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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that I loved Ava, part of me wanted to rush back to her house and tell her immediately. I would have if my rational

believed me

but with this new awareness, I was fucking terrified. Is this

feel? Loving me but also knowing that

swore never

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

chance with her all because I couldn’t let go of my bitterness”

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

I follow her around like a damn lost puppy, begging for any scraps of

way

of what she went through at my hands. What she is dishing out is nothing compared to

nine fucking years?

to do with me. Wants me to be completely

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

that happen? The last time I

asks me, looking puzzled.

you were in love with

the one that insisted that I had

wouldn’t let

Ava. I guess he just knows me

didn’t

gut was telling me you loved Ava, but your insistence at times made me doubt that maybe

was wrong.”

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

to mend

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memories. Memories where I had her, but instead

actions and words

until there was nothing

whistles and I glare at him.

know when it happened. When did

don’t know. I can’t pinpoint the exact time. Maybe it happened when we were still

it’s a recent thing. All I know is that

frustrated and fucking scared. What

you love someone!

after Noah was born. I also think you

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

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

You wouldn’t even have touched her if you didn’t feel something

a biological process. I just got what I

she was Emma.” I tell him, feeling sick to the

treated her. 1

1

were fucking Emma because you missed

that would guard you from enjoying the

Ava because you felt that enjoying S** with her

held on to

on the stool completely

I

that. I

I explain how the

Gabe was right, and I used Emma as an escape from what I truly

the love of my life once;

by sleeping with and enjoying Ava’s body? It all made sense in my head then,

starting to realize that Emma was never the

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