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Isla is mine.
However, I can never claim her.
For being mine is a curse.
And no one deserves it.
Especially not a woman who lost everything because of me.
This time around, I cannot allow it.
This time around, I’ll save her.
Even if it kills me.
CHAPTER NINE
“In our past, we can find the source of our deepest pain.
Because our past holds all the memories together, shaping us into someone who we are today.
Sometimes, though, we can't find answers no matter how much we try.
Because the answers lie in the past, yes.
Just not in ours.”
Isla
From Isla’s mother’s diaries…
We’ve committed a horrible sin.
My heart still beats wildly in my chest as I write my confession in my secret diary, and tears drop on the paper, smearing the ink, not that it stops me.
How can I stop if this eats at my soul and creates a hideous picture in my head where the whole world knows the truth about what I’ve done?
My husband says we did the right thing. He says we had no other choice.
I know better, though.
We had other choices, but we chose this one in order to get what we always wanted.
And me writing about it…it’s an atonement in a way to tell our truth, to maybe show to everyone we weren’t monsters should anyone discover it.
We were just desperate people who took the opportunity, even if it meant destroying someone’s life in the process.
John and I…we’ve been together since we were fifteen. Countless years filled with joy, pain, and happiness as our relationship withstood all the storms.
There was one storm we couldn’t overcome, though…and that’s our inability to have children. We tried everything.
Nothing helped, and waiting on the adoption list year after year brought no results. Slowly, our house, where love ruled, became a soulless space where only disappointment and crushed dreams remained.
On our last hope to save our marriage, we booked a trip near the ocean, ready to unwind and finally face all the issues head-on instead of running away from them.
We had fun and even accepted that it might be just the two of us.
And then we did the unthinkable.
