Stolen Love by Joyce Lomax Dukes

Author:Joyce Lomax Dukes
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Olmstead Publishing
Published: 2011-04-30T14:00:00+00:00

Charles had left work the same time Ashley did.

He stopped and got some flowers to put on his parents grave.

When he got to the cemetery, he saw Ashley's car. He walked up and saw her at his parent’s grave.

He stood back and he heard what she said to his mother.

When she finished talking, she put her hands over her face and began to cry, telling his mother she was confused, and how she really wanted to see her mother.

Charles walked up to her.

She looked at him and said, “Sorry.”

He helped her to get up. Then he held her in his arms, he broke down and started to cry. “I’m sorry for hurting you, all your pain is my fault.”

“I’ll never hurt you again, I love you.”

He held Ashley tight. All his pain came back from that day when he heard Marley was his daughter.

They walked over to the bench. They sat down trying to comfort each other.

He told Ashley, “Seeing you hurt, brought back the hurt I felt when the social worker said, ‘Go get your daughter.’”

“Those were beautiful words to me, but the way I got my daughter hurt me so badly.”

“I made a mistake when I hurt you, but my daughter will never be a mistake.”

“I will never be sorry she was born.”

Charles looked at Ashley saying. “I know it’s hard for you to forgive me. I was wrong for getting that angry with you, I should have walked away.”

He stood up and said, “Ashley you are safe with me now. You know that don’t you?”

She stood up; they went to put the flowers on the graves. Charles walked her back to her car, then he followed her home.

When they arrived home, they saw Marley riding on the ranch with the kids from another ranch.

Ashley said, “I want to be alone for a while.”

Charles replied, “I don’t want to leave you alone.”

She replied, “I’m okay, just for a little while.”

He told Ashley that he would check on her later. He went into the house.

The housekeeper said, “Dinner is on the stove. Marley did her homework, she’s out riding. I’ll see you in the morning.”

Charles went upstairs to take a shower and change clothes.

He came back downstairs and lay on the couch thinking about Ashley and waiting for her to come in from outside. Charles fell asleep.

It was getting dark, Marley’s friends rode home.

She came into the house and saw her daddy asleep so she went to get a shower.

When she finished her shower, she came downstairs to wake up her daddy.

“I'm ready to eat, Daddy, Do you want me to get mom?”

He said, “No, Baby, she's tired let her sleep. She'll eat later.” So, the two of them had dinner.

After dinner, Marley went to her room.

She was online talking with her Aunt Linda and Uncle Andrew. They told her they will be up next month for her birthday.

She talked with them for a while and got on the phone with a friend from school. Charles cleaned up the dinner dishes and lay back down on the couch.

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