The Girl He Craves

The Girl He Craves By Demiah13 Chapter 177

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

glass piercing through my heel one of those mornings after

rampage.

when I cried out in pain, he looked at me dead in

maid to help me. He didn’t come to see

day too.

had me stay up alone in my room, crying my eyes out.

that day,

the fact that I lost my father

mother.

other coldly, like we were not father and daughter

did what he asked and made

course, I

wrong dad,’ I

in a while

He looks surprised when he heard my words. There’s a flicker in his gaze,

past and the way he looked at me before mom

years

ever been. Do you regret meeting her? Sharing life

life with her?’

adam’s apple bob as he swallowed and

when it comes to your mother Meredith.’ He tore

pain deep

’If I had to go back I’d do it all over

again. ■

I could hear the

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

who he loves dearly. You’re trying to tear his family apart. Why

this is a good idea? Why do you want to hurt

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

choose her all over again, but the

Love is

now that he

Every bit of it is

beautiful. Stop hurting Aiden because

with Grant, my father had tried his best to change my mind

But Grant and I run away and

way, he thinks that I had

his actions that drove me

lost his wife and then he lost

In a way, I understood his loneliness and how a dead mind

action they take,

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

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