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.

want me to call someone for you?” she

then the world would be a better place. I’m a stranger to

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

is no need. I’m okay, just

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me skeptically. I force myself to smile. I was grateful for her

to be

gets closer and squeezes my hand. “Things

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

like hell” the annoying

I wasn’t in any mood to deal

always it

someone finally put your in place when you tried stealing her man

secretary sneers.

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

had managed to leak the story and

managed to find out about the

trying to find out who had leaked the story after he had

always take any chance she got to

Of course Rowan never believed me when I told him she was a bitch to me.

her side, claiming that I’m the one that

you’re trying to achieve when I

I tell

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

her man,

women’s men because you’re

her body then back up. She looked elegant and impeccable like always while

gone a few rounds with a

these years and you still tell me the

the same shit over and over again”

at me shocked, Probably because I talked back. It’s something I’ve never

getting on Rowan’s bad side. This time

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recovers quickly and gives me an evil smile. “How does it

with your

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

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 consider you woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even though he hated me rather than take you as his mistress? And how

bitch!” she snarls before lunging

and she trips on her extremely

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

throw it at her.

it drenches her dress. Both of us staring

like a

throw

attract a small crowd and one or two of them had their phones out. It was a

was about to slap me, someone grabs her by the

in the opposite direction.

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