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

through my heel one of those

rampage.

even flinch when I cried out in pain,

his soulless eyes, and told the maid to help me. He didn’t come

day too.

stay up alone in my room, crying

hurt that day, my heart was

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

mother.

regarded each other coldly,

he asked

I met Grant and everything

wrong dad,’ I

in a

when he heard my words. There’s a flicker in

the past and the way he looked at me before mom

years you shared with mom,

Do you regret meeting her? Sharing life with her?

life with her?’

watch his adam’s apple bob as he

comes to your mother Meredith.’ He tore his

deep within his

back I’d do it all over

again. ■

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

you think you’re hurting her now that you’re trying to hurt her grandson dad?

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

this is a good idea? Why

eyes to me. “Don’t you see I’m trying to help him

and would choose her all over again, but the

Love

now that

Every bit of it is

beautiful. Stop hurting Aiden because of

Grant, my father had tried his best to

But Grant and I run

he thinks that

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

He lost his wife and then he

a way, I understood his loneliness and how

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

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