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“Do what your heart tells you. Whatever that is will be the right thing to do.”
She bows her head with reverence and takes her leave.
She walks out of the room, but her words stick in my mind.
Do what my heart tells me…
My heart has been screaming at me. It’s so loud it’s deafening.
I already know what it wants me to do.
The question is, can I do it?
Can I move past the fear in my soul and do what my heart needs me to do?
I wish I could.
Chapter Forty-Seven
Ava
“You must be so happy. It’s such a massive accomplishment, Ava,” Holly bubbles.
She throws herself down on the sofa and grabs a handful of sweets from the bowl I’ve set on the table.
“It was fantastic.”
“That’s the word I’d describe for the issue. The way you wrote the article was just fantastic. I bet you get a Reader’s Choice Award for it or something.” She laughs.
I smile. Such a thing would be nice.
I got back last night and spent the day unpacking and resting. Thinking.
I’m smiling like I have been for the last three months I’ve been in Florida, but I’m still thinking about him. Vincent.
I don’t know how I’m supposed to forget him. I don’t know how I’m supposed to fall so hard for a man like him and then just un-love him. I was with him in a very unconventional taboo relationship for a handful of weeks, and I know I’ll never feel the way I did about him with anyone else.
“Ava… you okay?” Holly asks, waving her hand in front of my face. “You’re miles away.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Mind still in Florida?”
“Not so much. I loved being out there, but I’m happy to be back. I… want to organize a memorial for my father.”
Her face falls and fills with sadness. There was so much to sort out after I left, so much I had to leave behind. Once the police did what they needed to in the little that remained of Dad’s apartment, I hired someone to salvage what they could from the remains. They didn’t find much, just random things here and there. They’re things I can remember him by though.
“Oh God,” Holly winces. “I’m sorry. It was bad of me to forget. I mean… I didn’t forget. I did remember. I was just excited about Florida.”
“I know, and I didn’t think badly of you.”
“What’s going to happen?”
“I’ll organize a small memorial and invite a few people who knew him. Then I guess that will be it.”
“Ava, I’m so sorry. I’m still in shock.”
She thinks it was an explosion. Nobody knows the truth. No one but Vincent and his family knows the horror of what I went through that day when I found Dad dead. Killed with a message for me.
