ACE
She stood there gawking at me. I’d left her speechless—that much I was sure of.
I kept walking deeper into the garden, lost in memories… of my mother.
It was her garden. She loved it like a child—probably because it was the only thing she had control over, especially when it came to my old man. Everything about her life revolved around him.
My mother loved him too much, and that was the beginning of her downfall.
She couldn’t leave him, no matter what.
Not that he would have let her. She knew too much about the family. But Mason… my father… he loved her too, in his own twisted way. Her absence destroyed him from the inside out.
I envied their love.
But it was dangerous—for both of them.
A love like theirs is the kind I would always long for… but never pray to have.
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