Always been You (completed)

"Thou shall not covet thy mother's...LOVER"

Hard headed, strong willed, and stubborn as mule. Those were the adjectives use to her by her mother. Aspen Palacio thought her mom's perception of her were all untrue. After all, she will never understand her for she grew up living with her dad. Her father was the only one who truly understands her, because just like him? She is an artist. Not an architect wannabe, just like her mother wanted her to be. And as long as she lives under her roof? She obeys her rules. And in the eyes of her mother, she is a difficult, twenty-one- year -old girl. But she thought, she wasn't. Not until she met her mother's lover, Ocean Whitman.
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Ocean Whitman wanted to know the "hard-headed" daughter of his girlfriend. He thought that she was just a misunderstood young girl, trying to move-on from the grief of losing her father. But getting to know Aspen doesn't mean getting close. Too close. That he saw himself waking up naked and lying next to her. And to make matters worse, he got Aspen pregnant. He will claim responsibility and be the father of their child and be a boyfriend of Aspen, but that doesn't mean that he will marry and love her. He could never love someone who baby trapped him. Or couldn't he? Will he never love her? When maybe, all this time, inside his heart, it has always been her.

Completed May 1, 2022