No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

"I'll make it right for what my dad did."

My heart felt as if it had been struck by a blunt instrument.

I turned to him, asking, "Ernest, are you accepting that verdict then? You've been digging into this, haven't you? Your investigation led you to believe your dad messed with the brakes, causing my parents' accident?"

We'd suspected as much before, and he'd promised to get to the bottom of it and give me closure.

But now, without any closure, he seemed to accept a conclusion not even the police could firmly make.

What was this? A brush-off, or did he actually want me to resent him because of his father's actions?

Ernest wouldn't meet my gaze, staying silent.

Thinking about his decision to end things, my chest tightened, "Ernest, did you know this all along? Is that why you broke up with me"

"No," his response was firm.

My heart fluttered as he looked down at the raindrops hitting the ground, "Felicia, I'll keep investigating my father's case. If I find anything, you'll be the first to know. But as it stands, my dad is the prime suspect."

words made it hard for me to breathe. I pressed, "If it weren't for the

deep sadness in his

does that mean?"

don't want you hanging out with the son of someone who might be a murderer. And I don't want you feeling guilty about your parents, either." Ernest's voice broke a little, "Felicia,

So much for fate.

be with me, you don't need to make excuses or use my name as a shield,"

strangeness

cling to you. If

our parents' feud, even if your father is guilty, I won't hold it against you," I

taught me that

they resented their parents for abandoning

explaining that their abandonment allowed them to experience life in an orphanage, a life

of that they met each other and had me, their

parents' death might be connected to your dad, but still chose to be with you," I smiled slightly, "In loving you, I was determined, never once thinking of changing because of

face twitched, clearly affected

but his love was