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 call

everyone was like this woman, then the world would be a better place. I’m

in the middle of an isle in a store

need. I’m okay, just a

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me skeptically. I force myself to smile. I

be

squeezes my hand. “Things

leaving. I heave a sigh of relief before going back to looking at

look like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause

wasn’t in any mood to

it

your in place when you tried stealing

secretary sneers.

fists. She was baiting me and I knew it. Everyone in

had managed to leak the story and the media had

to find out about

out who had leaked the

She would always take any chance she got to put

Of course Rowan never believed me when I told

side, claiming that I’m the one that probably

achieve when

I

stating facts. I

her man, after all, that’s what

men because you’re a slut”

up. She

I had gone a few rounds with a

still tell me the same things, don’t you ever come

same shit over and over again” I

at me shocked, Probably because I talked back.

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

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smile. “How does it feel to lose Rowan?

that he’s with your sister

it 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

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

bitch!” she snarls before

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

think when

throw it at her.

Both of us staring in shock. With what I

screaming like a banshee. I take

on and throw it

crowd and one or two of them had their phones out. It

someone grabs her by the waist. Another

in the opposite direction.

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