A kiss
Ava.
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I am still recovering from my attack. I am mentally and physically battered and I just want all this
to be over. Three times someone has tried to kill me. Three times I managed to survive. I just don’t
know when my luck will run out because at this point whoever wants me dead seems hell–bent on
making sure I don’t see Noah again.
I shiver when I remember how close to meeting my maker I had been. He had been right there in
my house. He’d planned to rape me there before killing me. Tears fill my eyes and it takes
everything in me not to let them fall.
I’ve cried enough this past few days. I was tired of it, but I just didn’t understand why. Why would
anyone want me dead? I haven’t wronged anyone, well except for Emma. Even with her, she was
now with Rowan so that should have absolved me of my sins. I didn’t deserve what was happening
to me.
My greatest fear was that they succeed. It would mean that I don’t get to see my boy growing up.
That I would miss all the milestones in his life and it saddened me. The thought of that potential
future broke my heart into a million different pieces.
“Are you okay miss?” someone asks me.
I look up to find an elderly woman staring at me with concern. Her kind eyes assessing my face. It
was still a bit bruised but at least the swelling had gone down. Now I just had the healing lip,
black eye and purple cheek.
“I’m okay, thank you” I try to smile, but I just don’t feel like it.
I’ve been in a kind of funk since my attack happened. I’m just going through the motions. Nothing
feels real, it all just feels like a bad dream. I was still waiting for myself to wake up. Deep down I
know that this is real, but a part of me thinks if just pretend then it will all go away.
“You don’t look okay…Do you want me to call someone for you?” she asks.
like this woman, then the world
in the middle of an isle in a store
is no need. I’m okay, just a
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myself to smile. I
be left
hand. “Things will get better.
look before leaving. I heave a sigh
like hell” the annoying
I wasn’t in any
to ignore her, but like always it
finally put your in place when you tried stealing
secretary sneers.
was baiting me and
Someone had managed to leak the story
They had also managed to find out about the
trying to find out who had leaked the story after he had buried the other
any chance she got to put
when I told him she was
I’m the one
to achieve when I know you know full well exactly
to me” I
not trying to achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t be surprised if
a woman you tried stealing her man, after all, that’s
because
body then back up. She looked
like I had gone a few
you still tell me the same
the same shit over and over
me shocked, Probably because I talked back.
Rowan’s bad side. This time though,
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recovers quickly and gives me an evil smile. “How does it feel to lose Rowan?
with your sister right
kill the love I have for him. It also helps that Ethan distracts me from thoughts of my
I was his wife while you were nothing but a mere secretary one he had no interest in. So, I pose the same question back, how does it feel to know you will never be his woman? That he will never see you as anything other than his secretary. How does it feel to know that he doesn’t consider you woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even
ugly bitch!” she snarls before
and she trips on her extremely
quickly she comes at me. I don’t think when I
throw it at her.
us staring in shock. With what I can
like a
throw it at
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