~Avery~
I looked at Max with his pleading eyes.
What was he doing in my booth? Was he crazy?
He walked to where I was, and I stood up and punched him right between the eyes.
Now I see why I dreamt of him last night.
Everything he did to me came rushing back to me, and I slapped him.
He did not say anything; he just stared and me with tears rolling down his cheeks.
“What do you want, Max? You are trespassing,” I told him, and he went on his knees.
“Avery, I am sorry,” He said, and I wondered what had gotten into him. Why was he telling me sorry? There was no word to describe what he did to me, so there shouldn’t be a word to take it away.
“What do you want?” I asked him, and he bowed his head.
“I want you to come back to me, Avery,” he said, and I could not believe this guy.
“Are you sick or something? How the fuck do you think I will come back to you after all you did to me because of Michelle?” I said, and he stood up.
“I am sorry, Avery. I later found out that she was lying. She wasn’t pregnant, and you were not beating her. Doctor Alice said Michelle had never been pregnant in her life. All the miscarriages she claimed to have because you beat her were lies. I am sorry,” he said, and I was shocked.
I wasn’t shocked at what he said, but because he was stupid enough to not figure out she was lying about her pregnancy.
“I have scars to show for it, Max. Scars that would never heal on Mia’s body. My body. How do you think that would make me feel?” I asked him, and he bowed his head in shame.
“I do not know what came over me, Ave. I lost it. I lost my mind,” he said in tears, and I could not believe this psycho.
“You did it so much, Max. You did it every night. Every night you fought with Michelle, you came for me; whenever I refused to agree with your actions, you came for me. Whenever I did something you disagreed with, you came for me. I was your punching bag. Your rag. You maltreated me; anything is better than being with you,” I said and looked at him in disbelief. Had he lost his mind?
“How could you even expect that I will leave someone who loves me wholeheartedly and fixed my broken soul? What made you think I would return to you? ” I said, and he looked at me.
I knew he never expected it to come to this. He saw me as a commodity, an object. He even saw his fated like that, too. That was the only reason he requested a swap.
He thought it would be easy. He thought all men were like him and saw women as objects.
It was either that, or he had lost his mind completely.
back, he will, and I will cherish you for the rest of my life. I will let
executed all the men that lied against you and banished their family members. That is how desperate I am,” he
when you are standing in
women out there for him, but you are meant for me. My life was better when you were in it. My world is coming apart without you, Avery. You are my lifeline. Please,” he said,
need me, Max. You have a mate,” I told him, and he
Max? Does Echo not need his mate
to plead his case. So I looked him dead in the eyes to make my demands. Demands I knew he would
and lock Michelle up in the garage and repeatedly beat the shit out
her
let her know that is why you are fucking her; let her know you touched her because you can’t let
and make her feel
spectacle to your
then come back in three years,”
did to me to Michelle for the time he did
knew he couldn’t. He did not have that luxury of time, but those were my terms; an impossible task
hear what being with him sounded like, and he
hear what he did and how long he did it. He needed to
will lose my pack
not know how to handle
and safety schemes have
Leo’s pack, where the luna is
left to me by my father. I can’t lose it,” Max confessed, and I
do it,” I
I can have this conversation with you because I have moved on. I have healed. My heart is in the right place. I am getting married soon, and Marcel and I plan to start a family. I have too much going on for me here. I can’t return to
be my Avery,”
he maltreated me for three
his men over me? Where was it
didn’t give you up. You told people I gave you up, but we both know what happened that day. You deliberately stopped fighting and let them overpower us. You knew I would have no choice but to let
not die for a pack that maltreated me and a man that destroyed me. I had to get away from the beating.
to them, she claimed to be pregnant, so
that wasn’t your fated. Your biggest mistake,” I said boldly, and he opened his
I heard all the things
sleep with me when I am in heat out of pity. How you wished you waited for her,” I said and hearing me say those words
I asked him because we had known each other
didn’t matter. I had known him since I
date until
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