Chapter 58

ELLIE

“I'm sorry, Ellie… I can explain…” he muttered as he shut the door behind him. It was quite savvy of him to shut the place to contain whatever would happen in there.

I had been watching the video clip when Aiden had walked into his room. It was hard for me to understand what exactly it was he wanted to explain to me. All the facts were plain and clear in the clip.

“You have to believe me, Ellie.” He said as I was about to get myself to stand up and walk away from his room. “There's a lot of things that happened that night that led up to me ending up—”

“Oh please, shut it, Aiden…” I let out as I just didn't want to hear one more sentence of those words. It was almost sounding like he was mocking me with it. He seemed to know just how much his actions had hurt me.

But then I couldn't afford him the luxury of knowing just how deeply his actions had hurt me. I would be vulnerable to his every whim if I let that happen to me.

“Ellie… I did this because of you…” Aiden stammered te