Chapter 33
Eleanor
Maybe I am ready to face these questions after years of shying away from them.
With a nod. I muttered softly. “Yeah”
“Are you sure you do not feel anything! Don’t get me wrong. Vi–but after everything you went through, it’s impossible to not feel anything Whether good or bud,”
“I thought I was numb to it, I admitted. “But when Avro came to my office weeks ago, I realized how much I was fooling myself”
“You weren’t fooling yourself, she assured. “In fact, you were moving on
Thummed and a sigh followed.
I hate to admit it but sometimes i wish things didn’t turn out this way!
“What do you mean!”
“I met Aveo when I was way too young fresh out of college, with just a little experience here and there. I didn’t want nothing that wasn’t gotten by myself I paused to swallin hand.
“Everything I wanted was nothing my Dad wanted for me. When I inet Acro. I was uh–I was studying for an exam that my Dad had forced me to take and he tea- he had just gotten our of law school,”
“Damer man, when he walked to me that day, I knew deep down that this man was going to be the end of me and there I was smiling, giggling, and thinking it was just another love story”.
“He said his name is Aero and we talked- he told me how difficult it is because he was dumped just a few weeks before his finals”
“Ouch
I gave a nod. “He got me syampathizing with him but he said it’s nothing his firart got all heated up the moment he got close”
Asmall laugh formed in my mouth at the memory of a young Arro trying to woo me. I swear that it wasn’t making any sense until I started feeling the same way. I would feel the butterflies in my tummy whenever he was close and when he was far away. Dann in. I hated it so much”
to look at Viola to see if she was paying attention and well. Vi has never appeared to be more attentive than now
I turned to
“We were trends- good friends but I guess the focus was always on him because I knew he was going through a whole lot and I needed him to be tine. I knew every damn thing about lum and well, let’s his say he didn’t know so much aboia me”
“Really?
“Yeah, I figured there was no point crying anything so we kept going, he finally made it out with a good result and the next thing was to get inta practice. I really had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. V. This minute it felt like Thail something in mind but the next minute, it just faded into nothing
Iexhaled audibly. “I started going i
g through case law with Avro, trying to figure out the facts of cases and just a bunch of other things even though I had absolutely no idea what ice were doing.”
all just so much fun because I was doing it with him. He got his first brief, made a move and won.
Another smile formed on my face but this time, I pushed it back. He asked me to marry him, VI. I may not have known what I wanted in life but I knew everything in me wanted to do lite with Arra”
We made plans–so many plans but there was none about my career. It was just all Mern and him, and him. I didn’t even see nothing wrong with in and when I told my sister, she didn’t seem pleased. She said I was making a mistake and I agree now. Avro is the biggest inistake I have ever mad
“No, Viols called in the most comforting tone ever
I know Vi. Isbould have listened to my sister and even my father when they said I need to pn myself first. Everything felt perfect with being Avro’s wife and when we got married, he said he wanted me home to himself.
He said he couldn’t stand another man looking at me in the same way cause he knows Fom his world. I was so foolish, damn 1 agreed to every word, every plan abolishing my future plam”
Chapter 33
*I kept working on his cases with him; creating the best opening statemers for him, until one day, he didn’t need my b
Vi’s brows arched together and I knew she was about to ask why.
my help”
“He said he’d handle it at work and although that was very strange, I said okay. He started staying back at the office saying it was work, work, and
work”
“I didn’t even realize his ex was back until he won a case and it was her he celebrated with. Not me, Vi
I’m so sorry
I shook my head. “I still gave him the benefit of doubt saying Avro would never hurt me. Not with someone who left him to rot and fail his exams. She dumped him and I did everything to make him feel okay, again. If for anything for that I was hoping nothing was going on
My voice went lower. “It was all a thought in my head until it became a nightmare right in front of me. He said he wanted a break and it was because of her”
“This is so fucked up,” she cussed. “And where s sise now?”
“Oh, I have no idea. Maybe marries, overseas- – 1 just don‘ know
And you didn’t ask him?”
“No. I’ll never do that. I don’t even want him thinking that is still hurts me.
“But it does” she said gently and I gave a nod.
“It fucking dors, every day?
““And Abbie? He doesn’t know about ber, does her
He will never know
she gave a small nod. “This is a for Nor and Fre really sorry I brought this up
“Oh, it’s fine.” I said smiling, I duln’t even realize a tear dropped down my eyes and in that moment I wiped is off with my finger.
“What do you say about waving this feeling off?” Vi asked. “Tuh–Thate to see you this way.
I gave her a soft smile. “What do you have!!
