The tale of four best friends: Broken Souls ( Book 2):

Chapter 22

Jared pov

As soon as I enter the door, a glass flew and hit the wall beside me.

"Fuck you!" She shouted as another glass flew and hit the wall

"Babe-"

"Dont babe me Jared, where were you?" She cried

"I was-"

"Are you cheating on me?"

"No babe, I will never do that" I replied "I was at the hospital"

"What? Are you sick?" Her voice became soft all of a sudden "Jared, are you okay" she walked to me and start inspecting my body

"I'm okay, but someone else wasn't"

"Who? Grandpa? Or one of your friends?"

"They are all fine. It's..um..it's Amara" I stuttered

She stayed quiet for a while before looking at me with alot of anger

"You couldn't go to buy me a ring, that was fine. I put all this effort, I cooked, dress up, put make up on, a nice perfume. I set a romantic dinner for us, and where were you?" She asked getting closer and closer to me "you said where were you Jared" she shouted

"She is very sick Allysa"

"And who are you to help her? I did all this for us, and you spend the day with people who couldn't care less about me?"

"Babe, I thought we said that we will start a fresh, I just want you to be happy my love"

"Happy? By digging about my past?"

"Amara is far from your past Allysa. She did nothing wrong" I shouted

"She is Broody's child and Ezekiel sister, and that is wrong" she shouted back

"And she is your sister too. Baby she was dying"

"So, how is that my business? When her father beat me up, I was left to die too and no one cared. So why should I care?"

I shook my head in dissapointment "You know what? I fell in love with a woman who is forgiving and always put others first, but this" I pointed at her "this woman, I don't know who she is"

"And you know the ones who abandoned me?" She asked

"Your mom is regretting whatever she did and Amara was just a child at that time, she wouldn't help you even if she wanted to"

"You know nothing about them, she regrets nothing"

"She was hurt Allysa as much as you were hurt. Her husband did that to you for goodness sake or maybe she was ashamed"

"Ashamed? And yet she chose to stay with him and kick me out?"

"Maybe you would have told her sooner all this wouldn't have happened" I said

"And maybe you would have told your dad sooner, Molly wouldn't have died" she clap back

Okay, that hurts. I was loss for words.

"Why? Did I hit a nerve?" She asked

I had no words in my mouth. I was speechless cause it's true, she did hit a nerve.

"The reason why you couldn't tell your father are the same why I couldn't tell my mother, so Jared, don't act like you're a Saint and mind your fucking business" she said before walking upstairs.

I sighed deeply. What have just happened? Well, I didn't expect her to be happy but also I didn't expect her to be this angry.

I thought maybe I would have talked her out of it and she would understand. I didn't expect all this.

I guess, I underestimated the level of her anger.

I looked at the perfect set up on the table and felt a little sad about it. She did put much effort into this. But, can you blame me? I was saving her sister's life for goodness sake.

I went upstairs to our bedroom and find her laying on the bed, still full clothed. She gave me her back but I could hear her sobs clearly.

I walked to my closet and take a set of my pj's then went back to bed. I pulled of her heels and then unzip her dress. She wipe her face violently before turning to look at me.

"I understand that you're mad at me but atleast wear something comfortable before you sleep" I said pulling her on a sitting position so I can easily pull her dress up

She didn't resist. She stayed quiet as I change her clothes and then I went downstairs to put all the food in the refrigerator and warm up a glass of milk.

When I get back in the bedroom, she was laying on the bed but I knew that she wasn't sleeping.

"Baby, have this" I said softly holding a glass of milk. She sit up and take it from my hands then start to drink slowly while I sit beside her.

We stayed there silently while she take small sip from her milk wiping her face from time to time.

"I love you" I started "and it's the love that I feel for you that made me do what I did, and I'm sorry. If thinking about your happiness is wrong, I'm sorry. If wanting you to have a clear start without holding grudges is wrong, I'm sorry. If saving a life is wrong, I'm sorry. But baby, I will tell you now that I don't regret what I did" I paused trying to hold back the tears that threatened to spill

"I don't regret because, I will never ever allow another person to die on my watch. Baby, if I was given a second chance back then I would make everything better, I would tell my dad and maybe someone wouldn't have to die" Now tears were coming down on their own "I know they have abandoned us but I miss him, I miss him so much Allysa. I wish he could come back in my life and forget everything but that can't happen. I killed his wife" I sniffed "but for you, it's different. You killed no one and their here now, you can choose to forgive them and everything will be better"

Allysa put the glass on the table and put her hand on mine

"I'm sorry" she said "I'm so sorry Jared. I didn't mean to-"

"I know" I said shortly "I'm tired, let's sleep we need to go to the office tomorrow" I said standing up and then went to my side of the bed laying down giving her my back.

Her sobs got wildly loud while I didn't make a sound but tears weren't stop coming.

Can we really heal when our wounds are this deep?

Tbc.

🥺 Healing takes time.

See you on Friday. Enjoy 🥰