Page 6 of Sins or Secrets
I’m free.
I don’t have to be Quinn Langdon anymore.
I can never go back to being the girl I was before hell took over, but I can take some triumph in that fact that I don’t need to be Riley Langdon’s wife anymore.
“There, it’s done.” He throws down the pen and it clatters to the floor.“This is not over, Quinn. I will get you back.Rest assured I will. You’re not going to embarrass me with a divorce.”
“You need to stay away from me.”
“Like fuck.” He grits his teeth.“Enjoy your freedom while you can.It won’t last forever. I’ll get you back.When I do, I’ll punish you for this.”
I don’t answer. It’s best not to.He means every single word.
He said when…
I pray not. I hope to never see this man again.However, I won’t be foolish or stupid enough to think this document we’ve signed is true freedom.Not for one second will I think his threats are empty and he won’t enact that promise of his.In his warped brain, he does love me and I just lit the fire that might scorch me if I get burned.
I grab the document and practically flee without looking back.
This document is a ticket. One that will allow me passage through the doors of this house.
One that will allow me to get gone and hope for the best.
My heels click against the marble floor as I rush away on shaky legs, passing a few of Riley’s lackeys on the way.Colton, the worst of the bunch, aka, the asshole, who’s always spying continues watching me and is possibly the last to see me go through the door.
Once outside I stop in my tracks, taking a moment to breathe in the afternoon air.It feels fresher. Like someone cleansed it, purified it.Or maybe it’s me.
I can finally breathe again.
My life belongs to me again. It’s just such a shame I had to make so many sacrifices along the way.
Like not seeing Aunt Lilly one last time before she died.
The plan now is to head to New York for my fresh start but I have one more funeral to attend before this month is over.
Dad’s was awful. Given the nature of the way he took his life, it was a closed casket funeral.
We had the worst relationship ever, one where I know he used me for gain and he was a dictator.He never showed me love, only that he ruled with an iron fist and I was to obey his rules.Then his rules became Riley’s.
His was the first funeral I’d ever gone to where I felt nothing.
Aunt Lilly’s funeral won’t be like that.I loved my beloved auntie with all my heart.
It was ten years ago that I last saw her in Wilmington.
It was ten years ago that my heart first broke.
It was ten years ago that I told Logan that lie and destroyed us forever.
That lie must have fuelled the cursed life that followed me after.
Going to Aunt Lilly’s funeral is going to open the floor for more than just the wakeup call of her death.It also means revisiting the past and the pain I left behind.
It means seeing Logan again.
Wilmington was where everything started and where my dreams ended before they even began.
I take one more look at the prison I used to live in andleave.
