Granting One Last Wish novel Chapter 31

ABBY

"I've been waiting for you all these years to grow up into a woman. I've been watching you all the time, wherever you go, whatever you do. I scared them away, but you let that motherfucker fuck you."

He slaps me on my face, and it stings like hell. I can even feel his handmarks on my face. "You shouldn't have let him touch you. You are mine first, Mackenzie. I have waited for you to grow up enough so that I can fuck you. I can fuck you better than him, you bitch." His voice is hoarse like he has broken voicebox. He has foul breathing as if he's been drinking.

I can't still see his face, even his eyes. It's dark--pitch black.

I jolt awake when I hear a loud bang on my door. 

"Abby, please open the door. Open up." Sebastian yells from the outside.

I might have fallen asleep. My eyelids are heavy, and my eyes still sting. My head is going to explode. I just have the worst headache I ever had.

"Baby, just let me know that you're okay. I promise I'll leave as soon as I hear your voice." I feel the uneasiness inside me when I hear him say he'll leave. I don't want him to go. I'm not ready to let him go. "Baby, just--" He stops. "I love you. I mean it every word I said. I love you, Abbygail. You don't have to believe me in everything. Just this one."

I sit on my bed, grab my blanket to cover my knees before I start crying. He's leaving. Sebastian is leaving me. Now I feel how he felt when I left him.

But I'm still hurt that all the men I trusted most, they all lied and betrayed me. 

My dad kept something from me. He let Andrew work with him behind my back. Did mom know it too? Of course, Dad shared everything to her, well except for the will. Why can't Sebastian do the same thing to me?

Then my best friend for three years is working with my dad. He didn't even try telling me and being a stupid as I am, I didn't even have suspected anything.

"Abby, we're leaving. Can I at least see you before I go?" Trix knocks the door this time. 

"I don't wanna talk. I wanna be alone. Please just leave. Don't make it hard for me, Trixie." My voice is raspy. I pull some tissue on my nightstand and blow my nose. 

"Abby, I just want to hug you one last time before I leave. I'm gonna miss you, you know. I never had a real girlfriend." I think of opening the door for her, but if I see Sebastian, I might not let them go. 

"Go away. I don't like having friends with anyone who will betray me again. Just leave, Trixie." It breaks me because I like her and she has nothing to do with this. She just got in the middle of this chaos. 

I get up from my bed and unlock the deadbolt. I take a deep breath before I half-open the door, then Trix peeks her head from the outside. I hide behind the door. When I let her in, she hugs me before I can pull myself together.

"You look like shit. Oops." She's combing my hair with her fingers and tucks some hair behind my ear.

"I know. It just, it hurts to know the people I trusted have been lying to me." I say as I play with my hands on my knees.

"They did it to protect you. If they didn't do it, then they never cared. You're very lucky, Abby. Those guys are willing to risk their lives for you. They may have lied, but it's because they want you to have a normal life." She wipes my tears from my face. 

"Two years ago, I dated a man. He was good and sweet. He never cheated, not that I know of. After a year of dating, we lived together in my apartment. Then he suddenly changed when he was fired from his work. He applied for jobs, but he never got the luck, and he never asked me for a favor. You know this man's ego. So I asked Seb if he could help Cole. Of course, he helped him because I'm so worried when he came home drunk every night. He stopped drinking when he got the job. Then he found out that I asked Seb to get him his job. When everyone was drunk, Paul blurted out that he should thank Seb for his job. That was the engagement party of our friends. He punched Paul on the face, then he came to me and slapped me in front of girls and said that I'm a bitch and a lousy lay, and he's been sleeping with other women. He grabbed my hair, yanked me, and threw me to the floor." I am even shocked to react, and her tears keep streaming from her eyes.

"Seb came rushing when everyone was yelling. Seb was the only one who wasn't drunk. He never got himself drunk. He grabbed him by his shirt and punched him on his face until he bleeds. Cole was able to grab a shard of broken glass and slit Seb on his eyebrow. Seb punched him again, choked Cole, and said, if you ever fucking touch my girl again, I will fucking kill you. No one ever fucking touch these girls. They are my family, and I will fucking protect them with my life. A lot of fucking, huh?" She smiles.

"Thank you for sharing that with me. You're a good woman, Trix, and you don't deserve to be treated like that." I catch her hand and squeeze it. 

"Whatever happened to you in the past, I don't wanna know, but I'm here if you need anything. You can always call me, and Seb doesn't have to know. This is our girl's moment. You don't deserve this too, but sometimes you have to take risks to keep the one you love most safe." She kisses my forehead and rises from the bed.

"He loves you so much, and he means it, Abby. He's devastated, too." She then closes the door behind her and leaves me alone.

Someone opens the door slowly, and when I look up, my heart crushes inside. Trixie is right, he looks devastated. 

"I don't wanna talk to you right now and never. You can leave now that you know I'm fine. I will ask my lawyer to file the divorce paper. I don't need anything from you or Mom. Get out, and goodbye, Seb." I know he doesn't like me calling him Seb, but he deserves it.

"Abby, we're hurt with what is going on. I'm leaving and give you sometimes to clear up your head. We can't talk like this when we're emotionally unstable. I'll give you some time."

I look down at my trembling hands. "I'm done. Go home." I stand up and open my closet where I hang all his clothes. I take all of them and put them all in my bed. I open the drawer where I kept his boxers and shirts. Then I get his traveling bag and put all his things inside and zip it closed and place it on the floor.

He just looks at the bag and says nothing while clenching his jaw, his lips are pressing in a thin line. He squeezes his eyes shut, takes a deep breath before he grabs the bag on the floor.

I look away because I can't take it seeing him leaving me without a guarantee that I'm going to see him again.

He's going to leave, and he doesn't even say a word. I think I'm dying because it hurts like hell. I hear footsteps and door closing. I slump down the floor and hug myself as I welcome my agony.

I burst into cry until I can't breathe. I never cried like this before, even when my mom died. I love my mother so much, but it never hurts like this. I never thought that I'm capable of loving someone so much that destroys me, that it will end me. I never thought that seeing him leaving hurts more than finding out their betrayals. I go back to bed and sleep.