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Ava stares at me as if I’m a curious world wonder. One that solely exists wherever she is.
Eli’s smiling, but it’s hauntingly…sad.
“Very contradictive, considering you married the sweetest girl.” I pause. Sam continues wiping away as if she didn’t just drop a bomb. “Did you just call Ava sweet?” “She is. Not my fault you’re too blind to see it.” “Who are you and what have you done to the emotionless Sam I’ve known my entire life?” “I’m not emotionless. I’m selective. Like you.
Because as much as I try to hold on to the illusion, I can see it breaking before my eyes. And the man I love will probably shove me aside and get on with his life down the line as I rot away with the passage of time.
I want to mourn the death of the hope that my husband will ever love me. He likes me just fine, but he can’t love me.
My grip loosens on the phone and it falls on the table as everything rushes back in.
And I know, I just know, that if she’s gone, I’ll make sure it’s the end for me as well.
Life was bright for a moment, full of rosy colors and loud chaos, but now it’s back to being bleak, gray, and hauntingly silent. And I can’t muster the energy to face any of it.
“She’s worth waiting for.” She is. Since she waited years for me to come around. I can do the same. For as long as it takes.
Just admit that you like Jeremy just like Levi loves that tattooed guy. Levi His name is Nikolai, peasant. And he’s more tolerable than his cousin.
Today is my twenty-fourth birthday, but it’s also the day I’m officially discharged from the clinic. Not because I asked or because Papa put pressure on the doctors, but because Dr. Blaine decided I could function properly in society without posing a threat to either myself or others.
“There’s no need to wait.” He strokes my cheek and my skin ignites at the contact. “You have already captured my heart, body, and soul, Ava. I have no clue when it started, but at some point, my possessiveness and obsessiveness with you turned into this inferno of emotions where I was prepared to lose you if it meant protecting you. That’s when I realized I was in love with everything about you, whether it’s your obsession with pink, candy floss, or cheesy books and films. The lack of you has stripped my world of color and made me realize you’re my sole light in the darkness.
“I love you, Eli. I’ve been in love with you since I was a clueless little girl.
The love of my life might not be conventional, but he’s all mine.
“I love you, Mr. King.” “And I love you, Mrs. King.” Now. Forever. She’ll always be my wife. Mine.
