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

piercing through my heel one of those

rampage.

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

to help me. He didn’t come to

day too.

in my

that day, my heart

terms with the fact that I lost my father the

mother.

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

he asked and made

But of course, I met

wrong dad,’

called him dad in a while too. Always regarded

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

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

worth it. Those years you shared with mom,

regret meeting her? Sharing life with her?

life with her?’

watch his adam’s apple bob as he

anything when it comes to your mother Meredith.’ He

pain deep within his

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

again. ■

hear the raw emotions playing

‘Don’t you think you’re hurting her now that you’re trying to hurt

a son, a woman who he loves dearly.

is a good idea? Why do you want

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

your mother and would choose her all over again, but

Love

hand, growing angry now that he was trying to

Every bit of it is beautiful. Every single emotion

beautiful. Stop hurting Aiden because

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

marry into the Muralo’s. But Grant and

way, he thinks that I had

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

his wife and then he lost

I understood his loneliness and how

any action they take,

‘I’m sorry for leaving you the way