hell happened to him to make him drink this much anyway?” Owen looked at me with pity. This time I didn’t mind the look; I was pitiful indeed. “He lost his wife.” The way Owen said it was like she died or something.

“That is bad man, I am sorry to hear that. I can’t imagine what it must feel like. I don’t know what I would do if my Elsa died. I think I would go crazy.” Olivia got married today, this day marks the day I officially lost my heart. How could I even think of alcohol poisoning when I didn’t have a heart?

I could have alcohol poisoning any day, it could kill me even, I wouldn’t mind. At least this hole and emptiness inside me would be gone. When I got to Summer Strand everything was upside down and there was a lot of work to be done.

I buried myself into work and tried to forget about everything and New Village. I would work the whole day without thinking about it or feeling it but the moment I left the office it would come back. It was this emptiness inside that could not be filled by anything.

I tried different things over the past month to try and ease it, but nothing worked. It made it worse instead. I had the same feeling and lingering loneliness when Olivia was arrested. Back then I would tell myself that she would be back one day, and we would be alright. It would ease then, and I would live another day.

This time, it was not going away, and I think it was because I knew that she was never coming back. That I was alone and that she left me. this time the loneliness, the emptiness will linger until God knows when. I didn’t know what to do with it. it just fucking hurt, so much.

Owen came to me. “Sir, it’s your mother again.” I sighed laying my head on the counter. “She is going to keep calling if I don’t answer, isn’t she?” mother, mother, mother. What could you possibly want now? I divorced Olivia just like you wanted, she is not in my life anymore. What is it now?

There was silence on the other end. “Okay

was about to cut the call. “Yes, mother.” She sighed. “I have apologized to her.” I kept quiet. “I was wrong to blame everything on her.” I still kept my mouth shut.

words. “Fight for her.” I chuckled getting pissed. “What do you think I have been doing since she got out of jail? I tried mother, God knows I tried. But it didn’t work. All I managed to do is push her into the arms of another man. What more can I do now anyway because she is married?”

‘enly. I stood

mine to fight for anymore, mother and I think you apologized a little too late. The damage has been done and there is no fixing it.” I cut the call and felt suffocated in the bar then

at the sky. “Don’t punish me like this I said as if God could hear me, if there was a God. “I have already lost her, isn’t that punishment

I sat down feeling defeated with my head between my legs. “It hurts, please

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another. “Can I join you?”

at the woman. I didn’t care that I was crying. She was a beautiful little thing. “I know how you feel, and I came to this bar to try and numb myself, it doesn’t work, does it?” I just looked at her as she

next to me.

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