All Chapters of The Man I Was Meant to Hate: Chapter 1 - Chapter 5

Ava's Point Of ViewThe noise of the city awakens me earlier than the sun, honking cars, stepping over me, a baby crying along the hall. Life keeps on, though yours has ended.I am seated at the little wooden desk before my window and about me lie a pile of debris in the form of papers, empty coffee cups, and the faint scent of rain which is gusting through the half-open window. The business card is in the center of the mess as a challenge.“Welcome back, Ava.”I didn’t sleep last night. My eyes shut and I could see him, Liam Hart, standing in the rain and looking at me every time. Or maybe it wasn’t him. Perhaps it was a mere imagination of mine. But that message? It’s real.I look into the mirror. My hair is knotted, my eyes are bloodshot, my skin is pale. I look like a ghost.“Eva Moore,” I say softly. My reflection doesn’t blink.The name tastes awkward in my mouth, seems to be piddly and less fractured. I repeat this once more with greater force, Eva Moore.It makes me smile a li

Ava's Point Of ViewThe rain strikes the glass walls, as fidgety fingers. The room is dim, with the sound of lights below.I spin around, and my heart is racing. “What did you just say?”Liam’s gaze doesn’t waver. His face cannot be read, it is almost placid. He places a folder on his desk and sits up slightly, the stormlight glimpsing his face.“I said Ava,” he murmurs. Since... you resemble somebody I knew.His voice is so uniform as to be almost casual. Almost.He stares a little more and then leaves and picks up the folder once again, flipping its pages without the slightest regard of the dialogue.The air between us tightens. I can’t breathe.My mouth opens, then closes. And the question I wish to know was who that was. I want to ask what he means. However, the words stick in my mouth.He doesn’t look at me again. “You should go home. It’s late.”And so he dies--out of the office, along the hall, the sound of his footsteps disappearing in the storm.I stand alone in the semi-dark