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

believed me at

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

feel? Loving me but also knowing that

Gabe begins, “I thought you swore never to get

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

have lost my chance with her all because I couldn’t let go

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

it, trying to let it not affect me because I crave her. I follow her around like a damn lost puppy, begging for any scraps of

way to

What she is dishing out is nothing compared to what I did to her. Yet it still fucking hurts. How the hell did she survive me for

nine fucking years?

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

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

that happen? The last time I

asks me, looking puzzled.

you were in

insisted that I had suppressed feelings

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

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

I didn’t want to

but your insistence at

was wrong.”

fucking right. My only wish is that I had relegalized this sooner. Maybe

have been easier to mend

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memories. Memories

her. I broke her. My actions and words chipped at her

until there was nothing

Gabe whistles and I glare

to know when it happened. When did

pinpoint the exact time. Maybe it happened when we were still married,

recent thing. All I know is that I love

frustrated and fucking scared. What a

you love someone!

was always there. Probably came after Noah was born. I also

because you held on to the memory of Emma. She was your

true love. You can’t live with someone for nine years and not

You wouldn’t even have touched her if you

got what I needed from her while still hating her. I

Emma.” I tell him, feeling sick

treated her. 1

1

you imagine you were fucking Emma

you back? Something that would guard you from enjoying the

felt that enjoying S**

of Emma that you held

on the stool completely

I

like that. I admit

how would I explain how the hell I was able to get it up

Emma as an escape

betrayed the love of my life once; how then could I

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

Emma was never the love of my fucking

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