Chapter 9
1030 Words
I knock briefly on the bathroom door, and open it wide enough to pop my head through and see Ava crying sat underneath the shower.
"Oh, Avs, Princess. None of this is because of you. I swear, Ava. Please give me a chance."
I try to ease her pain. I enter the bath room fully, turn off the shower and retrieve a towel for her.
"I did give you a chance, Wade. I turned up to that crazy wedding. We exchanged vows that made me, yours and you,mine. But I wasn't enough, I wasn't her.”
She says through sobs, how can she not know that I held onto that childhood promise of forever being each others. Maybe I was being foolish.
She stands and takes the towel off me, but I can't help notice her naked body, she must notice my eyes filling with lust as my gaze burns over every inch of her skin. She turns to wrap the towel around herself. I reach for her as I urge her to stop.
"Don't, please. Don't hide from me, your perfect Ava, I was so incredibly stupid last night, but I promise it was no more than a familiar kiss to a long work college."
"I've known you a lot longer, Wade, and she earned more in a few hours than I have in years."
The hurt evident in her voice.
Ava turns and sits on the side of the bed, with her eyes to the floor. I kneel down in front of her, trying to look into her eyes. I hold her hands inside mine, and I can't help but notice the sheer size difference.
"I'm sorry, princess, I don't know what else to say. My behaviour towards you yesterday was disgusting. You didn't deserve it, any of it. Please, Ava, tell me how to make this right."
"You need to let Reaper inside."
All I can do is chuckle at her response which earns me a meek smile.
"With all this pain you're feeling and you're still thinking of someone else."
"Please, Wade, just leave me. Go find someone else who makes you happy. It isn't me, and it never will be me."
All jokiness leaves my body. Ill never let her go not that shes bound to me.
"Ava, Never.”
I warn, then I add
"I didn't mind the getting married part. Obviously, it was less than ideal. But you know how my father can be. He gets an idea in his head, and that's it. I just didn't want..."
"Me, you can say it, I'm not stupid Wade. You just didn't want me."
She stands and tries to step around me but i’m faster and bigger than her.
"Ava, you're my best friend's, kid sister."
Why can’t I just find the words to tell her what she means to me. Then I notice her towel has slipped and she’s stood infront me naked again.
" I WANTED YOU,WADE.”
She gasps and places her hands over her mouth. Then looks around the room, scouting for her escape. So I move to block the bedroom door.
"Not this time, we're doing this, no running away, Ava."
I tell her crossing my arms across my chest, noticing her gaze at my arms.
"And what did you mean by 'you did you wait for me'? "
I Continue, curious about the slip up from last night.
"You were drunk."
"My ears worked just fine. There was bound to have been boyfriends?”
She simply shakes her head, peering to the floor again.
"A first kiss ?"
I add
“You, Wade. My Prom night. Happy now ?”
I sit on the end of the bed, with the weight of a thousand truths hitting me at once. As she wraps the towel around her once again.
"s**t !"
I exclaims as I punch down on the mattress, then chose to walk off to think and calm down.
I return to her, to find her curled back in bed, offering her a cup off coffee and her medication.
"Thank you."
She says, staring down at her cup.
"Milk, no sugar. Um, Nate told me."
I add as Reaper jumps up curling arounjuher body as if to protect her space as she takes her tablets.
"What's going on with them, Avs?"
I asks.
"Nothing to worry about."
She tried to appease me.
"If yesturday was anything to go by, I'd say it is a cause to worry."
"Honestly, I hadn't taken them in days before the wedding. They slipped my mind. I'm fine."
I decide to leave that topic of conversation there, growing up with 2 females in my house I’m well aware of the word fine and it’s meaning to leave it there. I take a good drink of my coffee.
"I wanted to talk to you about something."
I sit next to her on the bed and her eyes dart to me.
"I need to fly back to America, I'm not sure for how long, come with me ?"
I offer trying to extend and olive branch. As she stands looking for clothes.
"Oh, in here, sorry."
I open a white panelled door that matches the bedroom walls to display a walk-in wardrobe and gesture to the left side filled with items for her
"Um, thanks."
"Wasn't me, thank Penny."
I state, watching her every move as she glances around her side of the wardrobe.
"I don't think so, Wade, I'm sorry."
"Huh?"
I snap out of my gaze and adjust my growing bulge, then step back into the bedroom
"America. I don't think I'll come with you. I think it'll be wise to let the dust settle from last night. I already feel like an i***t. I don't need the news in agreement."
She says coming back into the bedroom,I let my actions show her how I fell and I pull her to me, lift her head up with her chin, and kiss her. Hoping to remind her of her prom night and my hands caress her. She gives in and returns the kiss. As I plan to deepen the kiss, she freezes and pulls away.
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