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

Winona and Jayden, there's a knot of guilt that tightens in my chest, a heavy

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own desires, by what I thought I was entitled to, that

ever remember is being told he was to be

was selfish, I wanted to win, to have everything I was groomed to believe was mine. I saw Winona as the obstacle in my path, and

hurt people-people

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

I've caused. I may be in here for many years. Even if I get out of the mental health facility, I'll have to do

Jayden. The man I've never understood how to be without. But if he'd died that day, by my hand, what

where I thought I'd end up. That's what I wanted since I stepped through these doors in my shackles. To end it all. I didn't care how. Starve myself or something faster if I could 166

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chance to do anything in

I have a phone to send her messages and read hers. She's still on

past her to have me killed if I go

I was in the chapel and something profoundly life changing happened. And I knew. I knew I had to live

been awakened to something in life that's bigger

about her a lot. No matter how much I tried to break her, she kept

the first time in my life, I'm forced to confront who I really am. I can't hide behind my wealth, my family name, or my looks. None of that means anything here.

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 religious, never cared much for the idea of a higher power or divine judgment. But in this place, surrounded