Ash P.O.V
Following the revelation from Natalie a month ago, she seemed to settle down. Her moments of sadness dissipated, and her smile was seen more frequently than her sad eyes.
I had been pissed off at myself, to begin with; that I had made her feel like I would run, like I didn’t value her as much as I did. But I couldn’t work out where I had gone wrong. This mess of pain in her heart was put there a long time before we had managed to find one another, and now it was my responsibility to put her back together, just as she had helped to fix me, without ever needing to try.
Things felt renewed between us as the days turned to weeks, and life began to move forward through a new chapter in our story. We spent time sprucing up the house. Even though Esme and I had spent the la
