Anxious heart
Rowan

“Sir? Is there anything you need me to get for you from the restaurant?” My secretary asks, but I continue

staring outside my office window.

The view was really great. It was one of the reasons why I chose it, but today it didn’t offer me the

tranquility it usually does.

“No. Not today,” I answer without looking at her.

“Okay then, I’ll be back in thirty minutes”

I don’t answer her and after a few seconds I hear the door closing. I sigh in frustration. For some reason

the feeling of foreboding clung to me. It surrounded me in waves. Today more so than the previous days.

I don’t know what it is, but my heart is anxious. I can’t settle nor can I fucking focus. It’s like my soul is

trying to tell me something, but I can’t figure out what.

Trying to distract myself, I think about Ava and our talk. I get her. Damn do I get her hesitation. I’ve spent

more than ten years drilling into her that Emma was the only woman I’ll ever love.

I did everything in my power to show her just how little I cared for her. I’ve spent nine years punishing her

for something that was beyond her control. I drilled into her head that I hated her with every fiber of my

being.

How then could I turn around and claim to love her?

It’s frustrating as hell, but I understand her. I understand her reluctance to believe me. If the roles had

been switched I wouldn’t have believed it so easily.

Apart from all that, I also have to consider the pain I’ve caused her. Nine years of pain and mistreatment isn’t something you get over within a day or week. Hell. It will probably take years to heal the wounds i

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and considering the damage

she’ll ever forgive me.

in my life. I want to build a life with her. I crave that more than anything, but if she doesn’t take me

I’ve caused over the

her beautiful face and tactics I could use to get her to

never felt this way before. Never had this unshakable feeling like something bad was going to happen. I try to assure myself, but it doesn’t work. I stand up and start pacing again. I felt wired.

crazy.

my hair, probably messing it up, but I don’t fucking care. Not when I feel like my fucking heart was being

voices will help me calm down. It was better than listening to my own since it was distorted, jumbled and confused the hell out of

I turn to find Gabe. He looked like hell froze over. He was breathing heavily, his eyes looked bloodshot and there was

anguish in them.

My brother is usually impeccable and not easily fazed. We share

as my

our

his sentence. His voice was mixed

wrong. Is it mom or

swallow, before his eyes focus on

he finally

to ask him what’s wrong with Ava when an unrecognizable voice mentions her name. I begin

the direction

My brother begs me, but I don’t pay attention to

what the hell the reporters

BREAKING NEWS.

written in

Sharp family and founder of The Hope Foundation was today gunned down by unknown people. We are yet to know the state she’s in, but the gunman opened fire to what seems

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but nothing could have prepared me to watching the woman

multiple times

showed Ava as she was walking out of an ice cream shop.

face. Whoever took the video captured a black

Just before the drove past her, a masked person, rolled the window down just

gun, before shooting several times. They sped past her, leaving Ava to crumble on the

pool of blood

ends, and the presenter comes

to establish why these gangsters would shoot a pregnant woman, but stay tuned as we

find out.”

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