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Giselle

I’ lot of the Crescent Mall and I have every right to be There’s also a hint of unbridled exciteh my veins that cannot be helped but that’s a different story I looked into the rearview mirror at the little head in the car-seat in the back and my heart clutched armth and if I’m honest just a little bit of dread

As my eyes fell on the time readout in the dashboard my heart picked up its pace and my pulse raced uncontrollably He’ll be here any second Will he even acknowledge in to prick the corners of ht but knew they were pointless No a to turn back the hands of time

Nothing is going to ht, I know My ex is not and has never been thehonest I wouldn’t be so quick to forgive me either if the shoe was on the other foot Not after the stunt I’d pulled Soretted every day since but was too late to do anything about now

You see, two years ago I left iven and I didn’t even have the spine to do it in person Just one day he left for work and ca for hih the lawyers who’d been hired

If he’d been a ht find fault with in a life partner, those actions would’ve been warranted, understood even But he wasn’t, he was the world’sman The mate of my heart, the keeper of my joy and happiness

He was everything a girl dreaination No one had ever treated me the way he did back then I’d never been the center of soh for anyone

He’d treated me like the rarest treasure, showered me with all the love and affection my sore bruised heart could take in and shown me a world many can only dream of But in the end the fear that had lived inin s over my very existence like a dark cloud had founddown

I knew that if I didn’t leave and get as far away from him as possible that the toxicity I’d lived withthe almost fairylike perfection of our union I couldn’t have that I’d rather preserve those few months of bliss inelse in my life that had been touched by the hand of darkness

The only thing is, I didn’t know that I was pregnant at the ti my state my first reaction was tearful joy All was not lost I will have a part of him with me for the rest of my life, so back at me

Then came the fear of the unknown What will the monster do? I hadn’taway frohtest part ofto ain I hid myself away I’d learned after this last ti, she’ll always find me

Instead I changed things up at work so that I could work froroceries and takeout delivered and ordered my clothes online But then the inevitable happened My mother the toxic one showed up on my doorstep to see why I’d been shut away frois of her spies

I can still remember the fear and dread I felt when I opened the door to see her standing there And et rid of it, and for the first ti she could do I was of age and lived on my own completely separate from her

She’d pushed back, threatened and everything else she could think of but for once I held firm and refused, which surprised us both no-end I wish I’d have found that same spirit h that I’d found it now though, just in time to save my unborn child