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.

okay…Do you want me to

was like this woman, then the world would be a better

she approached me in the middle of an isle in a store because she

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at me skeptically. I force myself to smile. I was grateful for her concern, but I

be left

squeezes my hand. “Things will get better. Always have

heave a sigh of relief before going back to

look like hell” the annoying mocking voice

wasn’t in any

try to ignore her, but like always it seems like

in place when you tried stealing her

secretary sneers.

me and I knew it. Everyone

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

it. They had also managed to find out about the previous

leaked the story

me. She would always take any chance she got to put me down and

Of course Rowan never believed me when I told him

that I’m the one that probably provoked her

trying to achieve when I know you

me” I tell

to achieve anything just stating facts.

dead was a woman you tried stealing her man, after all, that’s what you are

men because you’re a

run my eyes down her body then back up. She looked elegant and impeccable like

gone a few rounds

these years and you still tell me the same

shit over and over again”

looks at me shocked, Probably because I talked back.

Rowan’s bad side. This time though, I

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gives me an evil smile. “How does it

that he’s with

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

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 you woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even though he

bitch!” she snarls before

to side step her in time and she trips on her extremely

she comes at me. I don’t think when I

throw it at her.

Both of us staring in

comes at me. Seething and screaming like a banshee. I take

on and throw it at

or two of them had their phones out. It was a damn

slap me, someone grabs her

in the opposite direction.

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