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She’s staying with her father now. She went straight to him that day.
I’ve spoken to him only to assure him that I’ll do my best to make sure Bastian doesn’t put him or Aurora in danger.
William didn’t sound hopeful or like he believed I’d care enough to honor any such promise. I can’t blame him.
I created this mess. It was borne out of my own greed.
I can’t blame Aurora either for not wanting to have anything to do with me.
Even when she finds out I’m not going to sell Sunset Cove.
It will be quite the shock to my grandfather too, who has no inkling of what’s happened between Bastian and me.
I postponed the meeting with Vladimir until next week, but hopefully, before then, I’ll let him know I won’t be selling.
Before the week is out, I’m hoping to have the documentation that will remove my name from the ownership of Sunset Cove. And from Aurora’s life.
I’ve come to the decision that I need to let her go.
She said herself, that she wished she’d never met me.
I wish that too.
What I did to her, and her father for the matter, was truly, truly despicable. And that’s putting it mildly.
When Bastian brought up the past with Giselle and threw the dirt at me, I was more than ashamed of myself. I’m sure even Giselle was ashamed of me.
I hated that Bastian knew what I did during that time. When I told Aurora what happened to Giselle, I purposely left out specific parts that hurt me the most.
At the time I gave Giselle my kidney, I thought I’d found a way to keep her alive. The doctors had said that people with Huntington’s could live for up to twenty years after the start of their symptoms, but she was at the stage where her lupus was making her kidneys fail.
Twenty years was worth it to me, so I gave her a piece of me. But it didn’t work.
All I got was another two years before her body began to reject my kidney, then she deteriorated and was given a year to live.
After that everything was all wrong. Especially me.
I always felt guilty for showing my grief around her because she was in so much pain.
At times, I’ve felt that if I’d put on a braver face, she might not have killed herself. I know that’s not true, but it never stopped me from thinking it.
Now I’ve lost another love, this one different from any other. Even Giselle.
I never thought that could be possible, and my acknowledgment of that doesn’t take anything away from what I had with Giselle.
It’s shown me that true love is a never-ending entity, and you’re more than fortunate to find it once, let alone twice.
Especially for someone like me who came from a broken home.
When I first met Aurora, I might have appeared to be still holding on to Giselle, but I wasn’t. What held me back was seeing something in her that I wanted and was scared to have. I knew if I wanted it I’d have to bare my soul and leave myself as vulnerable as I had in the past.
What I saw in Aurora was happiness and a future that didn’t see me in the dark.
So many things banded together to create the monster in me, but Aurora unraveled each one and released the man inside who just wanted to live.
She was a wild card I never saw coming.
But … in my heart, I know she’s better off without me.
