Divorce to Destiny: Reclaiming My CEO Husband by Anney GW

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166 Higher Power

(Ashlyn)

I sit on the edge of my narrow bed, the cold, sterile walls of the small, with nothing more than a bed, a table, and a chair. facility pressing in on me. The room is

It's a far cry from the luxury I was used to, but it's fitting. I don't deserve anything better. Not after everything I've done.

The silence here is deafening in its way, but it gives me time to think, to reflect on everything that's led me to this point.

I've spent countless hours replaying the past in my mind, dissecting every action, every decision, every

hurtful word.

I've talked to my psychiatrist and, more importantly, listened.

And I've come to realize just how wrong I was. How wrong Judy is.

About everything.

just the talks and the thinking, there's a higher power at play here. Now I know there's something out there bigger than all of us,

guilt that tightens in my chest, a heavy weight that I know I'll carry for the rest

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desires, by what I thought I was entitled to, that I didn't care

it was love for Jayden, for our future, but that was a lie. All I can ever remember is being told he was to be my husband. I never thought any different. I let myself believe

mine. I saw Winona as the obstacle in my path, and I didn't care what I had to do

manipulated, I lied, I hurt people-people who never deserved

been so kind to me when I was a lonely teenager. I hated her making me actually grow to like her. Judy said it was all a ploy. Winona never really liked me, she felt sorry for me,

may be in here for

understood how to be without. But if he'd died that day, by my hand, what would I do then? I'd still have to survive. I'd have to learn to live without him or take

since I stepped through these doors in my shackles. To end it all.

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chance to do anything

a phone to send her messages and read hers. She's

wouldn't put it past her to have me killed if I go against her. I want

life changing happened. And I knew.

is a better way. I see that now. I've been awakened to something in life that's

think about her a lot. No matter how much I tried to break her, she kept fighting, kept standing up for herself, for Jayden,

hide behind my wealth, my family name, or my looks. None of that means anything

I'm looking for. I want to change. I spend a lot of time thinking about redemption, about what it means to truly atone for your sins. I've never been