Sawyer
Something changes in a Mother when her child is taken away from her. Nothing in the world feels more important than getting them back, and hurting the person who took them in the first place.
So when my Father looks at me from across the table as I give Clayton a seething ring, a part of me wants to go completely wild. Destroy the place, throw things at him, hit him a couple times, anything to take this anger out of my veins.
"Advert your gaze." I snap, nodding my chin up at him to take the loss. So he narrows his gaze at his other child at the table who has done him wrong. Linden flips open his knife and then closes it after, only to open it again with intimidating, non-breakable eye contact with our Father.
"How did you get out?" Ryder stresses, the bags under his eyes already forming.
"I have my ways." my father responded, "I also have reasons." he swallows but holds up his hand so he can have a moment to gather himself. "We wanted to come say goodbye." he looks up at me again but this time I don't tell him to look away. I stare at him, right down to his thoughts, his love, his own feelings just so I can, for a mere moment, see if he is being honest and sincere.
"you have a weird way of doing so." Linden gives him a face.
"Sawyer." Luca speaks softly, "I am so sorry, and I know that doesn't mean much but I just wanted to let you know before we take our leave."
"we are all very sorry baby." my Father reaches across the table and squeezes my hand only momentarily. He kept it short and sweet, just long enough I felt his sincereness but not too long where I felt uncomfortable.
"mama?" Beau's voice comes from the doorway.
"come here honey." I encourage and when he gets close enough Ryder picks him up and sets him down on his lap.
My Father gazes down at him like he used to me, I know that look of love, but I also know that look of love can be used in so many wrong ways. "I appreciate your apology." I state, "now, I would like to live my life, and without you in it." I stand with my baby in my arms and extend my hand for my other baby to take. Beau takes it and we walk out of the kitchen and up the stairs. And that was the last time I thought I would ever see my Father again.
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The Runaway
RomanceAfter 16 years of being locked away in a lonely household, Sawyer takes a leap against her family and runs away. She even runs away with her new baby daddy Ryder. The Chekhov family is in ruins after finding out the princess has run away. Not o...
