Chapter 4
EMPOV
I opened my eyes realising she had pushed me away from her, breaking the contact. I watched her calm her breathing, much the same I was. The silence was finally broken when she spoke with an icy vulnerable tone, "Now that it's all said and done, I can't believe I thought you were the one. The words you said when you left… left me cold and out of breath. When you slammed the front door, I knew there was nothing I could have said to change your mind. Well I never saw it coming, but I realise I'm better off without you." She ran her hands through her hair with frustration "I was finally getting some closure, I picked up all the pieces and then you came back." She took another breath and climbed into her truck, "I'm over you Emmett, just like you were over me six months ago…"
I crumpled to the gravel watching her leave… What had I done? How could I fix it? Six months in the Navy and a small, beautiful, pregnant woman was the first and worse thing to bring me down to my knees. She ripped my already broken heart from my chest and drove over it. My jaw hurt as I walked back into the house to ask some pending questions and answer a few inevitable ones…
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