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.

you want me to

the world would

approached me in the middle of an isle in a store because she noticed that I was losing

just a

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I force myself to smile. I was grateful for her concern,

be left

my hand. “Things will get better.

one final look before leaving. I heave a sigh of relief before going back to looking

the annoying mocking voice cause me

any mood to deal with

always it seems

put your in place when you tried

secretary sneers.

my hands in fists. She was baiting me

had managed to leak the story and the

about the previous attempts on

had leaked the story after he had buried

has never liked me. She would always take any chance she got to put me down

never believed me when I told him she was a bitch to

claiming that I’m the one that probably provoked

when I know you know

me” I tell

achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t

you tried stealing her man, after

because you’re a slut”

eyes down her body then back up. She

a few rounds with

still tell me the same

hearing the same shit over

because I

back and getting on Rowan’s bad side.

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and gives me an evil smile. “How does

with your sister right

him. I’m slowly starting to kill the love I have for him. It also helps that Ethan distracts me from thoughts

him but he never reciprocated. Sure, he didn’t love me but I was his wife while you were nothing but a mere secretary one he had no interest in. So, I pose the 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

ugly bitch!” she snarls before lunging

to side step her in time and she trips on her

up quickly she comes at me. I don’t think when I

throw it at her.

staring in shock. With

like a banshee. I take whatever I can get

throw

attract a small crowd and one or two of them had their phones

me, someone grabs her by the

in the opposite direction.

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