Sebastian, old friend
I don't think I have met a man as dumb witted as you. You found a woman who was smitten with you, who was ready to have something special with you and you left her. I can't fathom what went through your mind when you chose to leave to find Anne but I know it had nothing to do with love.
You haven't bothered to write, even an owl to say you were alive and well would have sufficed. Yet here I am picking up the mess you left behind. Did you ever think of how you leaving would affect Echo? Actually don't answer that because that answer would have been a no. You didn't think of her for a minute before leaving her. Do you even realize what you left her with? Aside from the emotional trauma of the one you love leaving after such an intimate night, you left her with child. Yours if you're still so dumb witted as to ask who's it belonged to.
I don't believe this letter will ever find you, nor do I expect you to come home after reading it even if it does. But I want to let you know that I'm stepping up. That baby will have someone to love them as well as their mother and it won't be the father Echo hopped for.
You're one sorry lot, Sebastian. Out of all the things you have done within the last year, this is your lowest.
If you ever come back, I pray that Echo doesn't love you anymore. I pray she finds someone who will love her no matter the circumstance. And I pray she and that baby find a real man that will take care of them the way you should have.
You're oldest friend,
Ominis Gaunt
Ominis, my friend
I know I will never send this letter to you, but I thank you for writing to me. I know I am a fool for leaving Echo behind. I should have stayed with her and to find out that she is pregnant with my child, I can only hope I find Anne fast enough to come home to them both.
Like you said, they need a better man to care for them and I push myself to become a better person each day. I have something worth changing for now. I have a life after Anne and I want to become a better man for my family. I just pray that Echo can forgive me for leaving.
Again I know I will never send this letter to you, but keep them safe for me.
Sebastian Sallow
Sebastian, old friend
Your son born on Halloween is dead.
He was stillborn, and though I don't expect you to read this letter I still write to you in hopes you will see what has come of the woman you left behind. She and I are romantically involved now and I would have taken over your role as your son's father had it come to that.
His name was Christopher, Christopher Sallow, and she buried part of his ashes next to your uncle. She had lied to us for months and told us that she had given him up to a loving family. We had no idea the pain she went through until it was too late to help her and I curse you everyday for not being there for her.
She deserves so much more than you, but I know she still loves you. Sometimes I believe she loves you more than she could ever love me. You are one lucky bastard, Sallow, to get a girl as stubbornly strong as she is.
You're oldest friend,
Ominis Gaunt
Sabastian's P.O.V.
I stood before the fireplace, burning each letter.
Today was my son's birthday and I had never got to meet him, never got to hold him in my arms and kiss his mother for blessing me with a beautiful family. I know at sixteen I wouldn't have been ready to be a father but eighteen year old me now hates myself for missing what could have been.
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In the Shadows of Romance/Sebastian Sallow x MC
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