Triangle Love ( Palletshipping vs Comashipping! 🤍🤎 )

Chapter 17 - Emotions

A/N: hi i'm back with another chapter, this is a lot of a emotional chapter, we are now reaching the climax we've been anticipating (well i haven't 😭) Ash is soon to choose one. . . shsgdg i hope i don't get attacked for the result, i wish he didn't have to pick one. 😭

anyways like always enjoy and thank you all for reading! ❤️ there will also be a question for you to answer at the end. 😊

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~ 3rd Person POV ~
"uh daddy do I continue unwrapping presents??" Ashley blinked as the room went silent as Gary and Paul glared at each other
"yes of course sweetie, daddy is just going to go get another tequila" Gary smiled sarcastically as Daisy held him back from leaving
"you had enough drinking" she mumbled as Gary rolled his eyes and watched as his daughter happily showed off her presents

As Ashley finished up with her presents Gary sighed and sat down at a table alone and just swirled some orange juice in his cup since he wasn't allowed by his sister to drink anymore, while doing that he watched Ash who was with Ashley eating cupcakes they had served
the truth is, as much as he loves Ash the similarities he has to his dead wife made him every single time more creeped out despite having black hair and brown eyes like her, he just has every single detail of her

Gary cannot say he loves Ash because he can basically replace his wife or anything he does love him for him, but still he reminds him a lot of her . . .

"thank you for coming" Gary smiled at Ash as he told him he was leaving
"no, thank you and Ashley for inviting me" Ash smiled lightly
"I'm sorry about the scene I made" Gary sighed
"it's okay, don't worry about it" Ash smiled caressing circles around Gary's cheek
"can you tell Ashley I left for me?" Ash giggled seeing Ashley was asleep on a chair
"yeah I will" Gary grinned glancing at her as well

"well, I better go now, bye and thank you for everything" Ash smiled kissing Gary who smiled
"bye" he said before sharing another kiss with the ravenette and watched him leave

With days passing by Gary sighed getting out of his car, he didn't have Sawyer drive him to where he was going, he just needed to be alone
"hey love, sorry I don't visit you much anymore" Gary sighed looking at his wife's gravestone and put some white Lilly's on her grave and sat down
"I feel guilty" Gary mumbled
"I don't want you to think I want to replace you, because no one will ever do that" Gary sighed
"even though I am madly in love with Ash I still love you, and always will"
"I know I sound like an idiot and I know you would slap me across the face of you were here. but at times I feel like you sent Ash to me in a way to tell me you're still here, I feel like Ash has a part of your soul in him" Gary explained and sighed running his hands though his hair
"yeah I am an idiot"

"I wouldn't be going through this mess if you were still here" Gary sighed
"if you were still here things would've been so much more easier for me. We probably would've had baby number two by now" Gary chuckled
"remember you used to joke around telling me you wanted 10 kids?"
"I remember. I remember clearly" Gary smiled lightly
"I remember your dad lectured me when we found out you were pregnant" he chuckled again
"he really hated me considering you were only 18 and I was 21, also because we weren't even married" Gary grinned at the memory
"i would do anything to just bring you back to life" the auburn mumbled
"to hold you, kiss you, give you a proper goodbye" Gary said with tears welling up in his eyes making him sniffle to make them go away

"why did you have to be token away from me? Did I do something wrong? I wouldn't ever hurt you, you know that right baby?" Gary sniffled and wiped a tear rolling down his cheek and stayed silence for a while before breaking down
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry if I ever did or will hurt you with remarrying if I do" Gary said sobbing