Chapter 0293
“Has Rowan eaten?”
“Not yet; he told me that he would eat after he was done and that I shouldn’t trouble myself.”
I nod my head. “Okay, then, have a goodnight.”
“Goodnight too”
After she leaves, I make a plate for Rowan. Who knows how long it would be before he finished up. He couldn’t run on an empty stomach. Once I’m done, I take the plate and head to his office.
The door was open, but I still knocked.
He looks up from the papers he was going through. Though he looked tired, probably from lack of sleep,
he still looked so fucking hot.
“You know you don’t have to knock, Ava,” he says as he leans back against his chair.
I want to remind him that it wasn’t like that before, but I refrain from it. In the past, he wouldn’t even allow
me anywhere near his office. Especially when he was inside it.
“I brought you dinner,” I tell him, trying to push the past away.
Crossing the room, I place the plate of food in front of him. I was about to round the desk and sit on one of the chairs, but he stops me.
He grasps my hand and pulls me towards him, making me sit on his lap. Not that I minded one bit.
“Hmm, I’ve missed you… I can’t wait for this deal to be sealed so I can spend quality time with you” he murmurs, his voice pulling me into a seductive web.
Unconsciously, I shift around in his lap drawing a groan from him. His arm tightens around my waist as he runs his nose along my neck, sending shivers down my spine.
“You smell divine.”
“It’s my body wash,” I mumble unintelligently.
Damn it. I need to be laid. I wanted S** so bad, but I didn’t know how to ask him for it or how to approach him about it. He was always the one who initiated S** before. I tried once, and he rejected me. I’ve never tried again. I always waited for him to come to me, so that’s what I’m still doing.
“You need to eat, Rowan,” I tell him, breaking the spell.
It would be so easy to take advantage of his tired state. All I had to do was straddle him, open his zip, and push my panties aside. Given how wet I was, he would slide inside me easily, and we would both get what
we wanted.
I can’t do that, though. This merger was important to him. I couldn’t jeopardize that for S**. Maybe when his head isn’t occupied, I’ll try seducing him, but not right now.
He sighs, but doesn’t say anything. After a while, he begins to eat. I try to get up, but he refuses to let me
- go.
“Can I ask you for a favor?” I ask after a while.
He nods.
“Can you please let Emma go?” I plead gently.
This was the right thing to do. I couldn’t teach Noah about hatred while I harbored hatred in my heart. It
wouldn’t do me any good. I didn’t want to hold grudges. I had Rowan. My focus was on building my
marriage with him.
The spoon drops from his hand. “Absolutely no”
“Please? What she did was wrong, but I don’t want to hold on to bitterness and anger. I don’t want her punished because I believe that karma is real. I’m doing this for me, Rowan, not her or Travis. I want to heal and move forward and I can only do that by letting go of the past.”
“But she hurt you,” he sighs, refusing to let the issue go.
“Yes, and according to what Travis told me, for two weeks she’s been paying for that mistake. She’s probably learned her lesson.”
He is stubborn, and I can see the reluctance in his eyes. He was fighting the truth of my words.
“Please?” I plead sweetly, cupping his cheek gently.
His eyes focus on mine, and the moment they do, they soften. Love takes over.
I watch as this fierce man melts in front of me. It’s a sight to behold, and I cherish each second I get to see it.
“Fine,” he agrees. “But on one condition.”
“What’s that?” I ask curiously.
He smiles mischievously, making me want to kiss him.
“That you go on a date with me…we’ve never gone on a date. It’s time I changed that”
This time I’m the one that smiles, as happiness and excitement fill me.
Synopsis
Ava: Nine years ago I did something terrible. it wasn’t one of my best moments but I saw an opportunity to have the guy I’ve loved since I was a young girl and I took it. Fast forward to years later and I’m tired of living in a loveless marriage. I want to free both of us from a marriage that should never have taken place. They say if you love something…. It was time to let him go. I know he’ll never love me and that I’ll never be his choice. His heart will always belong to Her and despite my sins, I deserve to be loved. Rowan: Nine years ago, I was so in love I could barely see right. I ruined it when I made the worst mistake of my life and in the process I lost the love of my life. I knew I had to step up in my responsibility and so I did, with an unwanted wife. With the wrong woman. Now she has once again flipped my life by divorcing me. To make matters even more complicated, the love of my life is back in town. Now the only question is, who is the right woman? Is it the girl I fell head over heels in love with years ago? or is it my ex wife, the woman I never wanted but had to marry?
