints still rest, her kisses still linger, her wisphers softly echo and her essence still surrounds. I don't want to stay at a place where I'll have to fight back the urge to text her or call her. I want to keep myself so busy with things that I have no time to think about us. I don't want to forget her but I want to convince myself that she was a good thing that happened to me but it wasn't supposed to be forever. And, it isn't like I'll forever settle down there, once I'm ready to face her memories back, I'll return. I promise."

Even though Lucas and Dan were still unsure of his decision and sacred to leave him alone at this point of his life, they agreed and supported him in whatever that helps him sleep at night. They respected his decision and his choice to be alone for sometime.

Even though Maya thought that she'll be happy that she is going to get separated from a loveless marriage, she wasn't. The whole week she had been grieving for the fact that she didn't get to see or hear from him even for a second. She missed Xavier badly. She knew her feelings but, refused to accept them. All though, no one blamed her for anything, their change of tone or in other words, their lack of words to communicate with her, were the proof of the resentment towards her. Already half broken because of Xavier, the change of the behaviour of her loved ones towards her, broke her down completely. She started blaming herself for all the things that happened around her. In her pain, she started dreaming about Xavier. A dream that left her all alone, but never wanting to wake up.

Already the differences between her and Xavier led to their separation. On the other hand, Dan and Lucas have been making excuses to not meet her. Not that they had any harsh feelings towards her but, the pain of Xavier was what driving their hearts away from Maya. Anna, she was all good to Maya. The smiley, happy, cheerful face, she kept it all through out the day. But, the pain behind her smile and happiness, it couldn't be hidden any longer from Maya. Bringing up Xavier and Dan as her own child, she felt his pain and not seeing her child in front of her eyes was the most painful thing for Anna. Daisy, she's no doubt with Maya in every possible situation. But this time, she and Liam, both were busy in a big medical conference that was held in Singapore . They both have been really working hard for this conference. Liam who was representing his own hospital and Daisy who has been sent as a representative from her hospital, knew nothing about this whole scenario happening.

In all the situation Maya, technically had no one with her. She was all alone. And Xavier, he had everyone with him but he didn't want them close. He was pushing everyone away from him and drowning into work, that was no doubt affecting his health, physically and emotional. Both the hearts crust badly under the weight of misunderstandings, needed to be lifted up as soon as possible.

Xavier's pov:

"How could you do this to her? You know that Daisy is not in town, even Liam is not here and Anna, she is also not well. Maya is all alone in the mansion. I don't want her to get stressed mentally and I don't want to bring back the old days. Please listen to me and go to her. Talk to her. She is all alone." I requested Liam on the call.

"You are right Xav. But, you need to understand that I am really busy in an important meeting right now. Even Dan is busy in the preparations of her upcoming event. Okay sorry bro. But, I gotta go. Bye." As usual, without listening to me anymore, he hung up.

I was really tired of explaining Dan and Lucas to not hold any grudges regarding Maya. She was all innocent in this matter. Just certain misunderstandings that refused to be cleared between us, were the issue. But I guess, destiny planned this is for us. So we had to face it anyhow. Right now, my main concern was Maya. Parker who was staying at the mansion, was continuously informing me about Maya's well being. She started to go back to her old self, where she used to be quite all the time, stay in her room mostly and in simple words, she started to feel all alone. I had been trying very hard to convince Dan and Lucas to go and spend some time with her so that she doesn't feel like everyone is avoiding her. But, their stubborn asses refuse to listen to me.

A knock on my cabin brought me back to the day. Chris entered with some files in his hand.

"Sir, these are the monthly reports of the statement of all the companies. I have checked everything thoroughly. All the companies in Asia and Africa are on track. Their growth is also consistent. So, no issues regarding that.

The American, they are also all good. Just the issues are with the ones in Europe. They seem to lack the growth percentage that we set up for this month. Especially the Spain and the France ones. Well, everyone agrees that the blunder caused in the France will take a bit more time to be back on track . Bit, it's improving gradually. The thing regarding Spain, that's to worry about a bit. No problem in supply of resources , no restrictions for funds, no problems regarding the communication and materials, still the factories and development plants failed to reach the monthly growth. " Chris explained me the monthly report of all my companies in every continent and country after he went through a check on all of them. I, trusting him with his work, never find a need to recheck the document that was overlooked by him.

"Okay, set up my meeting with the regional head of Spain and the managers for the factories and development plans for tomorrow and make sure everyone is present at the meeting and no excuses shall be accepted."

"Okay Sir. Anything else?" He asked.

I checked my watch. It was 3:30 p.m. It was still one and a half hour left for the office hours to get completed. But, seeing that he has completed all his work and also done with making my schedule for tomorrow, I decided to let him go home.

"No , there's nothing. You can go. I'll also leave after wrapping up this document."

"Okay sir." He replied and was about to walk away when something caught my mind.

"Wait Chris!" I stopped him.

"Yes sir."

"Do you have any plans for the evening?" I asked him because I didn't want him to be bounded by my work even after office hours.

"No sir. I don't have any plans for now. Umm....Why do you ask?" He sounded confused.

"Look, I know you are aware of the problems between me and Maya. So, I won't hide anything or make excuses. Lucas and Dan, they are quite busy with their work. Even Anna is not well and her friends are also not in the city. So, she is all alone at the mansion. So, I was kind of thinking, if you are free and you have no problem with that, can you please visit Maya and spend some time with her?"

"Sure sir. Why not? Don't worry. I'll go and visit her." He replied with a smile.

"Thanks a lot Chris. This really means a lot to me."

"No worries sir. It's a pleasure for me if I can help you in any way. And anyways it's not such a big deal. Maya is a friend. So, I can do this for her." He smiled and walked away from the cabin.

Before I could resume back my work, Chris returned again and smiled.

"Sir, I just wanted to tell you that you are really an inspiration for me. I hope that someday, I will come like you. Both on professional and personal front. Professionally you teach me a lot but personally you give me a lot. It's really an honour for me to work for a person like you who knows and respects the value of family more than anything. I will try to become like you. Thank you for teaching the most valuable lessons of life." With that Chris left my cabin in hurry without giving me a chance to reply him.

I smiled and not wanting to go back to the day dreaming mode again, I resumed back my work and focused on the documents in front of me.