Not So Easy Novels & Stories

Fuck at this point I don’t even know. “tsk tsk Ella, you won’t be able to get away that easily,” I say through gritted teeth.

It's so easy to get it! Is this just a dream?

Not even close. ---

It's not gonna be easy. Yours sincerely."

Not now. Not this soon.

Hard. The world, apparently, had decided to move ahead of us.

My obsession with family - I had to let it go, too. Why was it so hard for me to have a stable life when I tried so hard? Maybe it was wrong from the start. I shouldn't have met Levi. I shouldn't have agreed to give it a try with Mr. Aiden Morgan when someone else already lived in Levi's heart. I shouldn't have believed the myth that a man would settle down once there's a child. Crash! The glass shattered on the floor. I froze, my arm suspended in mid-air, as if such crude behavior was something I'd never do. That feeling of trying to please others, wanting them to understand me, swept through my entire body.

It's not that big deal tho. ***

I tore the letter to pieces and threw it into a burning fireplace along with the document. "It's nothing. Just some trash," I replied. I turned and kissed his lips. The church bells rang in the distance as sunlight streamed through the windowpane onto us. Lucian returned my kiss tenderly. When I pulled away, I said with a smile, "You kiss so well. I love it." He chuckled and ruffled my hair. "Is my wife really this easy to please?" I really was easy to please. But only because I loved him.