- Final Blow
Despite Aaron’s proposal, the return to the camp wasn’t awkward. Before leaving that beautiful place, I asked him why he wanted to many me. I told him it wasn’t possible that after only a few days of knowing me, he had fallen in love with me. But he just smiled and took my hand
“No, Annie, don’t get confused. I didn’t say loved you. But I think that maybe in the future, we could come to leavery deep feeling. We just have to give ourselves a chance I remained silent at his words. I tried the same thing with Lam and it didn’t work.
‘I don’t know. My experience wasn’t good For a long time tied to make my son’s father realize how felt about him. And during our short counship I did everything possible so that he would notice that he could be very happy with me, but he never considered it. Now it’s not just my hear at stake, but my sons, what if i can’t love you? What it accept you and decide not happy? We would have to separate and I don’t want a divorce to hurt my baby. Do you understand me I saw his facetum serious. He approached me slowly and when he was only a step away I got lost in his green eyes for a moment
“understand everything you’re saying. That’s why I only let you know my intentions. During the time we’re here, give me the opportunity to be close to you. Let me show you that I’m not some obsessive madman who fell in love with you and now wants to possess you No I am a practical person who found a person who fes his ideal, and who may become the great love of his life. Let’s try it. I’m not asking for anything more”
I pulled away from his gasp What he said is valid He didn’t tell me he loved me. And while that manage proposal is strange, it was just a proposal.
“Don’t
think it. Let’s just keep going as we have been: We’ll be ends without benefits, hoping that someday we’ll be something more. Okay?” I don’t know if I’m doing the right thing but I nad. The truth is, I like having him by my side
During the trip, he asked me when I realized I was in love with Lim if he never loved me from what he knows of our relationship.
1 let out a big sigh and began to tell him our story I told him that we had known each other all our lives. That at first he seemed to me like a silly serve and very whiny child And that as we grew up that detailed me with tenderness, and although I didn’t know what it meant to me, my heart beat a little faster when we met, which was olen ollowed by the Manship between our parents, despite living in different cities
He was always one of the most handsome boys I knew, and hated that wherever we went, he acted the attention of the female population, and since I used to introduce mysell as his cousin, all the gitaround him ignored me. Although he was a womanizer, he liked to be admited.
He used to listen to me and please me sometimes reluctantly but for me it was a great victory, when asked him for something and he did it even though he didn’t feel comfortable or didn’t want to. He just wanted me to be happy Or so I thought
dad
The emotions hi awakened in me increased as we grew older, and when I was about to work up the courge to tell him what I was experiencing she appeared.
From the moment she set foot in the house and looked at me I knew that ours was pure enmity, St was very young and I was a teenager, but what saw in her not comespond to the innocence of a get her age. I don’t know what she lived before she came here, but I knew that with her also came problems at least for me.
My big mistake was not giving up on Liam in time. Maybe if I had given up when I realized that his feelings were not the same as mine. I would have saved myself a lot of trouble. But my father raised me to believe that I could achieve anything I set my mind to. That’s why I didn’t give up. I was sure that someday the love of my life would realize that I could make him very happy. But that never happened
Aaron watched me in gence, assimilating my words. Perhaps telling sorry for how pathat I was
“Well, at least you tried. You didn’t stay with the what it‘. You gue your whole heart and put effort into the relationship, so you have nothing to repach yourself for And it’s the same thing I tell you. I don’t want to be left with that would have‘ etter
I smile as hear his words. I thought that if I told him everything that happened, he would repach me for being so foolish, but it’s quite the opposite. He has listened to me and has not judged me
“I just have one question left. Your baby, did you try to get pregnant on purpose?” I open my eyes in surprise. Of course I didnt plan it. Of course I wanted to have children, but not this way, but within an established marriage.
*No, of course not. I know
ecologist and I know all the ways to and pregnancy, but I’m also a woman. The only time we did it without protection was one day after spending the night together, the next day he left me alone. I’m a women too, and because of the sadness i falt that time, I didn’t remember to use a method to preverl pregnancy Actually, it was the last thing on my mind and for the next few days, I just forgot about it. I never thought it would happen to me. But now I know that I wouldn’t do things differently for the world low and long for the baby on the way so much”
Aaron smiles and gives my hand a light squeeze. I look ahead as i watch us move down the road No, I wouldnt do anything differently. I place my hand on my belly, Rom the moment I knew I was expecting this child, I loved him like no one else in the world. He may not have been fathered by his father’s low, but at least on my part he was
When we get to the camp, we get out of the vehicle and Aaron accompanies me to the bedroom. The girls are inside and when I’m in bont of them they throw their ams:
actics.
“Girl, you took so long. We won’t let this Bones kidnap you again all day.” I start laughing at their and
‘Come on, he just invited me to dinner. Besides, you guys leave me alone a lot and I don’t complain. They let out a nervous laugh because they know it’s true.
“Well, well, let’s change the subject. How did it go?” I start telling the everything we did, but just then, my friend decides to leave
“I’m going to get some rest. Tomorrow is Monday and there sure to be a lot of patients” He kisses each of us and we watch him walk away to the door
“Let’s see, tall me, tell me. What else happened? I let out a big sigh and tell them about his proposal. They both remain silent. They don’t mind that someone is interested in me, but they think that before I make a decision. I should talk to Liam about the baby
but it’s so hard for me to meto
“Honey, that baby already has a father. You have to tell him if he decides not to be in his life, at least it wont be on you” I know they’re right, bu accept. Im so afraid that my son will be despised by him and his new wife.
“Martha’s right. I also don’t mind Aaron trying to win you over. But only do it when you feel there might be a chance for you to give him your heart. Otherwise, wall When the time is life will put a new opportunity to love in front of you. Mir hugs me. Do these women know how much love them?
We decided to have a light dinner and then go to bed
I spent the night awake making a decision. So, early in the morning. I pick up my phone and dial Liam’s number. He doesn’t answer and hang up to try again.
24 Finallow
This time I’m lucky I feel like I wont be able to speak, but to my surprise, it’s not my son’s father who answers th
“Hello? Annis? Well, what a miscle you called “I remain silemi, not knowing what to say to her, but before I can answer, the let out a gogle. “Oh, I know why you’re calling. Are you going to congratulate us? We got married last night. It’s a shame you weren’t here for our wedding and to see the ormation with which my now wide said yes. I do
was sublime!
I hang up the call. My eyes wel
clears as i remember the day I left and the shame wer
went through
Could it be true? And as if in answer to my question, an image comes to me. That of his hand with a wedding ring
Then it’s true. They finally got married. What a short time Liam waited to deliver the final blow to the love I feel for himi
