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Torn between regret and fear
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RIGHTFULLY MINE Torn between regret and fear
ZOE'S POV “What the hell? Owen?” I heard her say in a stunned whisper. But she wasn’t looking at him. Her sharp, wild and vengeful eyes were trained on me.One second I was still breathless from the tenderness of Owen’s kiss and the next, I was frozen with my eyes locked with a glare that could shatter glass."I knew it" Alexis spoke with venom. "It wasn’t just my stupid suspicion. I saw it. It’s you. You’re the reason he won’t even look at me twice!"Owen tried to speak but Alexis wasn’t listening."You little parasite," Alexis hissed, advancing a step. "First at his house like some stray he picked off the street, now in his office. You just love crawling into your bosses’ beds, don’t you? That’s what you do, right? Sleep your way up and act all innocent?"My mouth dropped open. My chest tightened. “What… what did you just say?”Owen stepped forward sharply. “That’s enough, Alexis.”But my mind reeled. My past—those words shouldn’t be in this woman’s mouth. No one should know about
RIGHTFULLY MINE The Calm before she walked in
OWEN'S POV I could not take it anymore. ‘I might regret it if I don't make a move now and it becomes too late.’ I thought to myself. I had tried to give her space. I’ve tried to be patient. I had told myself that maybe if I stayed quiet long enough and let things cool down Zoe would come back around. But now watching her drift further from me like I was a stranger again after all we had been through, it was unbearable.My chest still felt tight from the moment she walked out of my house with her bags and our goodbye felt forced. Like I hadn’t held her hands in mine just nights before. Like I didn’t care.But I did. More than she knew.I stood up from my desk ignoring the stack of documents I was supposed to go over. I started walking before I realised it. I walked straight to her office without pausing. Without thinking about whether it was smart or not.I couldn’t take the silence anymore.When I walked in she looked up from her desk. She was shocked at first—her brows went up but
RIGHTFULLY MINE Every item felt like a reminder
ZOE’S POV I couldn’t think straight. The image of the woman—Alexis—still lingered heavily in my mind. The way she smiled and yelled “Surprise!” like she belonged at Owen’s doorstep. The way she had confidently pushed past me calling his name like it was hers to say. The way he had looked at her shocked, tense but not entirely unfamiliar.He said nothing had been between them for two years. That he hadn’t spoken to her, hadn’t seen her. But if that were true, how did she know where he lived? And not just that—how did she know where we worked?Who just shows up like that out of nowhere?I was beginning to see how much I truly didn’t know about Owen. I couldn’t ignore it anymore. He was kind, protective, thoughtful, yes—but guarded. So much about him was unknown. He never talked about his family, his past not even about his scars.And now an ex-fiancée I had never even heard of suddenly walking into the picture like she never left. My stomach twisted.If they were really over, why did s
RIGHTFULLY MINE There it was. The poison
OWEN'S POV I stood in my office, glaring at Alexis as she leaned on my desk.She smirked at me. “I came back for us Owen. And you are not pushing me away this time. No matter what you say or do.”A bitter chuckle escaped me. “You're joking right? There’s no us Alexis. There hasn’t been for over two years. Did you forget that?”She blinked at me the smile faltering. “You can’t just toss aside what we had like it meant nothing.”“I didn’t do that. You did” I snapped. “I don’t want to have anything to do with you. Not now, not ever.”Her lips tightened. “Is this because of what happened back then? Is that what this is still about?” She crossed her arms, trying to sound calm, reasonable even. “That’s not me anymore, Owen. I went to therapy. I’ve grown. You don’t know the work I’ve done to heal and—”“Heal?” I cut her off. “You think you were the victim?”“That's not what I said.”“You didn’t have to.” I said, loosing my cool. “Did you ever get punished for what you did Alexis?”She hesit
RIGHTFULLY MINE A blast from my past.
OWEN'S POV “You want to move out?” I asked, in surprise. I stared at her in shock. She just calmly organized her papers as if it was nothing. I stepped closer and blurted out the question. “Is it about the woman from this morning?”Zoe paused. Her expression unreadable. I was hoping she'd say no. That it was purely accidental. That she didn’t care.But then she said quietly, “It’s not because of her.”I breathed out, still tense. Her tone seemed off.“I had decided that before this morning” she added causally. I wanted to believe her. I wanted to trust that she’d meant to move out before the sight of Alexis turning up uninvited and barging into my life like she had the right.But I couldn’t let it hang there. I owed Zoe the truth.“She doesn’t mean anything to me anymore” I spoke firmly. “Her name is Alexis. We were engaged… a long time ago. Two years now, maybe more. I ended it. Nothing since then.”Zoe looked surprised. “She was your fiancée?”I nodded once. “Yes. But it was o
RIGHTFULLY MINE Who was she?
ZOE'S POV Morning light came in through the curtains. I sat on the couch holding a mug of cold coffee that I hadn’t sipped in minutes. A heavy feeling in my chest.The conversation we had with Jamie last night kept replaying in my mind.“Why can’t we just live together? All three of us?”He said it like it was nothing. And maybe it was for a child his age. He just wanted his parents. He didn’t understand complexities. Emotions. History. Regret.He didn’t understand that love or the absence of it—wasn’t something you could fake for long.I sighed and rubbed my head. That question had stuck with me and I hadn’t been able to sleep. Austin and I had looked at each other stunned and guilt-ridden. Jamie had looked between us like he was asking for something easy but it felt like he was asking me to tear myself in two.And the worst part?I didn’t have an answer.I couldn’t give him what he wanted. Not without losing myself in the process.Because as much as Austin and I were trying to do r
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