My Roommate

Chapter 52

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Ashley's POV—

I glance over towards the doors leading out of the room and notice Evan quickly walking out. Several people turn their heads to look at her before they give me and Eli their attention again.

A million different thoughts have been running through my head since last night.

Since Evan popped up at my house and told me not to marry Eli.

Telling me that 1. Her relationship with Nia Brooks isn't even real in the first place.

And 2. That she's still in love with me.

Hearing that only made things even more conflicting.

It all caught me off guard.

I wasn't expecting to see her again for the first time in years a couple days ago—still finding her insanely attractive.

I wasn't expecting her to show up last night.

I wasn't expecting her to tell me that she's still in love with me.

"I do," Eli says as he gives my hands a firm squeeze, grabbing my attention from my thoughts.

It'll hurt him if I decide to not go through with this.

But ever since last night, I haven't been able to stop thinking about Evan. Thinking about everything that we've been through together.

She helped me overcome things I didn't think I could overcome.

She held my hand through the worst—defending me when things were a mess.

She went at my pace, never forcing me to do anything.

She was literally my first for a lot of things.

But she still chose music over me in the end.

And if I were to turn Eli down, and go back to Evan, what's to say the same thing isn't going to repeat?

Her career has been very successful.

That kind of success requires a lot of dedication. A lot of time in the studio, going on tours for months at a time, doing other things for publicity purposes or whatever—overall just working day and night to meet every single demand.

And my future is here in Michigan, that much I know for sure.

I want to continue working with Diane and working my way up the ranks.

I'd have to stay here in Michigan.

I mean I guess I could go with her to California, but I would have to start all over at a new media company—which isn't something I necessarily want to do.

"And do you, Ashley Joelle Daniels, take Elijah Harrison to be your husband? To live together in the covenant of marriage..." The officiant starts, now speaking to me.

My heart beats dangerously against my chest—it's been doing that the second I walked down the aisle.

I shouldn't have let the ceremony start—since I'm having such conflicting thoughts.

Because if I were to walk away from Eli now...

He doesn't deserve that.

But...

I can't deny it.

I do still wish that I could be with Evan.

I've been wanting that all these years.