An Innocent Wife (Innocent Hearts Book 1) by Richa Resa

Author:Richa Resa [Resa, Richa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Eunice

“Joshua,” I whispered. He was here, in this room that we shared. A room he’d walked out of. He was back here. Tears streamed from my eyes. He was back…but was he? He was back, but now I was lost. He had found his way home but I was gone—dead on the inside. Was this a game where he found himself and I lost myself? What was this about? Why did my heart feel like a heavy burden? It sought the happiness that was once there. My heart craved our happy past after so long and I couldn’t find it without being here.

I asked Alex for the key this evening—more like pleaded him for it. I wanted to be back here with those two bands on my fingers. All day I tried to keep myself away from those memories. I tried hard to stay focused on work, to stay focused in the present and not dwell in the past. Clarisse and Nora stayed with me too long, but they had to go eventually. They had their own things to do and I couldn’t keep them. My heart and those rings made me come here. They made me. The two bands made me itch with the realization that I needed to be here just for today. I wanted to once again feel myself alive—even if it was just in memory. I hated this desperation. I hated it, but coming here in this room, in this house, I felt alive. Everywhere I looked, a happy memory flashed, and I didn’t regret coming here.

For tonight I was home.

“You’re here,” he said, his voice barely audible. Down on his knees, he was crying with me. I looked at the shiny band sitting on his finger and something broke in me. I didn’t know what, but something broke and I burst out in sobs, deep sobs that affected my whole body. I let my hands hold my head while I cried the world out. He was wearing it. He had found himself back home, back to where his heart was but I was still lost. I was gone while he was back. I felt his rough hands pry my hands from my face.

“Please don’t. Please don’t,” he whispered hoarsely. “Don’t, please don’t cry because of me. Don’t, Eunice,” he begged. Tears cascaded down both of our faces. His green eyes were no longer cold. They were filled with love, guilt, and regret, the one emotion I had begged God to let me see once again. What a twisted fate had God written for us. I got what I wanted, but only when I was broken, broken too deep inside; his actions of the past left scars deep inside of me. I was the wife who couldn’t keep her husband happy, a wife who didn’t know how to satisfy her husband, who didn’t know what family was. But biggest of all, I was the person who didn’t know how to keep secrets behind closed doors.

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