1. A kiss

Ava.

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I am still recovering from my attack. I am mentally and physically battered and I just want all this

to be over. Three times someone has tried to kill me. Three times I managed to survive. I just don’t

know when my luck will run out because at this point whoever wants me dead seems hell–bent on

making sure I don’t see Noah again.

I shiver when I remember how close to meeting my maker I had been. He had been right there in

my house. He’d planned to rape me there before killing me. Tears fill my eyes and it takes

everything in me not to let them fall.

I’ve cried enough this past few days. I was tired of it, but I just didn’t understand why. Why would

anyone want me dead? I haven’t wronged anyone, well except for Emma. Even with her, she was

now with Rowan so that should have absolved me of my sins. I didn’t deserve what was happening

to me.

My greatest fear was that they succeed. It would mean that I don’t get to see my boy growing up.

That I would miss all the milestones in his life and it saddened me. The thought of that potential

future broke my heart into a million different pieces.

“Are you okay miss?” someone asks me.

I look up to find an elderly woman staring at me with concern. Her kind eyes assessing my face. It

was still a bit bruised but at least the swelling had gone down. Now I just had the healing lip,

black eye and purple cheek.

“I’m okay, thank you” I try to smile, but I just don’t feel like it.

I’ve been in a kind of funk since my attack happened. I’m just going through the motions. Nothing

feels real, it all just feels like a bad dream. I was still waiting for myself to wake up. Deep down I

know that this is real, but a part of me thinks if just pretend then it will all go away.

don’t look okay…Do you want me to call

this woman, then the world

the middle of an isle in a store because she noticed

is no need. I’m okay, just

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at me skeptically. I force myself to smile.

be

closer and squeezes my hand. “Things will get better.

I heave a sigh of relief

annoying

I wasn’t in any mood to deal with

like always it seems like she wants

in place when you tried

secretary sneers.

in fists. She was baiting me and

to me. Someone had managed to leak the story and the media had been running

also managed to find out about the previous attempts on my life.

find out who had leaked the

any chance she got to put me down and

me when I told

her side, claiming that I’m the

what you’re trying to achieve when I know you know full well

me” I tell her

not trying to achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t be surprised if

stealing her man, after all, that’s what you are

because you’re a slut”

body then back up. She looked elegant and

a few rounds with a MMA

years and you still tell me the same things, don’t you ever come up with

the same shit over and over again”

I talked back. It’s something I’ve never

getting on Rowan’s bad side. This time though, I had

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me an evil smile. “How does it feel to lose Rowan? Does

that he’s with your sister right

hurts, sometimes, but I’m slowly starting to let go of him. I’m slowly starting to kill the love I have for him. It also helps that Ethan distracts me from thoughts of my

same question back, how does it feel to know you will never be his woman? That he will never see you as anything other than his secretary. How does it feel to know that he doesn’t consider

bitch!” she snarls before lunging

step her in time and she

quickly she comes at me. I don’t think when I take the carton of milk

throw it at her.

of us staring in shock. With what I can

cry, she comes at me. Seething and screaming like a banshee. I take whatever I

and throw it at

them had their phones out.

me, someone grabs her by the

in the opposite direction.

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