Chapter 97
Tear snaked its ugly hand around my neck, choking me as even darker memories from my childhood came to my mind.
They were all the same,
The worst part? The worst realization of all was that I knew something else.
I was in love with Aidan.
Always had been, but all I had been to him was a toy to play games with.
Sniffing back the rest of my tears, I turned the shower off, feeling a numbness in my skin from the hotness of the water, but I didn’t care.
only cared about my child and keeping her safe.
With my heart so heavy that I could barely walk, I began packing our bags, ready to leave this pack and all the evil in it behind for good. I couldn’t keep doing this to my daughter.
With each item that went in our bags–jewelry, a shirt, a book- memories attached to them replayed in my head, and somehow, it always included Aidan. had succeeded in making himself a big part of our lives, so much so that me and my daughter were head over heels in love with him, only for me to find out that he’s a master manipulator and a liar.
It hurts.
More than words could express
When I was done packing. I lay on the bed through the rest of the night, lying still, without batting an eye. Before the first light broke, I was ready, and I went into Nadia’s room to get her ready too.
“Come on honey, we have to get dressed.”
Her eyes were still heavy with sleep as she asked. “Are we going to see grandma?”
“No.” I shook my head. “Actually, we’re going home. Work and school can’t wait anymore.”
Nadia
grumbled, almost resulting in a cry, but there was no getting z out of this.
I didn’t think I could face Aidan after what he did, and knowing that Kayla, the woman who tried to kill me and my child, was still roaming free in this pack, it was the last place I wanted to be,
Events from the week appeared in my mind’s eye for the umpteenth time in hours, but it still didn’t make the thoughts any y easier. The week had been perfect, and Aidan had gone out of his way to make us happy, or seemingly so. I couldn’t stop wondering where it all went wrong
We were ready within an hour, and I
I managed to push the heaviness in my heart to the side as we made our way outside to the cab.
I didn’t even get to tell Mom that we were leaving, but I had her number now, and I’d just call her to figure out how things would be from there.
Nadia was clutching my arm, and our bags were being loaded in the car, but I’d been so in my head that I didn’t notice a presence around me until my din started to prickle with irritation.
Turning around sharply, the world tilted on its axis when I
I come face to face with…Kayla.
Friend turned for.
She looked the same for a decade later, just dressed obnoxiously expensive as a billionaire’s wife would, but that wasn’t what got to me at
Her smile was flattering, almost deceptive, and anyone could have been fooled into thinking it was genuine. Anyone else but me.
My eyes instinctively went down to her hand to find it free of any weapons, but I didn’t pur behind me as my heart thrashed in my ribcage and blood pounded in my ears.
in
it past her. I grabbed
Nadia be
by her shoulders, shaving her
1 relived it all in that moment, feeling it all at once. The betrayal, the hurt, the anger, but most importantly, the fear.
monster after all these years. No hug for me?”
Chapter 97
1 shut my eyes briefly for only a second- as her peculiar singsong voice settled over my skin like an itchy rash. As the dark memories came back to life, it was only by sheer resolve that I didn’t snap loose, and aim for her throat.
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