After finding Harry and Niall engrossed in work in Niall's office I decided to go back in my hotel room. When I entered my room I saw Natasha sprawled out on the couch and watching TV. When she saw me she rolled her eyes, well the feeling is mutual.

"Don't you have your own room to watch TV and all" I asked irately.

She switched off the TV and looked towards me and said in bored tone. "I was waiting for Harry, we had a ritual to go for shopping whenever we visit Italy."

I was looking dumbfounded towards her, she rolled her eyes when she saw me and smirked "And I bet you did not know about that. Do you even know anything about our relationship or not?"

"What do you mean by our  relationship, I know Harry and you are friends. What else is there to know?"

To this she laughed "How naïve of you. So you don't know Harry and I dated pretty seriously."

I choked on my saliva "What!" I exclaimed.

She frowned and looked seriously towards me. "Yes Harry and I dated in our late teens, we were both serious. We were the golden couple in our high school. Then I left for fashion school and got busy in modelling assignments. But still we dated. When I turned 21 he asked me to be his fiancée, he was so sweet and understanding that he told me he will wait as many years as I want to get married. But I was more focused on my modeling and did not want to settle. As the time went, misunderstanding were created between us, I was getting smothered by him and his constant nit picking. Our fights got usual scenarios and with time and lack of enthusiasm in our relationship we drift apart and decided to break up. Harry got busy in his business and started fooling around with random girls but he never had a serious relationship till you came into picture." She looked towards me with tears in her eyes.

"And you are jealous of me because he loves me and is committed to me and if I am not wrong you still have feelings for him" I asked.

"Yes, and I would have rekindled Harry's feeling for me if you would not have been in the picture" she said in frustration.

"I was not in picture for four years but still you did not take necessity steps" I pointed out.

She replied in anguish "Because the situation was never this severe, he was just using girls for his libido and I was okay with that."

"Because you were at the top of your career and yet safe with his feelings" I retorted back.

"Whatever, but he loved me, and i still love him. You don't deserve him" She retaliated

"And you do?" I asked. To which she did not replied and started telling me about her time with Harry.

All this information was hard to digest, Harry never told me about his past, and neither did I ask but he told me himself that loves me.I can't question that. Natasha was still rambling about her and Harry's relationship but I zoned her out and thought about all the time I spent with Harry and I am pretty sure that his feelings are honest in this relationship. Natasha's voice brings me out of my reverie.

.... and the he is damn good in bed too, his sexual appetite is ravenous."

"What?" I asked flabbergasted. She looked towards me for a long time and then she gasped like she understood the puzzle that she was trying to solve. "You guys haven't done the deed. There is no physical relationship between you too."

"What nonsense, of course we are physical....

She rolled her eyes and did not let me complete my rant. "Have you guys had sex? I am pretty sure the answer is no and yet Harry is with you and waiting patiently. You do know what his reputation was, he was a player. He is known for one night stands and he and you aren't sexual. You sure you can keep him? Or satisfy him?" She smirked.

That caused my anger to boil "All relationships are not about sex. There should be deeper understanding" Natasha rolled her eyes and waved her hands dramatically "Yea, yea all that psychology shit. Come on, it's Harry"

Natasha was planting the seeds of doubts in my brain and was getting successful. The monster was eating my thoughts and forcing me to doubt our relationship.

"I need some air" Saying that I left the room leaving behind my phone because I know Harry will call me when he will find me missing but I took wallet with me. I decided to not think about all this without talking with Harry first and decided to shop for my friends and get them something as a souvenir from Italy. After hours of shopping I decided to head back to hotel with a clear and relaxed mind and a determination to have a long talk about this with Harry. 

When I entered the suite in the hotel, I was engulfed in a warm embrace. The fragrance of Harry's cologne soothe my nerves. "Where have you been? I was getting worried sick. Don't ever do that again. I returned and asked Natasha about your whereabouts and she said she don't know. "

I pulled apart from him and smiled and showed him the shopping bags that I was carrying. He sighed "You could have taken your phone or could have informed me."

I looked around and saw Niall standing studying me and Natasha was no where to be seen. "Where is your ex girlfriend?" I asked sarcastically. Niall sucked in a sharp breath and Harry gasped. All the color left his face and he avoided making direct contact with me.

"How do you know?" He asked.

I shrugged my shoulders because I was not in a mood to talk. Niall looked sheepishly towards me and gave me a painful smile and said "I will you guys alone."

Once Niall left Harry sighed and took all the shopping bags from hands and placed them on the table. He nudged me gently towards the couch and made me sit. He sighed once again and roughly played with his hair in frustration.

"I can explain"

"Everyone has got their past with their exes, the thing that bothered me is you knew that I am not comfortable in Natasha's company, she is scornful towards me, we both don't like each other. Earlier I used to think she has got problem with everyone because most of your friends don't like her but she was more bitter towards me than other I always used to think for a reason but now I have got one. You were in a serious relationship with her, Harry you proposed her and now you are with me. Of course she will be bitter with me." He looked suddenly surprised towards me and muttered a curse. "You know what pains me is that I get to know about this from her and not from you. Did you not trust me Harry?"

He faced me and cupped my face with his palms. "Never doubt on yourself Althea. You are the best thing that has happened to me. I used to think that what I felt for Natasha was love but no, I was wrong, the thing that I feel with you is love or more than love, if you ask me I was just infatuated towards her or maybe they were raging teenage hormones. And in the innocence of teen age years I thought that she was the one for me but now I am not even attracted towards her. She is not the girl I want to spend my life with and she never will be. I don't have any feelings for her."

I pulled my face from his grasp and sighed "But she still has feelings for you. She is jealous that you are so committed to this relationship. She is jealous of us. She admitted herself that she always wanted to rekindle the lost love and she would have succeeded if I had not come into the picture."

"Let her think whatever she is thinking, I love you. And you are the one for me, trust me please. I can't think of living without you even for a second." Harry captured my lips in a mind numbing possessive kiss. I forgot about the doubts that were creeping in my mind. He deepen the kiss and pulled me close towards him. I moaned and Harry bit my lip in a possessive way. When we pulled apart we were both panting. But then again the other doubt crept in my mind.

"Harry, she said that you have ravenous sexual appetite" I said meekly to which Harry chuckled. "I won't lie to you I used to have."

I avoided looking towards him but he cupped my chin and made me look towards him. "But since I have met you, I don't feel like that it is a necessary thing for me. I am satisfied in your company and I know you are still not ready for sexual encounter and I respect that and will not force you to make that decision. You are 26 and still virgin, how can your boyfriends have controlled themselves I have no idea. I will be honest with you, sometimes I want to have sex with you but this relationship is more than that and I am ready to wait for it for eternity because I love you and only you. The thing that I had with Natasha can't be compared to this. Because this is more and I would die than loosing you."

I had tears in my eyes after listening to his feelings. "I love you too Harry, I love you too. I would like to take my relationship ahead, I would like to get physical with you and no I am not saying this because of Natasha no, I am saying this because I am prepared but unfortunately my shoulder is still painful, but once I am out of this cast, I am all yours."

Harry smiled with adoration in his eyes and kissed me hard, rough and with a growl of possession.

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