Chapter 32- You are mine

Ethan's POV

Love. That was something I was not too familiar with. I was born to parents that for some reason, they didn't like me. I suffered series of abuses as a child. I was beaten, cursed, bruised and broken, until I couldn't take it anymore and I had to leave my home as an eight year old. I didn't know where I was going or what I would do, but I just wanted to get away from the place I had known to be home all my life, but it never felt like one.

For a few days, I suffered starvation, loneliness and illness, until Myles found me. He thought me his ways, and I was grateful to learn it. Until I was twelve, that was the closest I had ever felt to love.

And then, my mom, Liliana Howells, took sight of me. She decided to adopt me despite my father's disapproval. Then she showed it to me, how it felt to be cared for, to be truly protected, but even then, I still felt like I was not enough. Then I learnt that she had lost her son before she adopted me, and I knew that I was only a repla