The Girl He Craves

Meredith’s pov

He hauled in a shaky breath, his eyes swimming with sadness. I had hit him with the

past, something that could potentially bring out the man he once was.

’She’s dead.” He whispered, pushing the photo away. “The dead can’t speak.'”

I blinked in sadness, pitying the man he is now today. “But they can still see and hear.

If mom was here, she’d smack you upside your head and then nurse your wounds.”

He clenched his fists, turning away from me completely.” Is this why you came here?

To remind me of why I’m actually doing what I’m doing? Look at me, Meredith.” His

eyes snapped up to mine suddenly and I had to take in a very sharp inhale as

emotions swam through the windows of his soul.

Father was in more pain than I realized.

’I’m a shell of a man because of her. I can love no other, I have a permanent hole in

my heart because of her. Love is selfish Meredith, the pain is unbearable. I tried to

save you from it too,” He looked over my shoulder at Grant.

He continued. “But I was too late. I need to save my grandson before it’s too late.”

I shook my head, reaching out for him. My heart ached for my father. A man who once

believed love was the answer to everything now made love his enemy. It was painful

and tormenting to watch him become this person.

When my fingers touched his hand, he flinched. His eyes swept to mine in shock. I

don’t remember the last time I held my father’s hand or the last time I voluntarily stood

this close to him.

After mom died, our father-daughter relationship was swept up and tom into shreds.

He would come home late from work, smell of booze, and trash the entire place.

I can recall listening to a few bottles shattering on the wall. I can even remember the

of that broken glass piercing through my heel one

rampage.

cried out in pain, he looked at me

to help me. He didn’t

day too.

my room, crying my eyes out. My

thing that hurt that day,

I came to terms with the fact that I

mother.

regarded each other coldly,

what he asked and made sure to not

course, I met Grant and

wrong dad,’ I

called him dad in a while too. Always regarded

my words. There’s a flicker in his gaze, a

and the way

Those years you shared with mom, I

you regret meeting her? Sharing

life with her?’

bob as he swallowed and croaked

anything when it comes to your mother

pain deep within his

to go back I’d do it all

again. ■

heart squeezed. I could hear the raw emotions playing in his

think you’re hurting her now that you’re

son, a woman who he loves dearly. You’re trying to tear his family

this is a good idea? Why do

“Don’t you see I’m trying to help

your mother and would choose her all over again, but the pain

unbearable. Love

now that he was trying to justify his

thinking. “Love is beautiful. Every bit of it

Stop hurting Aiden because of

When I fell in love with Grant, my father had

and I run away and never turned back.

way, he thinks that

was his actions that drove

He lost his wife and then he

In a way, I understood his loneliness and how

someone insane to think any action they take, is really for the

sorry for leaving you the