Shattered Dreams by Rebecca Barber

Author:Rebecca Barber [Barber, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-10T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

MAGGIE

My head was spinning. Surely what I thought I was hearing, I wasn’t, because if I was, I was more than a little confused. I was fucking stunned. This was a complete backflip.

“What?”

“I want you to stay.”

“Why?”

I could tell he wasn’t expecting my response. I wasn’t expecting my response. For as long as we’d been together, I’d been the pushover who made sure I gave Drew everything he could possibly ever want. Time and time again I’d sacrificed my own happiness and gone without to give him everything. And in the end, I’d been left with nothing. At least that’s what it felt like.

“What do you mean why?”

Dropping my bag on the floor, it landed with a thud. It was bloody heavy. I could barely remember what I’d stuffed in there, all I knew was it had been pinching my shoulder and I’d barely carried it ten metres. Running my hand through my hair, I heaved out a sigh.

“Because I don’t want you to go. Because you belong here. With me.”

“Drew, you’re doing my head in here.”

“I know. And I don’t mean to.”

“I know you don’t. But you need to figure out what the hell you want. Because what you’re doing here, right now, it’s not fair. It’s not fair on me and it’s not fair on you. Two weeks ago, you were asking me for a divorce and now, now you’re almost begging me to stay.”

“There’s no almost about it, Mags. I am begging you to stay.”

Dropping his head, Drew buried his hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels. When he looked up again, I almost caved. The sadness in his eyes wasn’t something I’d seen in a long time. Not since his grandmother had passed away a few years earlier.

“I know what I said and I’m sorry. I should never have asked for that. It’s not what I want. It’s not what I’ve ever wanted.”

“Then why’d you do it?”

“I don’t know.”

“So where do you see us going from here?”

Drew looked tongue tied. He might know what he wanted but it was obvious that he didn’t have the foggiest idea how to even start unravelling this mess we’d somehow gotten ourselves tangled in.

“I… I…”

“Look, I’m going to go. If we’ve got any chance, then we need some space and time to find our way again. I don’t think us living together, being under the same roof, is going to help. We need to figure out if we both want this. Then and only then can we start to find our way back.”

I think Drew was relieved I offered a solution. Anything to take the pressure off was welcomed at this point. I watched as his shoulders slumped and all the fight and tension evaporated from his body. Seeing him deflate was gut wrenching. We might be a mess at the moment and I had no idea what our future looked like, but I still didn’t want to see him hurting.

Bending down, I scooped up my bag again and headed for the door.

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