His remedy
Present day.
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“So you see, they have a reason to hate me…I ruined their love” I mutter as tears fill my eyes.
It’s always painful for me to go down memory lane. I was naïve and foolish. Thinking that I could
ake him love me after I literally ruined his life. Nine years later and I’m still paying the price for
loving Rowan Woods.
“It wasn’t your fault?” Ethan asks me, his fingers slowly caressing mine.
“It was. I let my obsession with him take center stage and because of that I made the biggest
mistake of my life” the tears fall freely now.
If only I could go back in time. If only I could change things. I’ve lived my life in regret. I wish I
had listened to that nagging voice in my head. I wish I had payed attention to it instead of
ignoring it. It would have saved me from so much heartache and pain.
Hell, I wish I had realized earlier that I was pregnant. I could have escaped earlier. I would have
left and never told Rowan that I was pregnant with his child. No one would have been the wiser. I know it sounds downright evil but looking back now it would have saved Noah from seeing Rowan
I fight all
gone to a place where no one knew me. A place so far away from my family and Rowan. A place no one knew them. I’m sure they wouldn’t even have bothered looking
would have just been fine with
“Ava?”
response. I had gotten lost in
said it wasn’t you fault. You were also drunk, so if they were blaming you, they should
him
me?” I ask him
believed that I was drunk. They all thought I was malicious and I took advantage of
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innocent?” his blue eyes seer into me. As if he was trying
That I wasn’t drunk at
that
I think that my memory is faulty. I mean
through at Rowan’s hand was my punishment. That God was punishing me for wanting and sleeping with
their truth and beliefs down your throat. That’s what happened with me. Soon after I started believing them. Believing that I was
put me through, Rowan especially. That a man you love could destroy you leaves you wondering if
saved. He was anchor during the times when I wanted to end it all. During the times when I felt so
of it. I knew that Rowan would take good care of him. He fell in love with Noah
that darkness when I realized what leaving Noah would mean. I didn’t want him to think I was weak. Most especially I didn’t want Emma as his step mother. I knew Rowan would get back together with her and I was afraid she would transfer her hate for me
at the vile words she spewed at me concerning Noah, I’m glad that I had chosen to stay strong
no one was to blame. You parents should have been ashamed for placing the entire blame on an eighteen year old girl. Rowan should have
I’m the one that sought him
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you alcohol knowing that you weren’t supposed to be drinking” he pulls his hand from mine and runs it through his hair. “The more I know about
I was beginning to hate them
says then
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