Redemption {Book One}

"Alana," he says flatly.

"I'm leaving Koda, you can't stop me" I start stuffing my clothes into a duffle I found in the closet. Grabbing item after item out of the drawer.

"The hell I can. You. Need. Me! I take care of everything, the bills, food, even the clothes on your damn back!" Koda screams as he grabs the end of my sweater.

I rip it from out of his hand and push him back, "You seem to ALWAYS forget that I was something before you Koda. I had an apartment, I was the head nurse in the ER, and I, sure enough, had more luxuries than I could ever imagine! Not being with you was one of them." I point an accusing finger in his face.

I grab the duffle bag and zip it up. I start towards the bedroom door, as I put my hand on the doorknob he speaks,

"Yeah so many luxuries that you tried to kill yourself, that is how we met right " I still in front of the closet door. My hand once reaching for the knob clings to my chest. I feel the tears swelling in my eyes.

Blinking quickly as the tears fall down my face I turn to face him. I look in his eyes, the eyes I thought that I couldn't live without, the eyes I fell asleep too every night and the eyes I woke up to every morning. So many mornings and so many nights it felt like an eternity.

They were empty, empty of all the empathy and love that was once there and replaced instead by rage. Hot blistering rage and I was burnt and turned into ashes in the seconds we stood there, silent waiting for another to speak.

I looked down to my twiddling fingers, It was a habit since we got married to mess with my rings. And here we were on the brink of our marriage. I took off the rings and looked up at the ceiling to take a deep breath. Then I faced him again and nodded soberly.

"I- I'm taking the kids with me, Koda." With that, I threw the rings at him and left the room.

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