Tangled Love

CHAPTER 99

Emily's POV -

I twiddle my thumbs and actually laugh out loud as I realise what I'm doing. This is how I know I've reached the ultimate peak of boredom. I sigh and attempt to brush my hair back with my fingers, grimacing at how dirty the strands feel.

I grab my phone from my bedside table, turning it on. My eyes widen as it springs to life and I realise I have over fifty messages. I scroll through them, pausing on one from my mother —

I'm so sorry Emily.

I re-read the text over and over again until the four words begin to blur on the screen. Jake's words play through my mind and I shake my head, feeling hurt.

How could she only visit me in the hospital once?

I'm her daughter, her only daughter.

is she apologising

being kidnapped?

for Trevor beating me?

shot by

Never telling me he was my real father?

way she treated, spoke or threatened

is endless.

to have my only alive treat me like I'm non existent. My

it back up but right now, things are too raw, cut too deep. I need

a fighter and instead of being ashamed of them, I want to learn to embrace them. The scars are

at peace with my scars. I trace over my wrists, remembering how the ropes had cut deep into them a mere

feeling empty. I didn't register the fact he was really gone but once it hit me, a huge weight lifted from

my phone off and throw it to the end of the bed,

find Jake standing there. My eyes meet with two police officers,I've never seen either of

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