1. She deserves better.

Rowan.

My eyes snap open. Rays of light hitting me square in the face. I groan in pain. My head was

pounding as if there was someone using it as a fucking drum.

It takes a while to register that I am in my room, in Gabe’s house. It’s something we both did. He

has a room at my house, and I have one in his.

Groaning, I stand up and head to the bathroom. I turn on the shower and step under it. Using my

hands for support, I lean against the wall and try to put my jumbled thoughts in order. I don’t

remember much of last night except drinking.

Fuck! How the hell did I get here? How is it possible that I fell in love with Ava and didn’t realize it

sooner?

The moment the realization hit me, I went straight to the club. I rarely get drunk. I promised

myself not to ever get butt drunk after Noah was born. Normally, I just take a class or two, and

that’s enough. Yesterday, though, I needed it. I needed it badly.

There is no remedy for what I was feeling. No fucking cure. How do you even begin to deal with

the realization that you love the woman that you hated? The same woman you spent nine fucking

years hurting?

I sigh and get out of the bathroom. Feeling like I have aged at least thirty years. I haven’t been this

out of sorts in years.

After getting dressed, I head downstairs. I find Gabe having breakfast.

“Where is June?” I ask, referring to his housekeeper.

“She’s made us breakfast and left. She said that she wanted an early start to the market so she

could get fresh veggies.”

June had a thing against buying from grocery stores. For some reason, she believed that they

weren’t as fresh or organic as they wanted us to believe. She buys all vegetables, fruits, meat,

eggs, and milk from the local market, which is owned by a bunch of farmers.

“How are you feeling?” Gabe asks as I pour myself some coffee.

“Like I’ve been hit by a truck.”

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and tell her immediately. I would have if my rational side hadn’t won.

believed me at

new awareness, I was fucking terrified. Is this how she used

feel? Loving me but also knowing

begins, “I thought you swore never to get drunk ever again.”

know, but I needed it. I needed to numb the pain. You can’t understand how difficult it was to realize that I love Ava. That all this time I’ve caused her nothing but pain. It was suffocating me to

that I may have lost my chance with her all because I

time I show up to pick Noah up, and she frowns at me in disapproval. Or when, at times, she looks at

affect me because I crave her. I follow her around like a damn lost puppy, begging for any scraps of affection she’ll give me. Even if it’s bitterness, I take it

the only way to be near

never thought of what she went through at my hands. What she is dishing out is nothing compared to what I did to her. Yet

nine fucking years?

with me. Wants me to be completely out of her life for good. I want

she deserves better, but I can’t let her go no matter how I fucking

that happen? The last time I

asks me, looking puzzled.

were in love with Emma.”

one that insisted that I had suppressed

was about that. He wouldn’t let it go, even after I told

I wasn’t in love with Ava. I guess he just knows me better than I know myself.

I didn’t want

your insistence

was wrong.”

“You were fucking right. My only wish is that

to mend

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Lost in the bitter memories. Memories

I broke her. My actions and words

until there

wish to be in your shoes” Gabe whistles and I glare at him.

want to know when it happened. When did you fall for

Maybe it

a recent thing. All I know is that I

my hand through my hair. I was frustrated

you love someone!

think it was always there. Probably came after

love her because you held on to the memory of Emma. She was your first love,

live with someone

you, Ro. You wouldn’t even have touched her if

a biological process. I just got what I needed from her while still hating her. I am

times I imagined she was Emma.” I tell him,

treated her. 1

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imagine you were fucking Emma because you missed her

Something that would guard you from enjoying the

you felt that enjoying S** with her would be

Emma that you held on to for

on the stool completely

I

about it like that. I admit

the hell I was

Emma as an

my life once; how then

again by sleeping with and enjoying Ava’s body? It all made sense

realize that Emma was never

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