Blurry is the Line Between Love and Lust: A Tears of Shame Novel [EDITING]

Epilogue

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Here is the Epilogue folks :) It is the last installment of the story :(

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Epilogue

Xavier POV

Pain washed over me as it had every time I stood, teary eyed, before the marked grave. I gripped the letter tightly in my hand. It was one of the only things I had left of her. I hadn’t wanted to have disobeyed Aria’s last wishes by refraining from giving her letter to Lia, yet I feared the pain that would have followed if I had turned it over to her.

Would it have upset her? Would it have surfaced painful thoughts of living a life without a mother? Ronan and I had done the best we could have, but still I feared that the loss of her mother was too great an adversity for us to have overcome. I couldn’t have handled hurting her like that. But this was what Aria wanted, so how could I have refused it? I couldn’t have.

I knelt down before the stone and lovingly caressed the inscription.

Arianna Evangeline Cardonis

Beloved Wife, Mother and Future Queen

The Greatest Gift God Ever Bestowed on this Earth

It had been so long since I had seen her perfect face, felt the warm of her skin next to mine, and the tingle of her soft lips as they moved with mine. I missed her desperately, every minute of every day. I lived a mournful life, if that was what you called it. It was more of a dull, lifeless existence with the only bright spot, being Lia.

I wished it had been different, that Aria had decided sooner to let us save her. But somehow, it seemed that her destiny was set. No matter what happened, there was no way to have changed fate. I would have lost her no matter what. That was the most painful thought of all.

This hadn’t helped my suffering, it only made it worse. If I had known in the beginning how things would have turned out, I still wouldn’t have changed a thing. If I had, I would never have had the extraordinary pleasure of meeting my beautiful daughter, Lianna.