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

feeling of that broken glass piercing through my heel one of

rampage.

cried out in pain, he looked

told the maid to help

day too.

stay up alone in my

that hurt that

with the fact that I lost my father the same day I lost

mother.

that day, we regarded each other coldly, like we were not father and

I did what he asked and made

course, I met Grant and everything

“You’re wrong dad,’

him dad in a while too. Always regarded

when he heard my words. There’s a

that reminded me of the past and the way he looked at me before mom

Those years you shared with mom,

been. Do you regret meeting her? Sharing life with

life with her?’

his adam’s apple bob as he swallowed

comes to your mother Meredith.’ He

deep within

it

again. ■

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

‘Don’t you think you’re hurting her now that

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

this is a good idea? Why do you want to

snapped his eyes to me. “Don’t you see I’m trying

over again, but the

unbearable. Love is

hand, growing angry now that he

of it is beautiful. Every

Aiden because of what I

I fell in love with Grant, my father had tried his best

But Grant and I run away and never

he thinks that I

realize that it was his actions that drove me to do such

and then

understood his loneliness and how a dead

insane to think any action

blurred my vision as I cracked. ‘I’m sorry for leaving you the way I did.