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

that broken glass piercing through my

rampage.

out in pain, he looked at me dead in

eyes, and told the maid to

day too.

Instead, he had me stay up alone in my room, crying my

thing that hurt that day, my heart was

That day I came to terms with the fact that

mother.

that day, we regarded each other coldly, like

I did what he asked and made sure to not

But of course, I met Grant and everything

wrong

in a while too. Always

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

past and the way he

beautiful. It’s worth it. Those years you shared with mom, I was sure

been. Do you regret meeting

life with her?’

his adam’s apple bob as he swallowed and croaked out. “No. I

it comes to your mother Meredith.’ He tore his eyes away,

pain deep within his

do it all over again.” He whispered.

again. ■

I could hear the

her now that you’re trying to hurt

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

think this is a good idea?

to me. “Don’t you see I’m

her all over again, but the pain of losing her

unbearable. Love

growing angry now that he was trying

is beautiful. Every bit of it is

Aiden because of

I fell in love with Grant, my father had

But Grant and I run away and never turned

he thinks that I had abandoned

he didn’t realize that it was his actions that drove me to do

wife and then he

I understood his loneliness and how a dead mind and

think any action they take,

cracked. ‘I’m sorry for leaving you the way I did. I’m