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.

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

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

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desires, by what I thought I

was a lie. All I can ever remember is being told he was to be my husband. I never thought

win, to have everything I was groomed to believe was mine. I saw Winona as the obstacle in my path, and I didn't care what I had

hurt people-people who

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

and accept the pain 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 my time

how to be without. But if he'd died that day, by my hand, what would I do then? I'd still

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

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barely any chance to do anything

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

it past her to have me killed if

happened. I was in the chapel and something profoundly life changing happened. And I

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

her a lot. No matter how much I tried to break

am. I can't hide behind my wealth, my family

up for it, or if Wihona will ever forgive me. She shouldn't. I'm not deserving of forgiveness. But it's not forgiveness 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