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

broken glass piercing through my heel one of those mornings after

rampage.

flinch when I cried out in

maid to help

day too.

alone in my room, crying my eyes out. My foot

that

That day I came to terms with the fact that I lost my father

mother.

coldly, like

what he asked and made sure to not upset

But of course, I met Grant and everything

wrong dad,’ I

called him dad in a while too. Always regarded

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

past and the way he looked at

It’s worth it. Those years you shared with mom,

you regret meeting her? Sharing life with her?

life with her?’

adam’s apple bob as he

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

pain deep within his

I had to go back I’d do it all over again.” He whispered. “I’d

again. ■

squeezed. I could hear the raw emotions

now that you’re trying to hurt her

he loves dearly. You’re trying

this is a good idea? Why

see I’m trying to help him Meredith? Yes. I

over

Love is

growing angry now that he was trying to justify

bit of it

because of what I

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

Muralo’s. But Grant and I run away and never turned

that I had abandoned

he didn’t realize that it was his actions

his wife and then he lost his

a way, I understood his loneliness and how a dead

any action

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